Dell makes exploited hamster cry
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Flat panels lead to a cleaner Earth The only thing worse than the "Wisdom of Crowds" may be the "Graffiti of Crowds."â¦
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Danger, Kevin Rollins! Dell's moves to lower prices, hire more understandable customer service reps and stop product fires do not appear to be helping its immediate fortunes.â¦
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Homer Simpson-style rage attack A sys admin last week pleaded guilty to attempting to disrupt the power grid in California by shutting down a data centre that managed the state's electrical supply.â¦
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The class-action lawsuit filed against Dell Computer on Wednesday makes a complex case, and does not provide much evidence to back up some of its principal pillars other than citing Internet blogs and press reports. Intel is involved, though only peripherally. There are leaps of logic one must take to accept its premises. But whatever the case's outcome, it has already damaged Dell.
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(InfoWorld) - A newly identified malicious program not only messes up its victims' computers, it taunts them too. The program, called the BotVoice.A Trojan was first spotted by security vendor Panda Software last week. It is a Trojan horse program, which the victim must download first. But once installed, it gets nasty. The Trojan soon sets to work trying to delete everything from the victim's hard drive, while at the same time endlessly repeating an audible message, apparently designed to taunt the victim. "You have been infected; I repeat, you have been infected and your system files have been deleted. Sorry. Have a nice day and bye bye," the Trojan says. It does this by using a text-reading program that is part of the Windows operating system, Panda said. Users of Windows 2003, XP, 2000, NT, ME, 98, and 95 are all at risk. Unlike a virus, BotVoice.A does not jump from computer to computer on its own, but spreads via p-to-p (peer-to-peer) networks or storage devices such as CD-ROMs or USB memory drives. The Trojan is unusual because unlike most malware written these days, it appears to be designed to perform mindless vandalism, said Roger Thompson, chief technology officer with Exploit Prevention Labs. "I haven't seen brainless vandalism like that for years," he said via instant message. "The good news is that such a Trojan will never be widespread, because everything is profit-oriented now, and there's not a lot of money in taunting someone."
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Tell your friends Those of you doubting Dell's commitment to improved customer service ought to have a look at how it's handling a gaming PC debacle.â¦
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A newly identified malicious program not only messes up its victims' computers, it taunts them too.
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By Crayton Harrison, The Dallas Morning News  Sep. 12--Dell Inc.'s latest snafu has put yet another dent in the Texas computer giant's once sterling reputation.
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Dell Inc. is offering free replacements of the displays on nine popular notebook PC models, responding to customers who created a Web site to complain that some LCD screens developed a one pixel-wide vertical line.
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Anything Jobs can do... Computer giant Dell stunned a Reg reader seeking a processor upgrade when it told him he might want to consider a "Mac".â¦
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So green they crap leprechauns A lot of PC makers are riding the going green pony pretty hard these days, but the folks at Dell â you've got to give them credit â are making a show out of boiling the poor thing down to eco-friendly glue.â¦
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Blog: A blog post at Consumerist.com offering tips on buying from Dell draws a nasty cease-and-desist letter from the company's attorney--and then a chastened apology from a Dell manager.
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By Hudson Sangree, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 7--As Grizzly Flats resident Dennis Sheehan tells his story, he has lived a computer buyer's worst nightmare after purchasing a defective PC from Gateway last year.
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Jealousy or Simplicity? The "new" Dell apparently includes an ample helping of feistiness. The hardware maker has slung an aggressive attack against HP's blade server strategy via the corporate blog.â¦
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Don&#39;t have Windows XP? Listen up anyway, because there&#39;s a lesson to learn, not to mention sly put downs you can use to annoy your Windows-XP-using-friends so they&#39;ll finally break down and admit
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A civil suit filed in Florida by Dell and its Alienware subsidiary is giving insight into the enormous sums of money that can be made by creating Web pages full of advertising links.
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Dell SP2008WFP: 20-inch wide-screen LCD monitor with Webcam