Lenovo snaps up fifth Dell exec
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(InfoWorld) - Lenovo Group Ltd. has snagged a fifth Dell Inc. executive in two weeks to help run its business in Asia. On Thursday Lenovo appointed Gerry Smith, 43, as senior vice president of its global supply chain, effective immediately. Smith was previously vice president in charge of Dell's Singapore design center and its displays unit. He replaces Liu Jun, who ran Lenovo's supply chain group for the past year and is taking a year's sabbatical, the company said. Smith is the latest in a string of executives that Lenovo has poached from Dell as it tries to beef up its PC business worldwide. Last week Lenovo appointed Dell's vice president of services for Asia-Pacific and Japan, Christopher Askew, to head a new services unit. A few days earlier it named David Schmook, a Dell vice president of marketing, to run a new business unit in Singapore that develops sales and product strategies. A week before that Lenovo hired David Miller, formerly president of Dell China, to become its president for Asia Pacific. And it named Sotaro Amano, Dell's corporate director for home and business sales in Japan, to be president of Lenovo Japan. Lenovo's president and chief executive officer, Bill Amelio, also joined the company from Dell, where he was senior vice president for Asia Pacific and Japan. Dell, in Round Rock, Texas, could not immediately be reached for comment Thursday morning. Lenovo bought IBM Corp.'s computer business in 2005, placing it third among PC makers behind Dell and Hewlett-Packard Co. It has struggled to compete since then, reporting poor financials and laying off workers. Dell has also been struggling lately, reporting a decline in profit of more than 50 percent for its most recent quarter. Separately on Thursday, Dell said it willÂ open a new call centerÂ in the Philippines early next year to provide additional tech support for U.S. customers. Â ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.
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Lenovo hired another Dell executive -- the fifth in two weeks -- to help run its business in Asia.
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DELL Inc announced last Wednesday that Michael Dell has assumed the duties of chief executive officer. Dell, who will retain his duties as chairman of the board, replaces Kevin Rollins.
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By Anne Krishnan, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Feb. 28--Lenovo might be planning 1,000 layoffs worldwide to cut costs in  the ultra-competitive PC market, according to newspaper and wire reports from  Asia.
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Dell on Tuesday added a completely new lineup to both its desktop and notebook offerings, which is aimed at small businesses with between 1 and 25 employees. Called Vostro, the systems include software designed for easing IT management tasks.
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Demand for Linux-based laptops drives the Dell announcement.
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By Bloomberg, AP and Staff Reports  Dell Inc., pummeled by battery recalls and disappointing earnings, said Wednesday that chairman and founder Michael Dell will return to the role of CEO, replacing Kevin Rollins, effective immediately.
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Shares in computer firm Dell rise 5% on the news that founder Michael Dell has returned to lead the firm.
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Lenovo Group Ltd. agreed to pay $1.25 billion for International Business Machines Corp.&#39;s personal computer business, making the Chinese company the world&#39;s third- largest PC maker and giving it a globally recognized brand.
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(InfoWorld) - Two and a half years afterÂ handing the chief executive title to his hand-picked successor, Kevin Rollins, Michael Dell is again running the company he founded. Dell struggled under Rollins' tenure, recentlyÂ losing its number-one PC vendor rankingÂ to a resurgent Hewlett-PackardÂ and weathering a formal investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange CommissionÂ into the company's accounting practices. Rollins has resigned his position as CEO and member of the company's board of directors, Dell said in a statement Wednesday. The company's board had decided that "there is no better person in the world to run Dell at this time than the man who created the Direct Model and who has built this company over the last 23 years," the statement said. Dell also remains chairman of the board. Rollins joined Dell in 1996 from management consulting firm Bain & Co. Prior to assuming the role of CEO in July 2004, he had served as Dell's president, chief operations officer and vice chairman. Â
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Dell Inc. will pay its former chief executive a severance package including $5 million in cash over the next two years, the computer maker disclosed Tuesday.  Kevin Rollins stepped down on Jan. 31 and was replaced by founder Michael Dell.
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Lenovo Group Ltd. will purchase IBMâs personal computer business for $1.25 billion including $650 million in cash and $600 million in stock plus $500 million of debt assumption.
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Michael Dell has returned to his spot as Chief Executive of Dell Inc. after the resignation of Kevin Rollins, the Texas computer maker said Wednesday.  The company said Dell would remain the company's chairman. Rollins resigned as a board member.
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Lenovo expanded its arrangement with Best Buy stores in a move to sell more notebook PCs to small business users.
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Gartner Inc. positioned Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) in the "Leaders  Quadrant" of its Magic Quadrant for Midrange  Enterprise Disk Arrays, 2H061 report, Dell  announced today.
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(InfoWorld) - Dell Inc. has stepped away from long-time supplier Intel Corp., launching one desktop that spurns the chipmaker's vPro business bundle and two others that use processors from chipmaking competitor Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD). Dell will still build its new Dimension E520 and XPS 210 desktop PCs with a choice of Intel's Pentium D or Core 2 Duo processors, the company said Tuesday. But for the first time, Dell will offer a choice of AMD's Athlon and Sempron chips in the new Dimension E521 and C521 models. For its new OptiPlex 745 business desktop, Dell said it developed its own bundle of business-friendly technologies instead of using Intel's vPro platform. Intel has seen strong sales in recent years for bundles of software and hardware such as its Centrino package for wireless notebook PCs. The company launched vPro in September as an effort to extend that strategy to business desktops. The company did not rule out the chance that it might add Intel's bundle to future desktops, but said vPro had to mature first. "We'll continue to work with Intel to help them refine the technology," said Dell's chief technology officer, Kevin Kettler. He spoke during the company's annual Technology Day meeting in New York. "There's still work to be done to drive that technology as a fundamental, strong value for our end customers." He compared the current vPro bundle to early iterations of hardware-based security in Trusted Platform Module (TPM) chips. "Dell was a slow adopter of TPM, and that's not because we didn't know about them or forgot to ask about them. There are some cases where we've ultimately used a technology but waited for it to mature a little bit before adopting it," Kettler said. Dell competitors Hewlett-Packard Co. and Gateway Inc. both launched vPro-enabled desktops last week, prompting some analysts to ask why Dell was lagging despite its close relationship to Intel. The answer is that Dell was assembling its own business bundle. The company's OptiPlex 745 boosts security and eases IT management while reducing power draw. Those are the same selling points as vPro, and the Dell system even uses similar components, like Intel's new Core 2 Duo processor and a TPM security chip. The difference is that Dell chooses and integrates the remaining pieces, retaining more control over the final product. In October, Dell will add its own Client Manager module to the system, allowing IT managers to remotely boot and troubleshoot thousands of client systems from a single site. Intel does that trick with its Active Management Technology (AMT). Likewise, Dell chose its own partner for security and password protection, using Wave Systems Corp.'s Embassy Trust Suite. Dell sells the OptiPlex 745 with a Core 2 Duo E6300 processor for US$899. The XPS 210 costs $1,190 for a premium entertainment package. The Dimension E520 and E521 will go on sale Wednesday for $719 and $329, both with Microsoft Corp.'s Windows XP Media Center OS, dual-core processors and multimedia options. The Dimension C521 will cost $359 but take up just half the space compared to the E520 and E521. In another announcement Tuesday, Dell is extending its relationship with EMC Corp., adding another five years to their partnership in selling storage products such as the Dell/EMC AX100 and CX3 UltraScale networked storage systems. Together, the two companies have sold 34,000 networked storage systems to 10,000 customers since founding their alliance in 2001.
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Lenovo plans to issue 5,000 leather-bound laptops, each individually numbered, to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the ThinkPad line. Price: $5,000.