Dell admits 'we blew it' for bullying blog
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After a former Dell sales manager posted bargain-hunting tips in a blog, Dell tried to have the blog deleted. Later, the company said that effort had been a mistake.
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A warning for us all A prominent IT security consultant has issued a mea culpa after learning an blog he set up on Blogspot and later abandoned was being used to push crudware.â¦
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I asked for advice in reducing vitriol on this blog, and a couple of readers helpfully identified a source of the problem: me. They and many others didnât like my suggestion to require commenters to use their real name. Tartuffo wrote: âAs someone who has been on the Internet since 1981, from alt.flame to the [...].
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We're delistening Accounting laggard Dell has received a delisting warning from Nasdaq officials.â¦
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Direct vs indirect war is over The channel model wars are over, and Dell lost, one industry pundit declared today.â¦
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Tech-support alumni around the Web continue to raise eyebrows and questions about the tale of the tech-support call that came a decade too late, but blogger "BIC" revealed further details about the incident by way of bolstering his claim.
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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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Chain backs down in T-shirt/First Amendment spat Best Buy has sent a snivelling apology to bloggers at Laughing Squid after it wrongly accused the website of promoting t-shirts that parody the firm.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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Blog: Hewlett-Packard allegedly obtained 'confidential' material related to Dell's printing business, according to Fortune magazine, citing unnamed former HP employees.
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Dell is allowing its customers to decline the unwanted software applications loaded on new PCs, after hundreds of users complained about such "bloatware" on a company blog.
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The WordPress.com blog-hosting service suffered a DoS (denial-of-service) attack that began Saturday and was still preventing users from logging in or posting to their blogs on Tuesday.Matt Mullenweg, spokesman for Automattic, confirmed that the service experienced a DoS attack with spikes of up to 6 gigabits of incoming traffic, which was making some blogs inaccessible for about five to 15 minutes on Tuesday. Though service had mostly been restored, Automattic, which maintains WordPress.com, was still working on returning service to normal levels on Tuesday afternoon, he said.&quot;Obviously that [is not good] and is pretty unusual for our service,&quot; he said. &quot;All our people who can are working on the issue.&quot;However, an employee at a New York-based company that has blogs hosted by WordPress.com suggested that some users were experiencing outages for longer than 15 minutes. The source, who asked not to be identified, said on Tuesday afternoon that users there were unable to log in to their blogs and post comments for &quot;most of the day.&quot; However, the blogs were still able to be viewed publicly.&quot;It&#39;s starting to come back to life now, slowly,&quot; said the source on Tuesday afternoon.WordPress.com users were notified via e-mail about the DoS attack. In the e-mail, the service provider said that the attack was affecting user log-in and causing some forums to be offline.Mullenweg said that the main Wordpress.com page was down longer than some blogs because &quot;we sacrificed it in order to keep blogs and our users up.&quot; However, the site&#39;s home page and Web site were up and running on Tuesday.He also provided a link to a graph that shows the traffic spikes to WordPress.com on the graph, where the service&#39;s traffic is displayed in a brown line.A DoS attack is an attempt to make a Web site or service unavailable to intended users by flooding the service or site with incoming data requests, such as e-mails. Motives for DoS attacks vary, but perpetrators mostly target companies with high-profile, highly trafficked Web sites.Joris Evers, a spokesman for security research and software company McAfee, said DoS attacks are still fairly common, although they have tapered off in recent years because technology has been developed that can head off such attacks before they affect service.Though he had not heard specifically of the WordPress attack, Evers said that it&#39;s possible the attack was mounted by someone &quot;who was upset about something that was written on a WordPress blog, and they decided to take action against that.&quot;
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Refuses to say why After facing criticism for hosting a blog that advocated the killing of gays and lesbians, Google first defended the importance of free speech, then offered a banner warning the site may be offensive to the faint of heart, and then settled on removing the site altogether.â¦
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Blog: Hewlett-Packard obtained 'confidential' material related to Dell's printing business, according to Fortune magazine, citing unnamed former HP employees.
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Two and a half years ago, I wrote an article entitled Intel: The one-hit wonder. Has anything changed since I wrote that story and is the conclusion still valid?
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By RACHEL BECK Associated Press  NEW YORK -- Michael Dell offered up some harsh advice a decade ago on how to fix struggling Apple Computer, words that now provide an ironic sting for the newly minted CEO of his own slumping company.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Dell is winning over Wall Street again - but some of its customers remain unhappy with the beleaguered PC giant. Dell on Thursday reported preliminary revenue of $14.8 billion for the quarter ended Aug. 3, up from $14.1 billion a year ago. The No. 2 PC maker also conceded that a shortage of laptop parts continues to prevent it from filling some orders.