Dell Wins Contract for City Schools
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GLASGOW City Council has awarded a GBP15.5m contract to Dell to provide computer equipment and support services for the city's primary schools and nurseries.
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By Tiffany Erickson Deseret Morning News  Davis School District leaders want students to get the most out of the district's computers and taxpayers' money by refurbishing older computers and giving them to students.
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An Australian city has signed a contract to replace Microsoft &#39;s Windows-desktop system on several thousand PCs with Sun Microsystems&#39;s products, Sun officials said Friday.
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PC maker Dell Inc. said on Wednesday that founder and Chairman Michael Dell would become chief executive, effective immediately, replacing former CEO Kevin Rollins.
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Dell Inc. has signed a deal with a U.K. mobile phone retailer to distribute free laptops with the purchase of a broadband Internet access subscription, continuing the company&#39;s push into the retail market.
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A trip by CNET News.com editors and reporters to Dell's headquarters in Texas yields a bonanza of information about the PC maker's plans and operations.
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Dell Inc. said yesterday that it would build its third US manufacturing plant in North Carolina, employing at least 1,500 people within five years. The new facility, scheduled to open in the fall of 2005 at a site to be determined, will produce desktop computers.
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The US computer giant Dell announced a deal Monday to sell its products through Gome, China&#39;s largest consumer electronics retailer.
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By Paul B. Johnson, High Point Enterprise, N.C.  Jun. 6--TRIAD -- Dell Inc. could continue to receive its full incentives package from state of North Carolina even if the company lays off workers at its Triad plant.
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By Mary Perez, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 9--MOSS POINT -- Families with students in the Moss Point School District will be able to buy a reconditioned computer for $200 or a new Dell computer for $500, and Cisco Systems will guarantee the loans for those who finance the purchase.
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New Dell R&D facility in Bangalore can house up to 1000 employees.
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Dell Inc  said it would sell personal computers, printers, monitors and ink supplies in 1,400 Staples Inc  stores in the United States, its latest move into retail after breaking from 23 years of selling directly to consumers.
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By Crayton Harrison, The Dallas Morning News  Dec. 13--Dell Inc. has hired former Electronic Data Systems Corp. executive Steve Schuckenbrock to lead its global services business, the computer maker said Tuesday.   Plano-based EDS announced Mr. Schuckenbrock's departure in May.
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Royal Philips Electronics has signed a services contract with computer maker Dell Inc., which will manage the electronics company&#39;s desktop environment.
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Google on Thursday confirmed a long-rumored deal that will bundle some of its software on Dell Inc.&#039;s personal computers, providing the online search engine leader with another potentially potent weapon in its fierce rivalry with Microsoft Corp.
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(InfoWorld) - Underlining its expansion from online to retail sales, Dell launched desktop and notebook PCs Tuesday at Macy's department store in New York. The company announced nine new Inspiron desktops and notebooks and an XPS M1330 notebook, all available in a choice of eight shell colors. "The Dell of today is vastly different from the Dell of six months ago or even last week," said Alex Gruzen, senior vice president of Dellâs consumer product group. "We're here at Macy's in New York City. That alone is different for Dell, being in a department store or any kind of retail setting at all." Dell even set up a portable kiosk to take orders for the new PCs in a temporary space it will occupy at Macy's for the next two weeks, he said. The new Inspiron notebooks cost $749 for the model 1521 to $999 for the model 1720, with a choice of processors from Intel or Advanced Micro Devices. The Inspiron 1420 comes with an additional choice of Microsoft's Windows Vista or the Ubuntu Linux operating system, for $799. The Inspiron desktops start at $349 for models 530, 530s, 531, and 531s, all supporting up to 500GB of disk space to store digital media files, with the model 530 offering a choice between Windows and Linux. The XPS M1330 notebook costs $1,299 with a 13.3-inch widescreen display, weighs under 4 pounds, and comes with a one-year subscription to Dell's Online Backup service, where users can store 10GB of files on Dell servers for remote data access. In an effort to bolster its sliding market share and quarterly profits,Â Dell began selling certain PC models at Wal-MartÂ retail stores on June 10, marking the first time it had strayed from the direct sales model. Dell rose to prominence by cutting its costs through eliminating retail middlemen and selling its PCs through only its Web site, phone lines, and catalogs. That system began to fail in 2006, as competitors cut costs and Hewlett-Packard passed Dell to become the world's largest PC vendor. Now Dell is in the midst of a corporate reorganization announced May 31 that includesÂ laying off 10 percent of its 88,100 workers. Dell hopes its new retail presence will allow it to fix a strategic mistake. By trying to beat its competitors through low prices in recent years, Dell found itself spending all its publicity efforts promoting its least exciting products, Gruzen said. Selling PCs in retail stores gives Dell an opportunity to showcase its premium PC models and bring new luster to its corporate image at the same time. "This is really just a hint of what we're doing to get these exciting new products into customers' hands," Gruzen said. "We have a broader retail strategy, and over the coming months, we will announce more partnerships, both with Wal-Mart and with other retailers." Also on Tuesday, Dell unveiled a new marketing tagline -- "yours is here" -- that shares many values with HP's "the computer is personal again" campaign. Both companies are increasing the number of options they give customers to personalize PCs and bundling tools that make it easier to handle personal tasksÂ such asÂ digital photos and music as well as business jobs. Dell emphasized those increased choices with its color options for each PC, including pink, yellow, green, red, and blue, as well as standard white and black. An increasing number of PC vendors will soon begin to follow that pattern, trying to differentiate themselves with flashy style and design instead of solely through technical detailsÂ such asÂ processing power, according to a report released this week by Forrester Research. "The consumer PC industry is entering the Age of Style, a time in which radical form factor innovations, increased aesthetic diversity, and consumer choice and personalization will determine which models, and which PC vendors, win or lose," Forrester analyst J.P. Gownder said in the report.
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PC maker Dell and software company Microsoft have formed a development partnership to improve the way customers manage systems across the enterprise.