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What to expect from Dell’s quarterly progress repo

27 May 2010

(Credit:
Dell)

Though Dell has not offered forward-looking guidance to investors for the last several quarters (and is expected to continue the tradition), investors will likely hammer Gladden and/or Dell with questions about how the faltering economic environment is going to affect the PC makers’ outlook for the critical fourth-quarter holiday season and into next year.

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China’s Firefox browser has one feature the West l

24 May 2010

What is the Live Margins feature? It’s easier seen than explained, and can be viewed here. 17Lamp.net translates:
17Lamp.net reports on one big feature that China’s version of the
Firefox browser has that the rest of the world still lacks: Live Margins.
Via LinuxToday.
It looks really cool, as it blends services from different Web sites into one [...]

Ta ta, Tesla

20 May 2010

Tesla Motors, a start-up focused on high-performance electric
cars, appears to be in a bit of trouble.
Although Tesla just raised an additional $40 million, it is asking for $400 million in low-interest loans from the federal government as part of the $25 billion loan package to the auto industry.

As the old saying goes, “When the [...]

Social networkers want TV airtime

18 May 2010

“Just as video entertainment is moving fluidly across various screens, so is social media,” Jason Blackwell, a senior ABI Research analyst, said in a statement. “We’ve seen that consumers find increased value through shared entertainment experiences and want to explore and deepen these experiences through communities of interest, and that’s what’s social TV will ultimately [...]

Gates-Seinfeld act 2 Beautiful minds

15 May 2010

Having bumped into each other at Shoe Circus, the two protagonists decide to walk the tightrope and make a road movie.
My Las Vegas 51’s baseball cap goes off to the people at ad agency Crispin, Porter and Bogusky who persuaded Microsoft, in the person of Bill Gates himself, to admit to at least some of [...]

Windows 7 gets down to business

03 May 2010

Although Microsoft has been criticized by some enthusiasts worried that their voices weren’t being heard early enough to affect the design of Windows 7, Schuster notes that businesses have had an early say in Windows 7, through efforts such as a desktop advisory council.

“We know the stop and start nature of Vista created big challenges for our customers and partners,” Microsoft senior director Gavriella Schuster said in an interview this week.

(Credit:
ZDNet