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• Dell should make Apple hardware: Gartner

  Increasing component costs and pressure to cut its prices mean Apple's best bet for long-term success is to quit the hardware business and license the Mac to Dell, analyst firm Gartner claimed on Tuesday.

• Gartner expects strong sales growth from Dell Australia

  Australian figures to be released later this week for PC sales are expected to mimic worldwide trends, according to research company Gartner.

• Apple grows Australian market share

  Apple's share of the Australian personal computer market has jumped sharply in the last year, according to statistics released this week by Australia's two largest technology analyst firms.

• Extreme makeover: Dell revamps support services

  As Dell continues to battle shrinking growth in PC and server sales, the PC giant is revamping its support offering.

• Apple, Dell wind down battery recall efforts

  Apple and Dell have managed to track down and replace the vast majority of their potentially "exploding" batteries, which has allowed airlines to lift the restrictions placed on the use of notebooks in-flight.

Features and Case Studies (45)

• Storage-starved SMBs get pampered

  Australian SMBs are hungry for storage, yet have been left underserved by major storage vendors. However, increasing demand for digital marketing and fast access to information is causing vendors to take notice of this once-neglected sector.

• Who guards the guards: Storage

  Making predictions about the storage market isn't difficult. Suggest that capacities will go up and costs will go down and you shouldn't go too far wrong.

• Managing your move into mobility

  With the benefits of mobile data access well and truly taken for granted, the spectre of several false starts is finally far behind the market for smaller smartphone and PDA styled mobile devices.

• Between church and state

  Gartner's impartiality is questioned after revelations that Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and Michael Dell, among others, owns shares in the research firm.

• Cranking up corporate clock speeds

  Concepts such as utility computing, Web services and business process management shouldn't be considered in isolation but rather as components of the real-time enterprise (RTE).

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  The greening of Dell

  At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Florida, Dell CEO Michael Dell talks to Gartner research analysts about the company's vision for green IT. Dell explains his company's commitment to being carbon neutral, and his plan to build more energy-efficient desktop and server products.

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  Michael Dell talks turnaround strategy

  At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Florida, Michael Dell talks to Gartner research analysts about the company's renewed focus on customer-centricity, such as the company's plan to introduce new notebooks and a move into on-demand streaming.

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• Dell customers want XP, not Vista

  After adding it back as an option for small businesses, Dell offers the older OS on consumer machines in response to demand in the US.

• Lenovo creates Ideas for PC market

  Lenovo is moving away from its business origins with the launch of a new consumer oriented PC line, dubbed the "Idea" range, later this month.

• Windows links to new storage standard

  Microsoft releases a driver for the emerging iSCSI specification that lets its operating system share storage gear using Ethernet networks.

• What's next for wireless

  The frequency is changing from wired working to a wireless world. Can this new wave of technology help you gain the cutting edge?

• Handhelds continue steady slide

  Once the toast of the gadget market, personal digital assistants have been losing some of their fizz and in 2002 continued a steady slide.

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