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• Dell Australia claims victory for direct sales approach

  In what it claims is a victory for the direct sales model, Dell Computer is crowing about recently-released figures from IDC that show it has taken the title of number one Australian PC supplier from long-time supremo, Compaq Computer.

• Intel eyeing storage white boxes?

  What market will Intel make over next? Experts say storage.

• Lenovo needs to rethink strategy: IDC

  Cashed-up PC manufacturer Lenovo has more work to do to reach pole position in Australia and New Zealand despite strong global growth, particularly in developing economies.

• Bleak forecast for PC vendors

  Australian computer vendors can expect poor sales for the second quarter of 2001, according to forecasts outlined in a report on the PC market's performance, released by IT industry analysts International Data Corporation (IDC).

• Consumers blamed for sluggish PC sales

  Australian PC sales have tumbled considerably in the second quarter of this year, according to an IDC report, which attributes the problem to consumers not upgrading their PC's.

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• Red Hat: Challenging the Unix crown

  Gus Robertson, Red Hat's vice president for South Asia-Pacific, wants to displace Unix and not Windows as the main enterprise OS but does the Linux vendor have what it takes?

• Supercomputers getting super-duper

  It's getting hard to keep a place on the list of the world's fastest supercomputers.

• Are sharks circling HP?

  Competitors will try to use uncertainty to win customers from HP, analysts predict. It's not yet clear whether they will succeed.

• Is the dust on your computer toxic?

  According to new research into chemical residue found in the dust collecting on computers and other electronics devices, the PC that you're using to read this story could pose a long-term threat to your health.

• A billion PC users on the way

  By the end of the decade, a billion people will be clicking away at computers, but generating a profit out of newly wired portions of the world is going to take a lot of work.

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• Bleak forecast for PC vendors

  Australian computer vendors can expect poor sales for the second quarter of 2001, according to forecasts outlined in a report on the PC market's performance, released by IT industry analysts International Data Corporation (IDC).

• Supercomputers getting super-duper

  It's getting hard to keep a place on the list of the world's fastest supercomputers.

• Palm deal harks back, looks forward

  News analysis: Palm is hoping that lightning will strike twice with its acquisition of Handspring, but the reunion may not be an easy one.

• DAS the stuff: 5 RAID units tested

  It's affordable and easy to manage -- two qualities you rarely hear mentioned about storage. We test your RAID options.

• Palm to acquire rival Handspring

  Palm will buy rival Handspring for approximately US$169 million in an effort to strengthen its grip on the market for handheld devices.

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