Despite drastic cost cutting measures being made at Dell's US operations, such as leave without pay for staff, the PC maker's Australian arm will not follow suit with local redundancies, according to a local spokesperson.
Dell is set to reveal its Australian retail partner tomorrow, with observers expecting a considerable market shake-up in wake of the announcement.
Dell is targetting small business with a series of laptops, desktop and associated services to cure integration blues for organisations with less than 10 employees.
Victorians will now be able to ditch their unwanted, end-of-life technology equipment in a green fashion following the launch of a state IT take-back program -- with support from big name vendors including Apple, Dell and HP.
What does last night's dinner have in common with your old PC? They get thrown out when their value flatlines. ZDNet Australia asks why Australians hoard old PCs.
Are cheap external USB video cards good enough to power an extra monitor or five, and what are their pitfalls? Won't handle 3D acceleration? Take up valuable CPU cycles? Leave dirty dishes around your desk and have a bad odour?
We take one of Intel's new 34nm SSD drives for a spin and find it a worthy hard disk replacement, delivering massive speed jumps when loading software. But watch out for a penalty when writing data.
Sure, better 3G coverage is good for competition, but it's what you do with the 3G that will ultimately make the difference. As Vodafone expands its network footprint, the practice of selling 3G-enabled netbooks like mobile phones should really resonate with end users.
Intel demonstrated a working version of USB 3.0 at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas last week. Here's what we can look forward to with the new technology.
It's nigh on impossible to hear a bad word about virtualisation software at the moment, but is it good news for everyone?
A third of today's top 10 manufacturers could exit the PC business by 2007, according to a new report.
When you're in charge of buying 2,000 desktops should you go for an assortment of vendors, or stick to just one? City of Melbourne's desktop services manager, Ashe Potter, says using a single supplier is cheaper, easier and less hassle to manage.
There are as always exceptions, but most ICT vendors are simply not doing the right thing by the thousands of SME customers in Australia and New Zealand.
After a year on the job, Sun's CEO says the company is relevant again but still has problems to fix. In this interview, he admits losing sight of the developer community towards the end of the 1990s, and making what he described as a very bad decision about the company's commitment to Solaris.
Blade servers were once the saviours of the datacentre. Expandability was king. But do blade servers still make sense today? We find out if they're still worth it.
Buying a budget notebook is a tricky task, since the value for money offered by models in the lower price range can vary immensely. We've put four head-to-head to make your choice easier.
Following the trend of all-in-one desktops, the Dell Inspiron One 19 is aimed at the budget market and clearly shows in both design and performance.
Managing data storage is just as much of a task (or greater) as managing the servers themselves. It makes sense to centralise management in larger organisations wherever possible. Enter the storage area network (SAN).
Blade servers were once the saviours of the datacentre. Expandability was king. But do blade servers still make sense today? We find out if they're still worth it.
What's the best mid-range server on the market? We put machines from Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Lenovo through their paces in our labs.
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