update Dell and regulatory agencies worldwide plan to recall 4.1 million notebook batteries, a company representative confirmed.
Dell has agreed to purchase gaming PC maker Alienware, in a rare acquisition designed to improve Alienware's supply chain and boost Dell's standing among PC enthusiasts.
Because of a risk of fire, Apple Computer is recalling 1.8 million batteries that use Sony's battery cell technology, which also was at the root of Dell's historic recall last week.
Dell has moved to quash rumours that suggested the company had acquired rival PC vendor Alienware.
Dell will get a new chief executive officer for its 20th birthday.
A third of today's top 10 manufacturers could exit the PC business by 2007, according to a new report.
Big Blue's plan to sell its PC unit to China's Lenovo Group (formerly known as Legend) would be the latest example of a move toward consolidation as the market reaches maturity.
Hewlett-Packard executives are mulling plans to improve over the next 18 months the technology the company uses to manage its direct sales, while it continues with commercial printing efforts and acquisitions of software companies.
Competitors will try to use uncertainty to win customers from HP, analysts predict. It's not yet clear whether they will succeed.
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.
Is Dell -- the last major international PC manufacturer to use Intel processors exclusively -- testing the waters for home PCs based on Advanced Micro Devices processors?
Apple Computer's apparent cold shoulder to RealNetworks this week has once again put the company's "go it alone" strategy in the spotlight.
The Australian arm of Sony Computer has indicated it has no current plans to increase prices, despite rising component costs hitting prices in Japan and the US.
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