Scott Ferguson

AUSTIN, Texas – The release of Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system in 2009, along with the subsequent release of Office 2010, is helping to drive a corporate refresh among many enterprises, although it could take businesses years to fully switch from Windows XP, said CEO Michael Dell. While speaking at the company’s annual meeting with […]

AUSTIN, Texas – Although his company made its reputation and profits on shipping millions of PCs worldwide for 25 years, Michael Dell is now more focused on how profitable his company’s PCs are rather than the sheer number of clients that move out the door. In an interview with reporters following the company’s annual meeting […]

AUSTIN, Texas – CEO Michael Dell is seeing the demand for IT hardware, especially commercial client PCs, beginning to pick up in 2010, following the global recession of 2009, with both small businesses and large enterprises preparing to reinvest in newer technology. Michael Dell and the company’s executives gathered here June 24 for a meeting […]

NEW YORK – Samsung officially released its latest Spinpoint hard disk drive – the F4 – which contains fewer moving parts than previous HDDs, making it more reliable and less noisy compared to previous Spinpoint models. At a June 14 event here to highlight the company’s innovations around 3D and high-definition televisions and other consumer […]

Dell is looking to offer state governments a health care check-up. On June 9, Dell officially launched its latest IT services initiative, called Dell State Health Services. Spending on IT health care is expected to increase about 4 percent in 2010, according to Gartner, and Dell and other service vendors are looking to expand their […]

IBM Research is headed to Rio. On June 8, IBM and the Brazilian government are planning to announce that IBM will build a new research lab in Brazil. While the final location of the new facility is still being determined, IBM staff are already beginning work at campuses in the large Brazilian cities of Rio […]

Hewlett-Packard, the world’s largest producer of PCs, is recalling an additional 54,000 lithium ion batteries used in laptops after reports surfaced that the batteries are prone to overheating and can catch fire. HP, along with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, issued the additional recall on May 21. The recall involves several models from HP’s […]

The banking and financial industries, along with health care providers and large government agencies, are helping to push IT spending past the $2 trillion mark this year, according to research firm Gartner. For 2010, Garter is predicting that IT spending will total $2.4 trillion, a 4.1 percent increase from 2009, when enterprises and small businesses […]

IBM’s Robert Morris likes to think he works in the world’s largest laboratory. However, unlike when he oversaw research at IBM’s Almaden Research Center or worked on the company’s ThinkPad notebook and its early hard disk drive storage systems, Morris’ lab is no longer confined within the walls of IBM or academia. Instead, Morris and […]

The market for netbooks or mini-notebooks is still expanding, with shipments expected to reach 58 million units in 2010, as consumers and business users continue to look for low-cost computing alternatives, according to a report from research firm ABI. In 2009, netbook shipments topped 36 million units, which was higher that ABI’s original forecast of […]