Infrastructure

Dell added another big gun to its fast-growing retail arsenal Thursday, saying it would begin selling some of its personal computers at hundreds of Best Buy stores across the U.S. The partnership may come too late to give Dell an immediate boost during the holiday season, however, with the Round Roc...

Living up to a promise it made investors, Dell announced Tuesday it will return to buying back its stock now that an internal accounting investigation is concluded. The stock repurchases will begin this week with the buying back of $10 billion worth of shares, the Round Rock, Texas, computer giant s...

In a three-year deal worth US$4.5 billion, Dell is consolidating its far-flung advertising efforts into an integrated "new marketing model" that involves partnering with one agency: London-based WPP Group. Dell officials said they've been calling the new arrangement "Project DaVinci," a name intende...

In a move that could finally help clear up a cloud that has hung over the company for more than a year, Dell on Tuesday restated earnings for four full fiscal years and part of a fifth, cutting its net income over that time by $92 million in the process. Dell filed with the U.S. Securities and Excha...

SanDisk filed three patent infringement actions against 25 companies that manufacture, sell and import USB flash drives, CompactFlash cards, multimedia cards, MP3/media players and other removable flash storage products, the company announced Wednesday. The actions -- two filed in the United States ...

Setting its sights squarely on Research In Motion, Microsoft announced Tuesday its first dedicated mobile device management server aimed at enterprise users. The Microsoft System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 is a new mobile-dedicated server solution that helps companies manage Windows Mobile ph...

IBM's hardware sales fell in its third quarter, but stronger software sales and service contracts helped the company post positive results. Big Blue attributed the drop in hardware sales -- revenue fell 10 percent in total and 6 percent when adjusted for the sale of its printing line to $4.9 billion...

Google on Wednesday launched the fifth version of its enterprise search appliance with more security, better internal search result relevance and a wider reach across enterprise content management systems. The Version 5.0 upgrades of the Google Search Appliance allow business managers to search acro...

In a newly released analysis criticizing the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, market research company Gartner Dataquest said a "radical reform" of telecom policy is needed if the rollout of high-speed Internet services, or broadband, is ever to break out of the slow lane. "There's a firest...