Dell’s Q3 profit drops 54 percent
Dell reported third-quarter profits on Thursday that were down 54 percent from this time last year, though the company said it was encouraged by a slight uptick in sales from the prior quarter.
Dell’s net income for the three months to Oct. 30 was $337 million, or $0.17 per share, down [...]
Dell reported third-quarter profits on Thursday that were down 54 percent from this time last year, though the company said it was encouraged by a slight uptick in sales from the prior quarter.
Dell’s net income for the three months to Oct. 30 was $337 million, or $0.17 per share, down from $727 million, or $0.37 a share, in the same quarter last year, the company said. Revenue declined 15 percent to $12.9 billion.
Google released its Chrome operating system to the open-source community on Thursday and said it has designed the netbook OS to be faster, simpler and more secure than existing ones.
Several years after open source began to take the world by storm, the question of how to make money in the genre still remains an issue, with a prominent Novell official Wednesday advising caution for those considering a move to open source.
LOS ANGELES — Microsoft’s Surface touch computer may be generating more oohs and ahs than some of the company’s other recent technologies, but the product has yet to generate rabid interest among programmers.
Google is hosting an event today to offer the first official glimpse at the Chrome operating system. Chrome has ignited enthusiasm in an operating system market that has been largely stagnant for years. Google may succeed in shaking things up a bit.
AOL, which will be spun off from parent company Time Warner next month, wants to cut its staff by about a third, and is giving employees a chance to volunteer to join the ranks of the unemployed.
AOL has announced a “voluntary layoff program” that will run between Dec. 4 and Dec. 11 and that seeks up to 2,500 employees willing to resign. The company’s current headcount is about 6,900.
Processor makers ARM and MIPS Technologies are both aiming to simplify and accelerate the use of netbooks, MIDs (mobile Internet devices), set-top boxes, and picture frames that run on Google’s Android software platform.
Earlier this week, ARM rolled out the Solution Center for Android, which provides software, training, and hardware to companies developing Android-based products.
Amazon.com is to high performance computing what McDonald’s is to food: fast, cheap but with a limited menu.
But while some HPC users may refer to Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service as a “CPU farm” or a “CPU bin,” there are aspects of the company’s model and pricing scheme that may be having an impact on supercomputing centers that have been typically been the domain of researchers.
The National Security Agency (NSA) worked with Microsoft on the development of Windows 7, an agency official acknowledged this week during testimony before Congress.
After losing two lower court decisions, a group of tech workers are turning to the U.S. Supreme Court in their fight against a federal decision that extended foreign student visas from one year to 29 months.
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