Earnings Preview: Dell faces grim market in 4Q
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- Earnings Preview: Dell faces grim market in 4Q
- Masses to Marvell at tiny wall plug computer?
- Brian Krebs on Computer Security
- Sector Snap: PC makers down on report
Earnings Preview: Dell faces grim market in 4Q
The Associated Press -
is scheduled to report its fiscal fourth-quarter results after the market closes Thursday. The following is a summary of key developments and analyst opinion about the period. VERVIEW: The last three months of 2008 were the worst in about six years for the PC industry. According to IDC a technology research group computer shipments declined in the quarter for the first time since 2002 as consumers and businesses curbed technology spending. In early November Dell responded to the spreading economic crisis with a hiring freeze to last at least through the fiscal fourth quarter. The Round Rock Texas-based PC maker also offered severance packages to workers for voluntarily leaving the company and encouraged almost all its employees to take up to five unpaid days off. Dell said the moves would help it cut costs by $3 billion or more over the next few years.
Masses to Marvell at tiny wall plug computer?
CNET News CA -
The idea is to make make a high-performance ultracompact and green computer that consumers can plug right into a wall power socket. Because the SheevaPlug draws less than a tenth of the power of a typical PC being used as a home server according to Marvell it can be left on all the time. And although it is very similar to a powerline adapter in shape and size the SheevaPlug computer contains a gigahertz-class processor to offer PC-like performance. The current SheevaPlug model uses a Marvell Kirkwood processor running at 1. 2GHz is equipped with 512 megabytes of flash memory storage and 512MB DRAM and connects to a network via Gigabit Ethernet. The computer has one USB 2. 0 port that can be used to host directly attached storage or to connect to other networking and storage devices.
Brian Krebs on Computer Security
Washington Post United States -
I just finished an interesting battle with this one. n Sunday I got a call from a man asking if I could look at his computer ASAP as there were serious problems with it. He is active in the market and needed his computer for Monday’s session. Almost none of my usual anti-malware or diagnostics would install. Some of the behavior was typical of a rogue security product but there was no apparent rogue application. I worked from 1PM until 8PM to get that machine cleaned.
Sector Snap: PC makers down on report
Forbes NY -
After visiting Asia where most PCs are made the analysts led by Kathryn Huberty now expect PC revenue to drop 24 percent this year and unit volume to fall 11 percent. They had previously expected a 10 percent revenue decline.
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