Seven men connected by friendship or business association were arrested this week for allegedly participating in insider trading, the Federal Bureau (FBI) of Investigation announced in a candid press release. These latest arrests are the most recent developments in "Operation Perfect Hedge," the FBI's systematic targeting of insider trading in the hedge fund industry that began more than four years ago.
Just when you thought the boutique system builder market had grown a bit state, Dell jumps in to try and freshen things up with its new Alienware X51, its smallest gaming desktop to date. The X51 is a small form factor (SFF) system with an equally small starting price of $699. It's built around Intel's second generation Core i3/i5/i7 platform and features an Nvidia GT or optional GTX class graphics card.
Michael Dell’s never met a sound bite hit didn’t want to make, yet when it comes to Ultrabooks, his company’s been playing it cool and quiet, content to wait on the sidelines and size up the competition – until yesterday. Dell finally jumped on the Ultrabook bandwagon late last night with the Dell XPS 13, an ultraportable with – surprise, surprise! – a thin and lightweight build, a quick-waking SSD drive and a long-lasting 8 hour battery. Yeah, the Ultrabook schpiel is yawn-inducing at this point, we know, but Dell’s managed to shove some decent features into the XPS 13.
Dell entered the netbook market with the Inspiron Mini 9 a little over three years ago, at a time when these small form-factor mobile computers were a hot commodity. Entering the netbook market wasn’t so much a choice as a a necessity back then. But with the halcyon days of netbooks now well behind us, that’s no longer the case. In fact, things have changed so much that Dell has decided to exit the netbook market.
The marketing mavens at Dell are singing praise about the OEM's new Alienware Aurora system, which they describe as "a serenade to raw gaming power." The rebuilt Aurora debuts on Dell today starting at $2,199 and is supposed to be "without a doubt, the most advanced Alienware desktop to date," and not just because it's sitting pretty on a Sandy Bridge-E foundation.
Pay a visit to Dell's once lively product page for the Streak 7 tablet and you'll be informed that it's "no longer available online." From there, it would be easy to assume Dell isn't all that infatuated with Android, or the mobile market in general, but you know what they say when you assume something. So, what's the deal with Dell?
Dell has been going all out at the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) the last few years, but this time it’s going to be playing it much more cool. In fact, it will be ditching most of the heavy-hitting demos that have been the company’s signature. This might be an indication that Dell is looking to tighten its belt as sales continue to slump.
For better or worse, Asus has every intention of riding the growing tablet wave, no matter what else you might have heard. And what we heard earlier this week was that Asus, along with Acer, Dell, and Hewlett-Packard, were likely to bow out of the tablet market now that Amazon and Barnes & Noble have both joined the fray. That prompted speculation that maybe Asus and others were giving up competing for Android and were going to wait for Windows 8, perhaps in a mad grab for enterprise dollars. Nope, that's wrong too.
Computer system builders like Hewlett-Packard and Dell may look to pull out of the tablet market now that both Amazon and Barnes & Noble cannonballed the shallow end of the pool. Over in the deep end is Apple with its full-size (9.7-inch) iPad line, the only one that seems to be able to stay afloat at the $500 mark and above. Is it worth trying to compete anymore?Connect with MaximumPC
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