Archive for November, 2009

Dell Working Overtime to Launch New Android Mobile Devices

As announced earlier, Dell has had its first smartphone in development for some time and was expected since much of the executive leadership for its consumer division is now led by a number of product marketers from Motorola. Dell is now planning a follow-on Mobile Internet Device (aka Streak) with a 5" screen...

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Dell / Dell.com Black Friday Roundup

This year retailers like Dell.com have cracked down on the leaks of their Black Friday (BF) and CyberMonday advertisements. Not willing to give up, we finally tracked down the circular and here the best of the deals that you can expect to find at Dell.com next Friday!

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Dell Zino HD Available; Media Center Goodness Starting at $229

For a lovely $229 price tag, you can now go to Dell.com to purchase the Zino HD mini form-factor PC. As mentioned the other day here at the Dell Observer, this PC should be able to handle media streaming and work great with a large screen tv due to its HDMI ports and the AMD Neo processor.

Check out what PC Magazine has to say here. To shop, visit Dell.com.

Dell To Report Earnings; Sales Decline Expected

Dell Inc. reports earnings next week and analysts are expecting the company to report a continued decline in sales and earnings for its third fiscal quarter.

The personal computer maker will report results for the quarter on Nov. 19. Analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters estimate Dell will earn 28 cents a share on $13.1 billion in sales for its third quarter. During the same period a year ago, Dell earned 37 cents a share on revenue of $15.2 billion.

Investors are looking forward to hearing how Dell’s strategy shift is progressing in light of a highly competitive environment with HP, Acer and Lenovo. In September, the company acquired Perot Systems Corp. for $3.9 billion establishing Dell as a player in the information technology services market.

During the quarter, Dell also lost its place as the #2 PC company in the world to Taiwan’s Acer Inc. (2353.TW, ACEIY). Acer’s PC shipments rose 23.6% to 12.5 million units, giving it 15.4% of the market. By contrast, Dell’s shipments fell 6.7% to 10.3 million units which equated to a 12.8% market share.

Both companies continue to trail H-P in worldwide PC sales.

Dell still maintained the top spot in the U.S., with 4.7 million shipments and a 26.2% market share. However, those results were colored by the company’s U.S. shipments falling almost 9% from a year ago.

Black Friday Deals: Dell 20″ Desktop for $499 at Staples

‘Black Friday’ (the Friday after Thanksgiving) is the traditional start of the holiday shopping season. If standing on line to get incredible deals is your thing, we here at Observer Publishing want to help you find the right deals for you to wake up early for.

The staples circular has leaked and there’s 2 strong deals that will be available that day:

Dell Desktop PC w/AMD Athlon X2 215 Processor, 4GB RAM, 640GB Hard Drive, 20-inch LCD Monitor – $499.98 (save $100)

Dell Studio 15.6″ Laptop w/Intel Core 2 Duo T6600 Processor, 4GB RAM, 500GB Hard Drive – $599.98 (save $150)

HP Acquires 3Com; Does Dell Have Counter?

HP announced today that it is purchasing networking equipment maker 3Com for $2.7 billion and adding a new set of products which could help it fight in enterprise / data center customer opportunities.

The deal, however, puts even greater distance between HP and Dell both in revenues, but in breadth of product offerings. Dell followed HP’s aquisition of enterprise service provider EDS with the purchase of Perot systems. In the networking space, there does not seem to be a clear “me too” deal. Networking behemoth Cisco would likely be the aquirer, not an acquiree and its unlikely that it would want to enter the computer systems space.

Stay tuned, intrepid Observer readers – we’ll be on the lookout for possible targets as Dell looks to catch up to HP once again!