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.
Posted by Admin Date: Thursday, November 12, 2009
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!
Posted by Admin Date: Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Dell, HP Customers Upset With Windows 7 Delays
Computerworld reports that Dell & HP customers are angry due to delays in the shipping of Windows 7 media as promised under the Windows 7 Upgrade Option program. The program is supposed to ship replacement media to customers on or about October 22nd, the date of the Windows 7 launch. Customers are being notified that their orders are on backorder and could take many more weeks.
The Upgrade Option Program is designed to help PC manufacturers address possible slowdowns in sales due to the introduction of a new Microsoft Operating system. Introduced with the launch of Windows XP and replicated for Vista and Windows 7, consumers are able to purchase a PC within some number of months of the Operating System launch and receive the free (or discounted) upgrade to Windows 7.
Posted by Admin Date: Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Dell Deal of the Day: 19″Touchscreen Desktop
Finally, a deal at Dell.com worth publishing as a Deal of the day! (perhaps Dell is saving its ‘bullets’ when the real holiday shopping starts.
Get a cool Dell StudioOne (All-in-one) desktop for $699 (normally $799).
The system features:
- 18.5″ 1366×768 multi-touch touchscreen LCD
- Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5300 @ 2.6GHz;
- 3GB RAM;
- 320GB HDD;
- DVD burner;
- Vista Home Premium (Free upgrade to Windows 7);
- NVIDIA Geforce 9200M (onboard);
- webcam;
- 1yr warranty
Posted by Admin Date: Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Dell Zinio HD, Mini/Media Center Desktop, Now Available For Order
I’m a BIG fan of Windows Media Center desktops. 3 or 4 years ago, it was a major pain to set up a home network and distribute movies or music across the house to a Media Center PC and Large Screen display. The folks at Engadget just came across the Dell Zinio HD mini form-factor PC for sale over at Dell.com.
Today, setting up a Media Center PC is a piece of cake. Just get a Wireless-N router and hook it up to your main home computer. With a USB adapter and a small form-factor PC in your living room you can now easily enjoy movies in large screen goodness (depending on how good you are with Torrent Services). The Zinio HD seems to fit the bill. Featuring AMD Athlon Processors, 4GB of memory, discrete ATI graphics card and a 500GB hard drive, this seems to be a great, tiny system with the horsepower to crank out 720p video.
Posted by Admin Date: Monday, November 9, 2009
Dell Caught Up in NY State Anti-trust Case with Intel
Dell attempts to clean up its PR image after its recent cost cutting measures and factory closings has hit another hurdle. NY State Attorney General, Andrew Cuomo, filed a federal lawsuit against Intel, similar to the one that was recently decided in the European Union, that alleges that Intel aboused its monopoly power by paying computer manufacturers to use its chips over its competitor, AMD.
Posted by Admin Date: Monday, November 9, 2009
