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• Dell NZ head takes Australian role

  Dell is seeking a regional sales director/New Zealand country lead, following the promotion of Deborah Harrigan to the role of general manager of the PC maker’s SME organisation for Australia and New Zealand.
  Harrigan was head of Dell’s NZ sales organisation for two-and-a-half years, and has been with Dell for 10 years, five of them overseas. She will head overseas again, to Sydney, to take up the new role. Her appointment is effective from late May.

• Dell launches new servers, management tools

  Dell has launched 14 new products globally including new servers and management tools it says will reduce datacentre costs and boost speed of deployment. Among other features, some of Dell's new servers and storage systems come with built in solid state memory to boost performance.

• HP now biggest Intel customer

  Hewlett-Packard became the biggest customer worldwide for Intel last year, surpassing Dell.

• Intel tries to free 'netbook' trademark from Psion

  Intel on Wednesday said it had joined Dell and other companies in an attempt to free the term 'netbook' from the clutches of PC maker Psion Teklogix.

• Netbooks won't save PC market this year, surveys say

  Netbook shipments will see tremendous growth this year but won't be enough to boost overall worldwide PC shipments, which will sink due to the global economic downturn, according to surveys from IDC and Gartner released on Wednesday.

• Court puts CSIRO Wi-Fi injunction on hold

  A federal court in the U.S. has temporarily lifted an injunction that banned Buffalo Technology (USA) from selling its IEEE 802.11a and 802.11g Wi-Fi products due to a patent claim by an Australian scientific agency.

• Datacom, Dell win deals

  Datacom has won a three year deal to build a state services Identity Verification Service.

• Dell offers unpaid time off, voluntary separation

  Dell hopes it can better weather the economic storm by implementing a number of new cost-cutting measures, including an enhanced severance package for employees who voluntarily leave the company.

• 'Instant On' could be a winner for MS

  You arrive at work, ready and raring to go, and sit down at your desk.

• Dell unveils new virtualisation products

  Dell has made a number of announcements designed around virtualisation.

• Dell wins Social Development, Lenovo wins Defence PC deals

  Dell has won a tender to supply the Ministry of Social Development with PCs and laptops while Gen-i has won a deal to supply the New Zealand Defence Force with Lenovo gear.

• Dell virtualisation release

  Dell has released FlexAddress, an I/O virtualisation tool for its blade servers.

• Toybox: Huge screen bliss

  The reason I decided to buy a new monitor was I had moved over to using a MacBook Pro 15” laptop. I had a great workstation and a couple of good laptops, but after switching to the MacBook Pro I realised I could get rid of a few computers and just live with one.

• Axon in talks to sell Dell, Apple through portal

  Axon has spent $1 million to redevelop its online procurement system, Axonline, opting for off-the-shelf software from Australian company iSell to do the job.
  The new system is the fifth iteration of Axon's e-procurement service, which allows customers to buy online from a wide range of ICT suppliers. The first four developments were built in-house, but they have now been replaced with iSell.

• Desktops in decline in developed countries

  Once at the epicentre of PC makers' profits, desktops are losing their lustre as companies are hit by thinner profit margins and more emphasis is placed on mobility, analysts say.