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• Court finds PC-maker Dell guilty of fraud

  Dell was found guilty yesterday of fraud, false advertising, deceptive business practices and abusive debt collection practices in a case brought by the New York attorney general.

• Study: Apple owns 66% of $1,000-plus retail market

  Apple's Macs accounted for 66% of all personal computers priced at US$1,000 or more sold at retail in the US during the first three months of this year, a market research firm says.

• Toybox: Dell crams features into wireless printer

  Dell’s 948 all-in-one wireless printer arrived to the Toybox testing lab last week.

• Dell announces first EqualLogic arrays

  Acting immediately on its recent EqualLogic acquisition, Dell has announced a new line of network storage products that the company claims are easy to install and manage.

• Dell ships SAN

  Dell has released the first products resulting from its acquisition of EqualLogic, with the shipping of Dell EqualLogic PS5000 Series storage-area network arrays.

• Green digital generation the future, Lark tells Summit

  To participate in the global digital economy, New Zealand must build a new digital generation, it must be able to adapt to change and the future must be green.

• Dell acquires Everdream

  In an effort to boost its managed IT services portfolio, Dell has agreed to buy desktop services management company Everdream.

• Dell to offer Solaris systems under pact with Sun

  The top executives of Sun Microsystems and Dell joined forces at the recent Oracle OpenWorld user conference to unveil an agreement that lets Dell offer Sun's Solaris operating system on its PowerEdge servers.

• Toybox: Colourful Dell comes with a silver lining

  I was hoping to get my hands on a pink Dell Inspiron 1520, so was a little disappointed when a black one arrived at Toybox headquarters, but I guess I can’t have everything.
  Dell is not holding back on the colour options here, giving buyers eight different colours to choose from, including sunshine yellow, espresso brown and flamingo pink.

• Dell buys EqualLogic

  Dell has entered into an agreement to acquire SAN vendor EqualLogic for US$1.4 billion (NZ$1.79 billion).

• Kiwi becomes Dell VP

  Expatriate New Zealander Andy Lark, who was Sun Microsystems' corporate communications manager before a stint with start-up LogLogic, has joined Dell as vice president of marketing and communications.

• Dell falls foul of Commerce Commission

  Dell has settled with the Commerce Commission and admitted breaches of the fair trading act involving misrepresentation.

• Dell to pay millions to former CEO

  Dellwill pay former CEO Kevin Rollins US$48.5 million (NZ$65 million) for his stock options six months after he resigned in the wake of investor criticism about the vendor losing market share to rival Hewlett-Packard.

• Dell's UltraSharp 3007WFP could be a good investment

  Dell’s Ultrsharp 3007WFP turned in strong scores in the text portion of our image quality tests. True to the monitor’s name, text in a Microsoft Word document was indeed sharp, and text in a screen of multi-sized fonts was crisp and easy to read, even at small font sizes.

• Dell to lay off 10% of employees

  Dell will lay off 10% of its 88,100 workers, in a continuing effort to improve profits as the company also completes an investigation of accounting fraud, says the company.