Erin Joyce

Dell  is looking for more acquisitions and partnerships as part of its turnaround plans. But that’s just one part of its plan to reignite growth, according to Michael Dell, the CEO and founder who returned to the chief executive role in January after Kevin Rollins resigned in the face of slowing revenues, an internal accounting […]

UPDATED: NEW YORK — Big changes are sweeping through computer-selling giant Dell: new sales approaches, management changes, new strategies, and now, new product lines for small businesses. The company today launched a new “Vostro” line of laptops, desktops, printers and other hardware focused solely on the smallest of the small business IT needs. The offerings […]

You’ve heard of the mean girl syndrome, a streak of cruelty that subsumes young girls bent on agonizing, terrorizing and otherwise bullying other boys and girls they deem uncool, too pretty, smart or guilty of some unknown offense. Looks like some of that behavior translates easily to the Web. About one third of all teenagers […]

Blades have been booming in popularity for a few years now, mostly because they take up less space in cramped data centers. But for smaller and even mid-sized outfits, with their skimpy IT staffs and budgets, it’s another story. They still have to deal with the cramped racks, spaghetti wires splayed in every direction and […]

IBM  added more footprints to its software development roadmap in key sectors today with news it would buy Swedish software development firm Telelogic AB in an all-cash deal. The tender offer price of 5.2 billion Swedish Kroner works out to 21 Swedish Kroner per share, or about U.S.$745 million. The purchase, once it closes, will […]

Motorola  calls it the next generation retail solution with enterprise mobility technology. But the company just wants shoppers to call its latest wireless device a cool thing, and use it. Either way, Motorola’s latest foray into enterprise technology products is in full swing with the third-generation release of its MC17 mobile computer device for retailers. […]

Technology reseller CDW  has agreed to merge with private equity firm Madison Dearborn Partners in a deal worth about $7.3 billion. MDP said it is offering shareholders $87.75 in cash for each common stock they hold. That’s about a 16 percent premium over CDW’s closing share price of $75.56 Friday before published reports about a […]

The computer disk containing data on former and current Alcatel-Lucent employees and their dependants was supposed to be delivered from one vendor that handles employee benefit plans to another vendor that does actuarial work for the Murray Hill, N.J., company. It never made it. Now, Alcatel-Lucent is working with state, local and federal authorities in […]

Amazon.com  turned up the buzz meter in the digital music world today with news it plans to launch an MP3 digital music store without digital rights management  restrictions on the songs. It said it plans to offer DRM-free MP3 format songs from more than 12,000 record labels, starting with EMI Music’s digital catalog as the […]

NEW YORK –- The one thing Motorola CEO Ed Zander would not call the wireless device maker’s latest multimedia devices was an iPhone killer. Instead, the world’s No. 2 wireless phone maker stuck to its knitting — and message — about faster and more compelling multimedia experiences with its latest array of mobile devices. Analysts […]

Once a poster child for dot-com flameouts, former online fashion retailing site boo.com is back in business — this time as an online travel research site with a social-networking twist. The site, which went live this week, is capitalizing on the social-networking craze to offer a collection of online communities that comment on their experiences […]

IBM  breezed past expectations for its first quarter of 2007, thanks to strong growth in Asia Pacific countries and Europe, especially in its global services division. The tech bellwether reported a profit that rose by eight percent to $1.8 billion ($1.21 per diluted share) on revenues of 22.0 billion, an increase of four percent (with […]