Dell gets serious about ramping its solutions skills and capabilities with organic and inorganic investments in key intellectual property and talent. By 2011, the company has its best solutions portfolio ever and celebrates the largest single-year revenue increase in company history.
2009
We acquire Perot Systems and launch a new business called Dell™ Services that gives customers end-to-end IT services to help lower their total cost of IT ownership.
Dell enters the smartphone market with the Mini 3i from China Mobile.
Customers rank Dell x86 servers, corporate laptops and desktops No. 1 in enterprise customer satisfaction.
We introduce Adamo and Latitude™ Z laptops — both the world's thinnest laptops — for consumer and business users who demand design, innovation and functionality. ... Read More ▶▶
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7 March 2012
Apple today introduced the new iPad — the third generation of its category-defining mobile device — featuring a stunning new Retina display, Apple's new A5X chip with quad-core graphics and a 5-megapixel iSight camera with advanced optics for capturing incredible photos and 1080p HD video. iPad with Wi-Fi + 4G connects to fast networks worldwide, and still delivers the same all-day 10-hour battery life while remaining amazingly thin and light. The new iPad will be available in black or white through the Apple Online Store and in Apple Retail stores on Friday 16 March, starting from £399. Customers can begin pre-ordering their new iPad today on the Apple Online Store. Also from today, iPad 2 will be offered at an even more affordable price, starting from just £329. ... Read More ▶▶
Extreme power and mobility for professionals. Connect to the advanced docking station and speed through every office challenge without pause for breath. This is the ultimate power notebook, crafted to perform at the limit with the best second generation Intel® processors, the fastest SSD Flash drives and VAIO everywair 3G. Ultra strong in carbon fibre with Fast Boot and over 14 hours of battery life.
A compact and stylish everyday notebook with smart textured finish and a choice of colours that's easy to carry and use. Convenient one touch features, fun software and a full size numeric keyboard on some models makes multimedia computing a breeze. ... Read More ▶▶
Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HPQ) or HP is an American multinational information technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, United States that provides products, technologies, software, solutions and services to consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and large enterprises, including customers in the government, health and education sectors.
The company was founded in a one-car garage in Palo Alto by William (Bill) Redington Hewlett and Dave Packard. HP is the world's leading PC manufacturer. ... Read More ▶▶
Nokia Lumia 800 (codenamed 'Sea Ray') is a Windows Phone OS powered smartphone, first unveiled on 26 October 2011 at the Nokia World 2011 event.[4] It was Nokia's first mobile phone to run Windows Phone OS. It marked the company shifts of focus in favor of Windows Phone for its premium priced phones.
Lumia 800 shares its design with the previously released Meego-based Nokia N9. The outward differences are one added physical button dedicated to the camera on the right side of the phone, and a dual LED flash moved directly above the Carl Zeiss camera lens.[5] Despite a similar exterior, the Lumia 800 has a different interior than N9. Lumia 800's chipset come from Qualcomm, where N9 is based on a Texas Instruments chipset and processor.[6][7]
Like the N9, it has a convex curved Gorilla Glass AMOLED PenTile screen with a ClearBlack antiglare filter. The screen is 3.7 inches (800 x 480 pixels) compared with 3.9 inches (854 x 480 pixels) for N9, to conform to the Windows Phone specifications list, ... Read More ▶▶
The iPhone 4S is a touchscreen slate smartphone developed by Apple Inc. It is the fifth generation of the iPhone, a device that combines the 3.5-inch (89 mm) iPod Touch with mobile phone capability.[5] It retains the exterior design of its predecessor, the iPhone 4, but is host to a range of improved hardware specifications and software updates.[6]
Integrated software and hardware changes support the introduction of new user interface and functions by Apple, including the voice recognizing and talking assistant called Siri, personal computer independence, cloud-sourced data (iCloud) and an improved camera system. ... Read More ▶▶
BlackBerry is a line of mobile email and smartphone devices developed and designed by Canadian company Research In Motion (RIM) since 1999.[2][3]
BlackBerry devices are smartphones, designed to function as personal digital assistants, portable media players, internet browsers, gaming devices, and much more. They are primarily known for their ability to send and receive (push) email and instant messages while maintaining a high level of security through on-device message encryption. ... Read More ▶▶
The Samsung Galaxy S2 is Samsung's flagship phone for 2011 and is the first Samsung phone to be powered by a dual-core processor. The Galaxy S2 runs Android version 2.3 (Gingerbread) and has an incredible 4.3 inch Super AMOLED Plus touchscreen. Other highlights include 1080p Full HD video recording, an 8 megapixel still camera and a secondary front-facing camera for making video calls.
Features of the Samsung Galaxy S2 include:
8 megapixel camera with LED flash, autofocus, face detection, smile shot and 4x digital zoom
Full HD video recording (Up to 1080p)
Display: Super AMOLED Plus, 16 million colours, 480 x 800 pixels (4.3 inches) capacitive touchscreen with auto-rotate
Music player
Stereo FM radio with RDS
MP3 & WAV ringtones
Integrated handsfree speaker
AGPS with geo-tagging and Google Maps... Read More ▶▶
Android is a Linux-based operating system for mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers. It is developed by the Open Handset Alliance led by Google.[9][10]
Google purchased the initial developer of the software, Android Inc., in 2005.[11] The unveiling of the Android distribution in 2007 was announced with the founding of the Open Handset Alliance, a consortium of 86 hardware, software, and telecommunication companies devoted to advancing open standards for mobile devices.[12][13][14][15] Google releases the Android code as open-source, under the Apache License.[16] The Android Open Source Project (AOSP) is tasked with the maintenance and further development of Android.[17]
Android has a large community of developers writing applications ("apps") that extend the functionality of the devices. Developers write primarily in a customized version of Java.[18] Apps can be downloaded from third-party sites or through online stores such as Google Play (formerly Android Market), the app store run by Google. ... Read More ▶▶
Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of Linux is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds.[10][11]
Linux was originally developed as a free operating system for Intel x86-based personal computers. It has since been ported to more computer hardware platforms than any other operating system. It is a leading operating system on servers and other big iron systems such as mainframe computers and supercomputers:[12][13][14][15] more than 90% of today's top 500 supercomputers run some variant of Linux,[16] including the 10 fastest.[17] Linux also runs on embedded systems (devices where the operating system is typically built into the firmware and highly tailored to the system) such as mobile phones, tablet computers, network routers, televisions[18][19] and video game consoles; the Android system in wide use on mobile devices is built on the Linux kernel. ... Read More ▶▶
Mac OS is a series of graphical user interface-based operating systems developed by Apple Inc. (formerly Apple Computer, Inc.) for their Macintosh line of computer systems. The Macintosh user experience is credited with popularizing the graphical user interface. The original form of what Apple would later name the "Mac OS" was the integral and unnamed system software first introduced in 1984 with the original Macintosh, usually referred to simply as the System so. ... Read More ▶▶
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.
Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces (GUIs).[2] Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal computer market, overtaking Mac OS, which had been introduced in 1984.
The most recent client version of Windows is Windows 7; the most recent server version is Windows Server 2008 R2; the most recent mobile version is Windows Phone 7.5. ... Read More ▶▶
EA Sports is a brand of Electronic Arts that creates and develops sports video games. Formerly a marketing gimmick of Electronic Arts, in which they tried to mimic real-life sports networks by calling themselves "EA Sports Network" (EASN) with pictures or endorsements of real commentators such as John Madden, it soon grew up to become a sub-label on its own, releasing game series such as NBA Elite, FIFA, NHL, Madden NFL, and NASCAR.
Most games under this brand are developed by EA Canada, the studio of Electronic Arts in Burnaby, British Columbia, as well as at EA Blackbox, Vancouver, British Columbia and EA Tiburon in Maitland, Florida. EA Sports mainly competes with 2K Sports.
EA Sports' early motto was If it's in the game, it's in the game, later changed to "It's in the game" This tag line, strategized by Don Transeth, written by Jeff Odiorne and Michael Wilde, ... Read More ▶▶
The Xbox is a sixth-generation video game console manufactured by Microsoft. It was released on November 15, 2001 in North America, February 22, 2002 in Japan, and March 14, 2002 in Australia and Europe. It was Microsoft's first foray into the gaming console market, and competed with Sony's PlayStation 2, Sega's Dreamcast (which stopped American sales before the Xbox went on sale), and Nintendo's GameCube. The integrated Xbox Live service launched in November 2002 allowed players to play games online.[4] The Xbox was the first console offered by an American company after the Atari Jaguar stopped sales in 1996. ... Read More ▶▶
The PlayStation 2 is a sixth-generation video game console manufactured by Sony as part of the PlayStation series. Its development was announced in March 1999 and it was first released on March 4, 2000, in Japan. Its primary competitors were Sega Dreamcast, Microsoft Xbox, and Nintendo GameCube.
The PlayStation 2 is the best-selling console of all time, having reached over 150 million units sold as of January 31, 2011.[6][7] This milestone was reached 12 years after the system was released in Japan on March 4, 2000. ... Read More ▶▶
The Nintendo Entertainment System (also abbreviated as NES or simply called Nintendo) is an 8-bit video game console that was released by Nintendo in North America during 1985, in Europe during 1986 and Australia in 1987. In most of Asia, including Japan (where it was first launched in 1983), the Philippines, China, Vietnam, Singapore, the Middle East and Hong Kong, it was released as the Family Computer, commonly shortened as either the Famicom, or abbreviated to FC. In South Korea, it was known as the Hyundai Comboy and was distributed by Hynix which then was known as Hyundai Electronics. It was succeeded by the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
Once the best-selling gaming console of its time,[7]e[›] the NES helped revitalize the US video game industry following the video game crash of 1983,[8] and set the standard for subsequent consoles of its generation. With the NES, Nintendo introduced a now-standard business model of licensing third-party developers, authorizing them to produce and distribute software for Nintendo's platform. ... Read More ▶▶
Can Kaz Hirai, Sony's new chief executive, bring together all of the parts of the sprawling technology giant? Matt Warman finds out. the Sony Walkman. Now more than half of all homes in America own an iPod. Meanwhile, the Japanese company's television business has accumulated total losses of $10billion. Its mobile phone business, jointly run until recently with Ericsson, all but ceded the battlefield to Apple and Samsung. Today a new, brave man takes over at the top.
Kaz Hirai is 51, the incoming Chief Executive after Welsh-born Sir Howard Stringer, 69, announced his intention to step down. Brought up in both America and Japan, Hirai has run the successful, profitable PlayStation business and may yet be the man to meld together the parts of Sony that make music, films and games with the parts that make televisions, cameras, phones and even medical equipment.
Hirai concedes that "there's a lot to fix". He says "I think the most important thing as we start on April 1st is to understand where we need to be headed". ... Read More ▶▶
Product Features
Intuitive interaction with voice and motion control
New sophisticated Smart Interaction technology enables you to operate your TV without pushing a button. You can easily control functions such as turning on/off your TV, changing channels, accessing apps and navigating the web using simple voice commands and motions. Built-in camera with face recognition technology lets you log on to Smart Hub and your personal accounts with no need to type your ID or password. Experience a whole new way to interact with your TV.
* We recommend using the Smart touch Control for the voice control function
* Voice interaction is not available in all languages, dialects and regions.
* Actual performance may vary depending on the language spoken
* Certain features within Smart Interaction may require Internet access. ... Read More ▶▶
Liquid-crystal display televisions (LCD TV) are television sets that use LCD display technology to produce images. LCD televisions are thinner and lighter than cathode ray tube (CRTs) of similar display size, and are available in much larger sizes. When manufacturing costs fell, this combination of features made LCDs practical for television receivers.
In 2007, LCD televisions surpassed sales of CRT-based televisions worldwide for the first time,[citation needed] and their sales figures relative to other technologies are accelerating. LCD TVs are quickly displacing the only major competitors in the large-screen market, the plasma display panel and rear-projection television. ... Read More ▶▶
The cathode ray tube (CRT) is a vacuum tube containing an electron gun (a source of electrons) and a fluorescent screen used to view images. It has a means to accelerate and deflect the electron beam onto the fluorescent screen to create the images. The image may represent electrical waveforms (oscilloscope), pictures (television, computer monitor), radar targets and others. CRTs have also been used as memory devices, in which case the visible light emitted from the fluoresecent material (if any) is not intended to have significant meaning to a visual observer (though the visible pattern on the tube face may cryptically represent the stored data). ... Read More ▶▶