The unemployment rate in Central Texas slipped to 7.1% in October, down from 7.5% the month before. The news points to a significantly brighter jobs outlook in Austin than in Texas overall, where the unemployment rate is 8%. (The national unemployment rate now stands...
Traffic in app stores could be almost as heavy as foot traffic in retail stores this Friday, as some of the nation's major retailers roll out apps meant to bring in foot traffic and online shoppers. Dell (Nasdaq: DELL), Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT), Anthropologie and...
Dell Inc. is keeping more of every dollar it makes. The world's No. 3 PC maker (behind Hewlett-Packard and Lenovo) earned $1.1 billion in the third quarter on revenue of $15.4 billion.
Aiming for the enterprise market -- and specifically for business, healthcare and education -- Dell Inc. today unveiled the Latitude ST, its Windows 7 tablet.
Weighing in at 1.8 pounds and sporting a 10.1-inch screen and two cameras, the Latitude ST will get seven hours...
The three most populous states in America each saw significant job growth during the last 12 months, according to data released today by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. California, Texas and New York were the leaders among the 27 states that experienced statistically...
A confident Dell chairman and CEO Michael Dell explained how the company is transforming itself into a one-stop shop with servers, storage and networking, as well as a services business solutions.
As Dell was hosting its annual Dell World convention in Austin, news broke that China's Lenovo has overtaken Dell to become the world's number two personal computer maker for the first time. According to Gartner and IDC, HP grew 5.3%, faster than the industry...
Dell has declared its five inch Streak tablet officially dead, though the device disappeared from shelves already back in early July.The freakishly large phone or terribly tiny tablet – depending on how you look at it – appears to have been simply too confusing...
While it's no surprise that Apple Inc.'s (AAPL) iPad came in first place in a U.S. customer-satisfaction survey from IHS Inc., the fact that China's Shenzhen Zenithink Technologies Co. Ltd. came in at a close second was unexpected.The survey, which polled 1,400...
Alvarion, provider of 4G networks in the Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) market, announced that Bandera Electric Cooperative, an electric cooperative since 1938, has deployed a 4G network in Texas.The GSMA announced that Barcelona has been selected as the Mobile World Capital from 2012 to...
Dell Inc. (DELL) announced today that it will acquire Force 10 Networks, a buy that backs up analyst speculation that the second-largest computer maker in the world would absorb a networking vendor to provide the company a combined networking and data center offering to...
Birch Communications, IP-based telecommunications and managed services provider, announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the U.S. CLEC assets of Cordia Communications Corp., My Tel Co Inc., and Northstar Telecom Inc. Read more.Dell announced it has signed a definitive agreement to...
Round Rock-based Dell Inc. (DELL) has already repurchased around $1.6 billion in shares so far this year and executives said the second-largest computer maker in the world plans to buy another $2 billion before the end of 2011. Details about the...
Macheen Inc., an Austin-based mobile broadband service provider for retailers and device makers, announced that the company raised $10 million to put into product innovation, sales and marketing. Founded in 2009, Macheen has now raised a total $12.75 million to support expansion of the...
Round Rock-based Dell (DELL) was awarded a $252M contract to provide IT services and products through a six-year agreement with the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).
Dell will handle operations, management and updates to the NRC’s Office of Information Systems within the agency’s IT infrastructure...
Round Rock-based Dell (DELL) was awarded a $252M contract to provide IT services and products through a six-year agreement with the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).
Dell will handle operations, management and updates to the NRC’s Office of Information Systems within the agency’s IT infrastructure...
Reuters | June 10, 2011 | Melanie Lee
(Reuters) - Dell Inc has chosen to launch its new 10-inch Android tablet in China this summer, passing up on a U.S., Europe launch, as China emerges as a front line battle for tablets.
The tablet named "Streak 10 Pro"...
Paul Mansky seems confident in his assessment of Dell (DELL). The Canaccord Genuity analyst wrote that with sales of personal computers waning due to the rise of tablets, the Round Rock-based company needs to make a move into networking, and should do it by...
Austin-based Macheen Inc., announced that the company formed an advisory board and now has a VP of marketing in Kent Libby.
While often quiet about the company’s business plans, CEO Richard Schwartz spoke with RCR Wireless at CTIA in Orlando in March, expanding on Macheen’s...
OP-ED: The Greater Austin area, stretching from Round Rock to San Marcos, is a small market when it comes to big companies headquartered here. You can count the number of Fortune 500 members with two hands – and that’s using just your hands, not...
Round Rock-based Dell Inc. (DELL) said yesterday that the company wants to buy “everything around data centers” in attempts to keep its top spot in the computer server market.
The world’s second-biggest maker of personal computers continues expansion and is targeting company acquisitions across the...
Round Rock-based Dell Inc. (DELL) was chosen by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide computer equipment and hosting services for more than 1,200 VA sites nationwide. Dell landed the four-year, $476 million contract to provide 600,000 personal computers and monitors along...
The word is out, and the Mango update is no longer a myth. Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) previewed its free Windows Phone upgrade this morning.The update is for all current Windows Phone handsets, and should be available this fall. The updates will include features...
