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Bloomberg just reported that Palm has put itself up for sale and that offers will potentially come in this week. That’s quite wild news, considering CEO Jon Rubinstein was adamant just a few days ago that Palm had a plan to get profitable — even while his company’s stock price went on a buyout-rumor fueled  [ Read More ]

Who knew that getting mobile broadband devices activated was such a lengthy and complicated procedure, perhaps that is not the opinion of most of the Dell customers. These disagreements are so many in number that the company had to come up woth Mobile Activation Centers. The procedure is small and error -  proof. All you  [ Read More ]

The Latitude E Series which is already out in the domestic and international markets has plenty of stuff that its user couldn’t care less about, like “Distributed Device Management” and “Client Configuration Toolkit” to handle massive rollouts of identical computing environments across a company. Inspite of all this there are a lot more features in  [ Read More ]

While this isn’t quite bad enough to merit a “dude, your Dell is on fire” part deux, it’s a pretty frightful example of the hazard modern batteries (of any kind) represent. A Consumerist reader reports that her year-old Dell Mini 9 recently popped, “hissed and sizzled” as it filled her room with smoke and tarnished  [ Read More ]

Its seems that casual TV viewers and large corporations handle Schadenfreude very differently. While MTV’s Jersey Shore has been a constant source of amusement for at least one Engadget editor, TMZ (our other favorite tech site) reports that Dell has joined a growing list of advertisers that are backing away from the reality series. In  [ Read More ]

NVIDIA’s Ion technology may be hogging the limelight when it comes to netbook graphics, but Broadcom’s no stranger to the space. After giving Acer’s Aspire One HD playback capabilities that it could only dream of just months prior, the company’s newly announced Crystal HD platform could provide Intel’s Atom N450 with the multimedia boost it  [ Read More ]

What’s smaller than a small form factor PC? Frankly, a lot. Cells, shrimp, quarters — you name it. That said, there aren’t many bona fide PCs out there that can shrink down beyond the admittedly vague SSF dimensions, but Dell‘s making another push for its Ultra Small Form Factor (USFF) as the “world’s smallest fully  [ Read More ]

Microsoft’s Courier, the dual-touchscreen wunderbooklet, had plenty of gadget lovers in a tizzy in late September — even though the company itself doesn’t seem to know what to do with it. An eventual release of the thing seems unlikely, so user Pak-Kei Mak over at the My Dell Mini forums created his own. It’s a  [ Read More ]

Turns out Mini 3i is only the beginning. Dell has announced plans to create a new Communications Group with a focus on mobile phones and similar portable devices. Current consumer division head and former Motorola exec Ron Garriques will take the helm. Not much else to say at this point, but make no mistake, Dell  [ Read More ]

The miniaturized version of Nokia’s N97 began shipping to eager consumers in Europe in late October, but for those unable to save their pennies in America while waiting for the N900, today’s the day to unload. As of right now, the (obviously unlocked) N97 Mini is shipping from both Dell and Amazon here in the  [ Read More ]