Its drivers now have handheld Dell computers with touch screens to record orders, price changes and payments.
Today we buy Dell computers for a fraction of the cost and a thousand times the capabilities.
If consumers (including businesses) buy 10 Dell computers or 20 uniform shirts it creates no new American jobs.
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And Dell announced a deal Tuesday with Europe's Carrefour Group to sell Dell computers in 365 outlets in Europe next year.
The agreement between the world's largest personal computer company and Google, comes after the two firms announced in February that they were in talks about installing Google's software on Dell computers.
For example, if outsourcing hardware manufacturing provides IBM (NYSE:IBM) a cost advantage, it also does for its competitors, such as the Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ), Dell Computers (NYSE:DELL), and EMC (NYSE:EMC) that will follow suit.
Some of the world's biggest companies suffered huge falls this week, with Dell Computers down 28% for the week, leading computer chip maker Intel down 20%, and leading software makers Sun Microsystems and Oracle all dropping by more than 15% - losing billions of dollars in value.
The key question, however, is will Dell make its computers available at retailers?
For example, Dell can customize computers in response to customers' online requests.
So while Dell's computers are of impressive quality, its products are secondary to cash and inventory controls that make the sale of its products so profitable.
Over the past year Dell has broke Dell 's mania for dealing directly with consumers to strike deals with Best Buy, Tesco and others to get Dell's computers in consumers' faces.
Dell promises the XPS 15z will be the first of a series of thin and powerful computers from Dell this year.
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After all, computer visionaries like Bill Gates and Michael Dell talked about how computers would change everything.
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As long as folks wanted personal computers, Dell was the game to beat.
This is all the more inexplicable considering that Jon is lugging around laptop computers from Dell and Apple, Verizon and Droid smart-phones, an iPad and an iPhone.
In addition to iPhones and iPads, the manufacturer also produces game systems for Nintendo , electronics for Sony , computers for Dell and select items for Nokia .
Almost a fifth of server computers sold by Dell now have Linux installed rather than Windows.
Dell depends on selling personal computers for the majority of its revenue, while desktops contribute only a quarter of HP's sales.
Meanwhile, Dell been hustling to build computers with more curb appeal in a consumer market where it faces tough competition from Apple, HP, Acer, Asus, Samsung, and a host of others.
Coming from Dell whose dull gray commodity computers were probably a major impetus behind the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) movement by users who wanted something more attractive to work on, is something of a surprise, but Barris says Dell is an HFT powerhouse.
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And while Dell's year-long accounting probe makes it plain that the company was struggling to meet investor's sky-high expectations, (see: "Dell: Cooked Books and Computers") the company remains in robust financial health, even as rivals Hewlett-Packard and Apple continue to tear off fresh chunks of the PC market at Dell's expense.
Dell says the outcry over its computers and customer service pushed it to regroup and restructure.
Thanks to rapid advancements in microprocessors, software, screens, memory chips and storage disks, Dell has commoditized low-end computers and had them supplant high-end proprietary technology.
Dell became a market leader in computers through early use of the internet to sell goods and services direct to consumers, and to buy components from suppliers.
And if you think of it like Microsoft Windows is an operating system that runs on several computers, like HP, Dell, and Toshiba...
Years ago, Gateway only sold computers online, just like Dell.
Having seen their profit margins squeezed mercilessly, some of America's biggest suppliers of personal computers, including Compaq, Dell, Gateway and Hewlett Packard, have expanded into the fast-growing hosting business.
Dell and Gateway have changed the way computers are sold by allowing customers to configure their own systems, by telephone or over the Internet, and simply shipping them the box.
Criminal hackers are spending more time investigating security flaws in Mac computers, Reuters reports, as Apple gains further market share in desktop computers from PC makers like Dell, HP and Lenovo.
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