Dell misses profit targets for fiscal Q4 2012 due to failing to have enough HDDs for its high margin product line-- with net income reaching $764M, a -18% Y-o-Y decline.

Company EMEA revenues see growth in Q4, increasing by 8% Y-o-Y.

On the other hand Dell revenues for Q4 total $16BN with 2% Y-o-Y growth. Revenues for fiscal 2012 reach $62BN, as Dell shifts is business strategy away from the consumer market to higher-margin enterprise markets.

The Dell is getting stronger within the enterprise segment, as large enterprise and SMB are up by 5 Read more...

HP CEO Meg Whitman went all out to assure partners she "gets the channel" at the HP Global Partners Conference 2012, insisting the company will not turn into the software- and services-led firm Léo Apotheker wanted.

"I get what you do and appreciate the importance of what we do together," Whitman said, before describing HP's 200000-strong global channel partners as a "competitive advantage."

Channel partners have plenty of reason to be wary of HP-- during his reign at the company, Apotheker preferred to focus HP efforts away from hardware and towards enterprise services and software. Whitman does agree on the importance of software, but core printing, PC and infrastructure markets still generate 70% of HP sales.

One of the first decisions Whitman took upon becoming CEO on September 2011 was to reverse plans to sell off the $40BN PSG group in a Great Garage Sale.

Following the decision to rethink the rivalry with Intel, AMD reveals the company roadmap for 2012 and beyond-- one guiding the company away from x86-based processors towards lands of the system-on-a-chip (SoC) variety, amongst others.

AMD is also going to focus on narrower market segments such as ultrathin notebooks, tablets, all-in-ones and cloud servers.

Unsealed court documents from the Oracle vs HP legal dispute (centering around Oracle not supporting HP server processors) reveal how HP was paying Intel to keep on producing Itanium chips. 

According the documents, agreed to start paying Intel $400 million dollars (spread over the 2009-2014 period) in 2008 to continue producing Itanium processors, a product line Intel was planning to get rid off. 

Following the deal, the 2 companies signed another $250M agreement in 2010 to keep Itanium going until 2017.

Oracle proceeded to accuse HP of fraud-- since Read more...

The Super Micro CES 2012 stand has a SuperWorkstation Showcase, housing new machines such as the high-end SS7046GT-TRF for CAD/CAM/CAE, 3D visualisation and scientific applications. 

The company says the dual-CPU 4 GPU SuperWorkstation boasts high memory and storage capacity, together with 1792 GPU cores delivering 4.12 Teraflops of performance. 

The SuperWorkstation line goes from high-end to entry-level game development and creative design systems. It supports Intel Xeon and 2nd generation Core processors, NVidia Quadro and Tesla CPUs, and memory Read more...

Is RIM looking for a potential buyer? According to Reuters recent market rumours suggest Goldman Sachs is helping the BlackBerry maker "explore strategic options."

This is not the first time RIM takeover speculation is popping up-- last month Reuters reported Amazon was considering to buy RIM (before backing off) while the Wall Street Journal said Microsoft and Nokia were also planning to make a joint bid for RIM.

As one expects, RIM and Goldman Sachs are still to either confirm or deny the buyout speculation.

Of course, a company hiring an Read more...