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...remote, to a $2,270 gaming desktop with a swanky scarlet-and-gray exterior and high-end specs. Its purchase of Alienware, a leading seller of game computers, will give Dell cachet in that segment. Parra says Dell's stores give consumers a chance to see its multimedia PCs and laptops in a home environment, paired with some of Dell's other consumer goods like its flat-screen TV sets. The company expects to open more stores in the fall...
Since the Web's inception, Internet companies have struggled with a basic issue: Do they charge consumers for content or rely on ads? Now that PCs are ubiquitous and broadband is almost so, the free search-driven model, perfected by Google, in which advertisers are charged for the eyeballs they collect, has apparently...
...resident minicomputer. In retrospect, I think we must have been the last class in which everyone typed (and laboriously retyped) their theses and sniffed the vaguely intoxicating fumes of liquid paper. On return visits to campus in the early eighties I’d notice the steady proliferation of PCs (and later Macs). The tools we used to learn and create were evolving, and the clacky typewriter was being left behind...
...they designed a solar-powered Internet network that is inexpensive, easy to install and nearly maintenance free. At its heart is a regional hub from which wireless relay stations--some bolted to trees--fan out for up to four miles and connect a network of PCs. Total cost, including solar panels and relay stations...
Like Rheem, many companies avoid dealing with end-of-life electronics duties as long as possible. When they do, many are unaware of the federal rule that businesses generating more than 220 lbs. of monitor waste a month (about 10 PCs' worth) handle disposal responsibly. That's starting to change. The number of for-profit electronics-recycling firms has doubled over the past three years, to about 900, offering alternatives to the landfill and the stockroom graveyard...