The new Dell Inspiron Mini 1018 has just started shipping in Europe. Priced at £279 in the UK (that’s about $435 at today’s rate) or €279 in Italy ($355), the Mini 10 netbook features a curvaceous chassis covered in a sleek Obsidian Black and modeled after the Inspiron R series.Dell Inspiron Mini 1018It runs on a 1.66GHz Intel Atom N455 processor (FSB 667 MHz, cache L2 512 KB) and as you probably know already, the Inspiron Mini 1018 comes with a 10.1-inch widescreen WSVGA (1,024 x 600) display, has 1GB of DDR3 memory, 802.11n WiFi connectivity and a 160GB hard

Today, Dell have finally launched their long-awaited first smartphone, making the final step towards entering the smartphone market. The device in question, the Aero, is already available for sale in the US. For those of you who haven’t been following, it features a 3.5″ touchscreen and can be bought either with a 2-year contract with AT&T, in which case it will cost you $99.99, or unlocked for $299.99.The “first smartphone” statement may come as wrong to some of you, considering the Dell Streak. However, according to Dell, they consider the Streak a

Storage specialist 3Par is about to be acquired by Dell with the price set at $1.15 billion, according to Dell themselves in a press release today. The company in question was started about 10 years ago, and offers services such as highly virtualized storage arrays which help businesses improve their storage and offsource its management to a third party.The service basically allows companies to only pay for as much storage as they’re using, turning the servuce of storage providing into more of a utility one, better suited for budget flexibility. The company’s offers

Even though we’ve known Microsoft to be very eager on new business partnerships, it’s still quite impressive to see the manufacturers they’ve managed to line up for their upcoming Windows Phone 7. It seems that they’re taking the device quite seriously, as they’ve confirmed that Dell and HTC are among the developers for the upcoming Windows Phone 7, as well as ASUS, LG and Samsung – which we already knew about.We still don’t know when exactly the new OS will launch though – we’re still left with the rather vague description of

While Dell still haven’t announced the launch date of their upcoming Streak in the United States, they at least gave us some important information related to the device – namely its price. There’s also a special promotion on Dell’s website, which is running for the last day today, where if you register you’ll get priority access to ordering the phone.Those who’ve placed a pre-order should get a link with the phone’s purchase details today, which states that getting the handset with a 2-year contract from AT&T will set you back $299.99,

Here’s some interesting stuff from the HP stables. The computer maker seems to have been waiting for the launch of NVIDIA’s Quadro 5000M, the new Pro graphics solution. The hardware was unveiled only yesterday and the HP 17-inch EliteBook incorporated it under its hood.The computer maker is, in fact, the first to get this. The 5000M solution is being lined up for the 8740w EliteBook, promising to usher in 320 CUDA cores and a huge 2GB of dedicated memory in its performance. NVIDIA’s Quadro graphics processing units arrive based on Fermi architecture. It also boasts of

AT&T has been rumored to make the Dell Streak available on its network from July 19 onwards. Though the carrier’s pricing for the device has not been revealed, the phone will be available as an unlocked device for $500.The Dell Streak, which is a cross between a tablet and a smartphone, features a 5-inch WVGA display with 800×480 pixel resolution. It has Android 1.6 as its operating software, but it could also receive the Android2.2 update later.The gadget also packs a 1GHz Snapdragon CPU from Qualcomm and has an onboard storage capacity of 2 GB. External memory cards

Some of you may be aware of a lawsuit that has been running for quite a while between Dell and Advanced Internet Technologies – and just recently, the latter has accused Dell of concealing evidence related to the case in order to aid their position.This was made known by a report published in the New York Times, in which AIT claimed that Dell have violated a federal court order to produce several documents written by executives in the company. In the filing, it’s argued that Dell must have been able to establish better high-level communications than it has made clear

Dell has mentioned on the US product page on its official website that its Streak device will become available for sale in the country in late July. The gadget, which is a cross between a tablet and a smartphone, was earlier rumored to launch in the US on the AT&T network on July 19.The device, with a 5-inch WVGA screen and a resolution of 800×480 pixels, will pack a QSD 8250 Snapdragon processor from Qualcomm capable of clocking 1 GHz. It will run on Google’s Android platform, but it will only be available with version 1.6 of the operating during its launch. However,

Those in Europe may have been enjoying the Streak for quite a while now, but Americans just got to use the handset as it’s been made available on their market recently. So, if you live in the US and have been planning to get one of the new Streaks, you may want to read this to get an idea of what to expect from the device.One of the best features about the Streak is its large screen, spanning over 5 inches. It does seem a bit bulky for holding in your pocket though, but that shouldn’t pose that much of a problem for most users. The Streak also features a 1 GHz