Dell accused of knowingly selling faulty PCs
Court documents reveal Dell had prior knowledge of bad components in PCs, The New York Times reports
Seagate releases first 3TB external desktop hard drive
The same drive can transfer files to Windows or Mac OS X machines
Cisco takes on Apple with Android-based Cius business tablet
Cisco Systems has entered the tablet market with the Cius, a business-friendly video tablet running Google’s Android OS
Women in the IT Channel: Elisabeth Vanderveldt
The vice-president of business development of Conamex International is one of CDN’s Top 20 Women in the Channel
HP brings all-in-one computing to enterprise market
The HP Compaq 6000 Pro All-in-One is the vendor’s first designed specifically for business users
Supreme Court strikes down one part of Sarbanes-Oxley
The court rules that it’s too hard to remove members of an oversight board
Hitachi Data Systems offers a storage cloud in your data centre
Hitachi Data Systems will install and manage storage, then charge per byte and per month
New Sybase mobile database key to SAP’s plans
SQL Anywhere 12 bolsters support for large-scale synchronization
Netbooks could suffer deathblow from iPad, tablets
Slate-style devices will outsell netbooks by 2012, Forrester forecasts. Another firm, DisplaySearch, offered up even short-term estimates in the tablet-versus-netbook battle
Apple iPhone 4: Design nerds triumph over usability
Apple has made some unprecedented design decisions that reflect the growing power and dominance inside Apple of the pure-design people, and a reduced emphasis on practical usability