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China’s biggest mobile phones carrier makes mobile phone companies maker bouncy, try to dominate mobile phone market in China, Apple will declare sells 500 million iPhone then Dell is developing mobile devices for China, event more China newspaper has show photos of its Dell Mini 3i smartphone.

Dell smartphone rumor has long been go around on electronic medias, according to source in Shenzhen said Dell official launched a new Mini 3i smartphone that will offer a full complement of music, games and other downloadable content. But Dell declined comment on the type of devices, said that only developing mobile products for China Mobile’s network.

Dell, the biggest world’s maker of laptop computers, would be just the latest computer maker to embrace smartphones after cancel to build multi media player, company see if tend the smartphone will get higher margins than laptop computers or multi media player, of course the smartphone have multi media player.

Source said new Dell Mini 3i was on-hand as part of the launch of China Mobile’s new Application Platform, 3.5-inch 360 x 640 pixel device with capacitive touchscreen was on display in China running the Android-based Open Mobile System (OMS), Chinese WiFi or they called WAPI and is strictly 2G GSM, a 3 megapixel camera, microSD slot, Bluetooth, and 950mAh battery.

As we don’t see other surplus, company makes it to be a progress in China and fitting with market condition. Rivalry will go on tight, which there Apple iPhone, BlackBerry, Acer and ASUS also do research for same market in China and hope share profits.

Dell’s computer apparently think children, they want to give best for child begins learning by using laptop computers, Dell has taken one of its Inspiron Mini Netbook a low-cost laptop computers model then company join with SquarePants’s television network to create the Nickelodeon for kids Edition.

Dell and Nickelodeon have teamed to make green slime design, used plastic to decorated around netbook body, but we see that resemble or the designing more fit to adult laptop computers, although the color are green mixes and made from plastically impress stuff, so it’s giving explanation that the kids loving green earth, it also has been designed with SpongeBob’s seal of approval.

Nickelodeon edition for kids bring Dell Mini10v netbook, using an Intel Atom N270 processor, a 10-inch color LCD screen, 1GB RAM, a 1.3 megapixel webcam, built-in Wi-Fi chip and a child-toting weight of less than three pounds. It also is programmed to serve up content from Nick shows to songs, videos, games and has a child-friendly graphic interface. Parents can monitor its use with an installed version of McAfee Family Security.

Dell press released wrote “Moms insisted that we deliver on three things when it comes to a computer for their children,” said Michael Tatelman, vice president, Dell Global Consumer Sales and Marketing. “First, help provide a safe computing experience. Second, provide superior educational content as well as a world-class entertainment experience. Third, partner with trusted brands. The Dell Inspiron Mini Nickelodeon Edition passes with flying colors on all counts.”

“We are thrilled to enter the Netbook space with a technology leader like Dell,” said Leigh Anne Brodsky, president of Nickelodeon & Viacom Consumer Products. “With the Dell Inspiron Mini Nickelodeon Edition, we want to provide today’s tech-savvy kids with a creative, fun tool to help kids excel while learning and entertaining themselves on the computer. Simultaneously, we want to give parents features to help ensure their kids are safe online. The Dell Inspiron Mini Nickelodeon Edition encompasses all of these things with the additive element of bringing Nickelodeon’s trademark slime to life in a new, unique way.”

Company make not for intensive computing, but the netbook works best as an ancillary computer, ideal for Web browsing and data streaming and kids can watching SpongeBob over a bowl of Cheerios. Parents can buy Dell Mini 10v starts at about $300, will available on Dell official Website and Walmart electronic store in October.

After going through a hard time in the last several months, now there are signs that companies dealing with personal computer (PC) industry will stop reporting lower sales.

In the past couple of months, hardware manufacturers such as Intel, Hewlett-Packard and Dell have recorded sales falls of one-fifth to one-quarter. Even the world’s largest PC software company,   Microsoft, for the very first time booked lower sales of its Windows software that led to large-scale layoffs. For that reason, analysts had predicted that computer sales would suffer a fall by four times greater than that during the dot-com kaput.

But now it seems that they have begun to enjoy a recovery. Intel which is based in Santa Clara (California) said the company recorded second-quarter sales of US$8 billion versus US$9.5 billion it posted in the same period last year, beating analysts’ expectations by US$700 million.

For the first time since the economic recession, Intel was fairly comfortable to provide a forecast for its current quarter, and the company said it expects revenue of US$8.1-8.9 billion. Earlier, analysts said Intel would book revenue of US$7.8 billion in this quarter.

Intel said the company’s second-quarter results were clearly better than expected, while in In April the company said that he thought the PC slump had reached bottom, and the company’s recent financial results seem to confirm this.

Being the world’s largest chip manufacturer, Intel helps set the pace for the computing industry, which is why analysts keep a close eye on the company’s take on the overall market. Increases in the sales of Intel’s chips tend to reflect higher computer sales for HP, Dell and others in the industry.

Intel has warned that businesses remain careful in buying new PCs considering that global economy remains sluggish. Consumers have been the ones who show more willingness to buy new computers, particularly laptops and their diminutive, low-cost cousins, netbooks.

Further Intel said that the company saw a strengthening through June, and expects the rising demand to carry over into the second half of this year. The company added that sales in Asia had stepped up, particularly in China, and that sales in the United States were solid. But overall the immediate fiscal conditions remain sobering for Intel.

During its second quarter, Intel’s net income fell to US$1.0 billion from the US$1.6 billion it reported during the same period last year. Intel earned 18 cents a share, down from 28 cents, beating analyst estimates by 10 cents.

Those figures exclude charges tied to a US$1.45 billion fine levied against Intel by the European Commission for anticompetitive practices in the PC market. With the fine included, Intel posted a loss of US$398 million or seven cents a share.

Yet, Intel reported higher-than-expected gross margins and a quarter-to-quarter rise in sales of chips, boosted by healthier sales of laptop chips.

All major PC companies maintain hope that the release of Microsoft’s new version of its Windows software will coax businesses and consumers to upgrade their computers. Dubbed Windows 7, the software should hit the market in October. Microsoft expects Windows 7 to be part of a catalyst.

The PC doldrums have put intense pressure on some of the industry’s largest players. Dell, in particular, has had a steeper decline in sales than its main rivals HP and Acer because it is more dependent on PC shipments to business customers.

To bring its costs more in line with those of HP and Acer, Dell has spent much of the recession increasing its use of contract manufacturers to build its computers. That strategy runs counter to Dell’s traditional approach of producing PCs at its own factories. Dell expects large businesses to begin upgrading their computers in the months to come.

Shares of Intel climbed 2% to US$16.83 just before the company’s earnings announcement. In after-hours trading, Intel’s stock jumped more than 7% to US$18.04.

Company has share gone through the recession by chasing profits from laptop computers market, Dell giving you a new All in One Computer, it’s released Dell Vostro range of small business computer for people in China, India, France, Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom and United States.

Below Dell press released notes:

“Small businesses around the world are constantly looking to do more with less, and IDC predicts that by 2013 small form factor, all-in-one and ultra-small form factor desktops will make up nearly 38 percent of the overall desktop market,¹” said Richard Shim, research manager for IDC’s Personal Computing program. “Solutions that help organizations migrate to space-saving desktops are well positioned to benefit from this trend.”

The company will start to sells Dell Vostro All in One Computer at $699 the Vostro All In One Computer is available today in China and Japan, July in South Asia, Australia and New Zealand and India.

All in One Computer customers in North America and Europe, Middle East and Africa will be able to order the product in August, see more photos below.

Dell has gone through the recession by chasing profits from market segment, so investors were understandably unimpressed when the company declared on this week that it expects to report lower second quarter gross margins.

The company gave investors a hazy update to its business one day ahead of a meeting with financial analysts at its Round Rock, Texas, headquarters. Overall, the company said that demand for computers appears to have stabilized. In addition, Dell predicted that revenue in the second quarter, ending July 31, should be slightly higher than its first quarter revenue of US$12.3 billion.

Meanwhile, Dell warned of a moderate decline in gross margins during the second quarter. It reported second quarter revenue last year of US$16.4 billion. Investors digested these disclosures and knocked close to 4% off Dell’s shares in after-hours trading, placing its stock price at U$12.52.

The company continue to believe that customers are deferring IT purchases and will see demand return to more typical levels at some point. In the meantime, it will continue focusing its our energy and resources on the operating initiatives that will improve the company, and position it for future success.

The global economic recession has proved challenging for Dell with the company losing large amounts of market share to rivals like Acer and Hewlett-Packard. Dell depends on sales of computers to businesses more than its competitors, and businesses have been more reluctant than consumers to purchase new laptop computers.

Like many laptop computers makers, Dell is waiting for Microsoft to release its new Windows 7 operating system in October, which could spur business sales.

Dell executives have explained away the market share losses by saying the company intended to place a premium on keeping profits as high as possible during these tough times. As a result, analysts have kept a close eye on Dell’s margins to gauge the effectiveness of its strategy.

Dell attributed the lower margins to “higher component costs, a competitive pricing environment, and an unfavorable mix of product and business-segment demand.” The company tends to make more money off business laptop computers, so slow sales to corporate customers can hurt its profits.

Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters expect Dell to post revenue of US$12.5 billion in the second quarter. Such a total would mark Dell’s first sequential increase in revenue in a year. It reported US$16.4 billion in revenue during last year’s second quarter.

Some company like Acer, Adobe, ASUS, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Qualcomm, and Texas Instruments try for the latest Chrome OS update from Google, but Dell didn’t commit to offering the Linux-based OS in future products, it would consider testing Google’s upcoming Chrome operating system, Dell said on Friday.

“Dell constantly assesses new technologies as part of managing our product development process and for consideration in future products,” Dell Corp spokesman David Frink said in an e-mail.

Google is working to support the Chrome OS is a thin version of a Linux-based operating system that is designed for people who mostly rely on the Web for computing. It is designed for devices like netbooks, which are low-cost laptop computers designed to run basic computer applications like the internet Web browser.

Some sources said, Dell is also rumored to be testing Google’s Android operating system, which is mostly designed for new gadgets like smartphones and mobile Internet devices.

There has been a lot of bewilderment regarding Google’s hardware partners on the Chrome OS. Google’s list of partners included chip makers like Freescale Semiconductor, Qualcomm and Texas Instruments, but Intel was missing, even though it actually has been working with Google and had prior information about the Chrome OS.

Dell currently offers Canonical’s Ubuntu operating system with its desktops and laptop computers. Canonical’s Web-centric Ubuntu version is Ubuntu Netbook Remix, which is designed for quick access to Web applications and join on network.

Dell Inc reportedly has been developing small gadget like a pocket-sized gadget for tapping into the Internet, that will run on Google Inc’s Android software.

The early prototypes are described as slightly larger than Apple Inc’s iPod Touch, which is similar to the iPhone but without cellphone capabilities.

It was repoted also that ell may begin to sell the gadget by the end of this year, although the plan may be postponed or entirely revoked.

The development effort is one of the first experiments by a big-name PC maker in a nascent category of products known as mobile Internet devices, or MIDs, that are designed to fill a perceived gap between mobile phones and laptop computers.

Possibly Dell will use chips based on designed licensed from ARM Holdings PLC, but Dell spokesman said the company does not currently make any devices that use ARM-based chips.

Separately, people informed of the effort said Dell started developing the device last year, after the company aborted an attempt to compete with Apple in the music-player business. Some of the engineers working on the music player were then assigned to help develop the small mobile device.

Earlier this year, Dell appointed an executive, Ain McKendrick, to be in charge of mobile Internet devices at the company. The Dell spokesman said that as the general manager of mobile Internet devices at Dell, Mr. McKendrick’s role involves looking at future products in play for future consideration.

But another source said Dell has considered selling the product through cellular carriers — much as Dell, Hewlett-Packard Co. and other computer makers have begun marketing low-end portables called netbooks through cellular providers.

Dell has also been developing several Android-based smart phones that it plans to start selling later this year, the source said further.

Dell said the company’s net profit dropped 63% to US$290 million (15 cents per share) in the first quarter of 2009, from US$784 million (38 cents per share) in the same period of 2008.

Without figuring in restructuring and real estate expenses, Dell which is based in Round Rock (Texas) and depends on selling laptop computers to businesses and government bodies, should have net profit per share of 24 cents.

During that period, the company’s revenue fell 23% to US$12.34 billion from US$16.08 billion, as revenue in all of its main businesses stepped down including the 34% fall in desktop computer sales and the 20% decerase in laptop computers PC sales.

Dell has spent years on trying to reduce its dependence on PCs by shifting its product mix toward data center equipment like server computers and storage systems. It has also tried to bolster its services segments and expand its consumer business.

At the same time, the company has since a long time before held several negotiations on making acquisitions, but it has decided to wait and see during the recession and not to take any significant step.

The company, which was founded by Michael S. Dell who is currently the company’s chief executive,  acknowledges that its cost structure has swollen in recent years, making it vulnerable compared to Hewlett and Acer of Taiwan.

Acer has low costs and this has proved beneficial during the depression as its lower prices have helped it gain market share. Technology analysts said, Acer is now tied with Dell as the second-largest PC maker in the world after Hewlett and Packard.

Companies in the US have finally stopped cutting information-technology budgets after reducing their spending sharply for several months, and the change is likely to cease revenue falls at technology companies like Hewlett-Packard Co and Cisco Systems Inc.

Forrester Researchspending said that spending on computer hardware, software and services used to be the fastest-growing segments of the economy, which climbed by 9% in 2006 and 13% in 2007.

Yet, the increase in corporate technology spending, which is the main source of revenue for tech giants like  International Business Machines Corp, Dell Inc and Oracle Corp, dropped to 8% in 2008, and it is expected to decline 3% in 2009.

It seems that the shift toward stability will not emerge when H-P and Dell report quarterly earnings over the next two weeks. The two companies are expected to announce declines in profit and revenue from a year earlier. But interviews with more than a dozen chief information officers and corporate technology executives who oversee tech spending indicate that a range of US companies have stopped reducing.

Anyway, the viewpoint is better. The IT department at Notre Dame University was told earlier this year to prepare three budgets for fiscal 2010, which begins in July. One cut the $25 million IT budget 5%, another cut it 2%, and the third built in a 2% increase.

Intel said the current quarter is slightly better than the company’s expectation as the economy which has hit personal computer (PC) industry is likely to have ended, and today the company has higher confidence that the company’s full-year sales will be similar to historical pattern.

Intel is keen to become an indicator of PC and server market trend considering that it has the position as the key chip supplier to large hardware manufacturers, and every good cheer from Intel will be hailed by Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Seagate and others.

The company has gathered most recent financial data, which is approximately the half of the way to the second quarter, and the data supports the company’s confidence. Intel also said that industry forecasts that PC sales will drop sharply in 2009 could be too pessimistic.

While the news reports say the European Commission fined Intel a record 1.06 billion euros on Wednesday for abusing its dominance in the computer chip market to exclude its only serious rival, Advanced Micro Devices.

The European Union (EU) is fining Intel a record €1.06 billion or $1.45 billion due to violations of antitrust rules in Europe. The record fine surpasses that of the €497 million fine originally levied against Microsoft.

“Intel has harmed millions of European consumers by deliberately acting to keep competitors out of the market for computer chips for many years,” European Union Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes said to media in a statement.

Intel was ordered to cease the illegal practices immediately and has three months from the notification of the decision to pay up, and ordered it halt illegal rebates also other practices to squeeze out rival AMD. As we see may be Intel will appeal and this will drag the litigation on for years as did Microsoft.