Dell

Did China spell doom for Dell?
Michael Dell returns to run the company he founded, but the battle he's fighting may have been lost years ago.
Where computers go to die
California's new electronics recycling program will treat monitors and flat screens like bottles and cans. But is that the best way to keep high-tech toxins out of the local landfill?
High tech's missionaries of sloppiness
Computer companies specialize in giving consumers lousy products -- it's the American way of techno-capitalism.
Microsoft, Mahir and money, money, money
A software superpower is declared a monopoly, free software rakes in billions and money makes the world go round: The year in tech.
The free PC is dead! Long live the free PC!
By driving the price of low-end computers to near zero, the free-PC movement is driving itself to near extinction.
Newsreal: Muddling through
Steve Jobs' latest spin on the "new" Apple might keep the troops in line, but can the company ever really advance again?
Bookend
Dodging Pamela Anderson Lee autobiographies and "Soul Aerobics" workouts at BookExpo, the tastes-great-less-filling successor to the late, unlamented ABA convention.

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