Moneyquote: "Even us jaded hacks, who think we've seen everything in the business, can find our chins hitting the trackpad. So it is with the Dell legal settlement last week. It may have a familiar ring to it, as it concerns a kind of business arrangement almost 20 years old - but don't let that fool you. It's the scale of the amounts involved that is truly jaw-dropping. The SEC settlement casts the entire PC market in an entirely new light."

Offering certified performance on a wide range of workstation applications, the Dell PrecisionTM T3500 fuses Intel® Xeon® technology into a single-socket workstation that won't break your IT budget. Core features include:

Oops. Problems with vendors and Android.

HP raining on Dell's attempts to get more enterprisey.

Hardware sales looking up for Dell and HP, but people cautious of relaxing just yet.

The main thing is: Dell is going balls-out to lead in "the data center of the future" game: virtualization, private cloud, etc.

Ken Drachnik now director of product marketing for KACE at Dell.

"In the mad-dash of Android mania, it looks like Dell’s Streak got caught with its pants down."

Virtualization CTO now at Dell doing cloud stuff.