Announcing its preliminary first-quarter results, Dell Inc said that earnings fell slightly and so it planned to lay off more than 8,000 employees over the next year as part of what it called "an ongoing restructuring". Dell had earned US$759 million, or US$0.34 per share, in the three months that ended on May 4. The layoffs, which represent 10 percent of Dell's global work force o...

It has been quite some time since the Dutch TV show, Kassa, has reported of Xbox 360 scratching discs. With about a 1000 complaints of faulty hard drives from Netherlands alone, Meglena Kuneva, the European Commissioner for Consumer Affairs has given a week’s deadline to Microsoft to respond to the problem. She threatens to go legal if this matter is not attended to a.s.a.p. [ V...