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• Dell fixing Alienware M11x laptops with broken hinges

  Dell has acknowledged the problem of broken hinges on some Alienware M11x laptops and is asking customers with the issue to contact the company for a resolution.

• Lenovo expects to beat Dell in PC sales by year's end

  Lenovo's chairman believes the company will overtake Dell to become the world's second-largest PC vendor by the end of this year.

• Sorry, tablets. Laptops still dominate the enterprise.

  Bruce Smith is feeling some tablet pressure. As director of computing services for Cummins Inc., Smith helps the company's 40,000 employees get the right computers for their jobs.

• Dell partners with China's Baidu to launch smartphone

  Dell has partnered with China's largest search engine Baidu to launch a smartphone, in a move that could help both companies tap the country's growing mobile phone market.

• WiLan sues Apple, Dell, HTC and others

  Canadian patent licensing company WiLan has set its sight on a handful of technology companies, filing a patent infringement suit against Apple, Hewlett-Packard, HTC, Dell, Novatel, Sierra Wireless and others.

• Storage shipments keep surging, IDC says

  Enterprises and service providers spent more money on storage in the second quarter, emboldened by growing IT budgets, research company IDC will report on Friday.

• University tests ERP on new Dell cloud

  University of Kentucky CIO Vince Kellen is considering moving some of the university's SAP work to a cloud environment, which would make him a relatively early adopter of ERP in the cloud.

• Tech Ed 2011: Australian data centre makes no economic sense, Microsoft says

  Despite plans flagged by Dell and Amazon to establish Australian data centres, Microsoft has quashed any speculation it will do the same.

• VMworld brings flurry of third-party product launches

  While VMware had no shortage of new and updated products to debut at its VMworld conference, being held this week in Las Vegas, many VMware partners and competitors introduced their own offerings at the show as well.

• Dell offers hosted apps for SMBs

  Just one day after Dell announced its first infrastructure-as-a-service offering, the company is jumping deeper into the cloud. Dell will offer a family of hosted software applications for small and midsized businesses, through partnerships with Salesforce.com, Microsoft, Intuit and others, the computer maker announced Tuesday.

• Dell to launch public cloud service this year

  Dell will launch its first cloud infrastructure service later this year through a partnership with VMware, continuing its push to move beyond PCs and into higher-margin software and services.

• SMB server buying guide: The major players

  Today's server offerings are no longer strictly tailored for the enterprise. As the small to medium business (SMB) sector become more IT dependent, tier one vendors are beginning to package server solutions for the mid-market.

• Wall Street Beat: Megamergers, earnings roil tech

  Against a backdrop of economic uncertainty, acquisitions and earnings news from the world's top PC makers (Hewlett-Packard, Dell and Lenovo), the biggest Internet business (Google), and a major handset maker (Motorola Mobility) marked major realignments in tech this week.

• Fast Five: this week in IT, 19/08

  Your hand-picked five-minute wrap up of the biggest Australian IT stories of the week.

• Dell's Australian data centre expected in under a year

  Dell will seek to use its forthcoming Australian data centre — expected to launch within the next 12 months — to create new Cloud and hosting services for its local customers, according to the company’s A/NZ chief, Joe Kremer.