I remember him telling me two things – first, there was no need for tape, that everything would be disk.

Dell has announced that they have developed to computers tat will be made for the quad-core Xeon (Clovertown) processor.

Heading into London this afternoon for the Delivering The New PR conference tomorrow.

A small dream of mine came true. We’ve been preaching an ecosystem of tools for some time now. We’ve helped customers stitch them together in interesting ways.

Apple updated its flagship MacBook Pro notebooks with Intel Core 2 Duo processors today, claiming an enormous leap in performance over the previous generation.

A blazing Dell laptop forced workers at Yahoo to leave their workplace while firefighters responded to the scene.

All sorts of opinions are flying around about Dell’s recall of over four million laptop computer batteries announced Monday.

The now-famous footage of a Dell computer exploding in front of attendees at a Japanese conference has led to the revelation of many more overheating units causing the computer maker problems for a period of years.

So Dell’s getting a bit of a thrashing in the blogosphere following the launch last week of one2one, their first public blog.

Since others are saying this in a more measured, politically-correct fashion, let the client-side guy be clear.

Back in the early 1990s, when I worked in communications at Allergan, Inc., the company introduced a new silicon intraocular lens, the artificial lens used to replace a bad organc crystalline lens during cataract surgery.

So Dell has decided that it can no longer stick its head in the sand and pretend it’s not being flamed by bloggers everywhere.

Oh, oh, this is becoming a trend. A human being on Dell’s Web site? Calling Jeff Jarvis, calling Jeff Jarvis! Oh, he already chimed in. Steve Rubel did too and says the same thing.

There was a report last week of an exploding computer at a conference in Osaka, Japan. It seemed to be the real deal – there were pictures of a flaming laptop – but I dismissed the story. Surely, I thought, someone had tinkered with it and, intentionally or not, caused the mishap. Now I’m not so sure.

Dell has given midsized businesses an upgrade in status with the launch of a new IT services plan called Platinum Plus. The service will also feature the capabilities of Google Earth Pro for real-time tracking of IT issues.

News that Dell is leveraging its partnership with Google to offer premium customers a new service utilizing Google Earth’s mapping technology.

In a second big announcement for Dell this week, the computer maker will be pre-installing voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) provider Skype’s software on its new line of XPS mobile computers. Last week, Dell and Google announced an agreement to integrate search capabilities and Mozilla Firefox browser.

The rumored deal between Dell and Google that will place Google’s presence and software on Dell’s OEM machines became official with Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s announcement.

Dell has won an important victory over DE Technologies, a Virginia firm that holds a patent so broad it could cover all e-commerce. A federal district judge declared parts of the patent as too “indefinite” and approved some measures of Dell’s request to have it rendered invalid.

Dell Computers put a little kibosh on Intel yesterday, announcing in its first quarter earnings release that it will introduce servers powered by Advanced Micro Devices. Reuters reports that in a dim market, Dell and AMD shares soared on the news, while Intel dropped.

You may have heard of the Dell Computers spyware allegations involving My Way Search Assistant. But a story is making the rounds (posted on a blog from last July) that Dell charged a customer $49 to remove the unwanted program from his computer.