Dell PR dialed up Jeff Jarvis today. I guess it took a BusinessWeek story for them to finally move on this.

BusinessWeek covers the whole Dell v. Jarvis saga with a full blow-by-blow account. However, more importantly …

Computer industry giants Dell and Microsoft are tag teaming with National Lampoon Network (NLN) to wade through college campuses looking for talent. Online entertainment community TalentMatch joined them as they search for the next big star during the “Dis-Orientation Casting Tour.”

The router market is growing and growing. According to a report published by Dell’Oro Group, the router market recorded the highest quarter-over-quarter growth rate it has experienced in over 4 years.

Results from a survey conducted by the University of Michigan were released today. They showed that in the second quarter, customer satisfaction for Dell PCs dropped.

Round Rock, Texas computer giant Dell missed projections during the 2nd quarter and suggested the 3rd quarter will also fall short. Sales for the Texas Tornado of computer manufacturers appears to have slowed down.

For people who plan to upgrade to Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 before the end of the year, Dell is offering pre-configured server, storage and software packages and professional migration services.

The world’s biggest PC maker has shuttered online message support forums that were once the core of a high-quality customer service offering.

If you’ve been following Jeff Jarvis’ interesting experiences in his dealings with Dell, the PC maker, in trying to get his laptop repaired, Christopher Carfi has a great commentary in his latest podcast that extends this story, looking at what Dell’s done with their US customer support forums.

The University of Washington will test a combination of hardware and software to try and make legal music downloads the norm.

The computer company will help deliver Napster’s legal music download service to university campuses.

Michael Dell, founder and CEO of Dell Computers said he’d like to put Apple’s OS on his brand of computers, giving his customer additional choices. This would be great for Dell and PC makers everywhere and could certainly crimp the style of the Seattle slew but would Apple every go for it?

While most heads of PC makers cowered from speaking on the record, due to their fear of Microsoft, a certain Texas-based executive spoke out.

John Battelle notes that Google’s market capitalization is now just north of 80 billion dollars, making it the largest media company on the planet, overtaking Time Warner.

A US-based salesperson for Dell attempted to discourage customers from buying IBM computers from Lenovo Group.

Though more shipments should take place than previously predicted, PC makers will be confounded by a slowdown in corporate replacements.

Hundreds of developers at Microsoft and SAP will work together on a new product designed to link together their business software …

Dell’s CEO announces the addition of 2,000 jobs to its Indian operations in Bangalore, while several US states see unemployment rise above the national average.

Dell’s workstation and consumer desktop lines will be among the first to include the enhanced performance enabled by Intel’s new dual-core processor technology.

The European PC market drove up sales for the 1st quarter. Industry leader Dell led the way although their growth dropped below 20% for the first time in 3 years according to a new report from Gartner.

Dell executives tomorrow will reiterate expectations for fiscal first-quarter 2006 revenue and earnings per share, as well as the company’s plans to grow from $49 billion to $80 billion in annual sales.