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Pocket-sized Dell Mini 10V
Friday, July 3rd, 2009Pocket-sized Dell Mini 10V
The Arrival of Netbooks has turned the PC market upside down as diverse models and players are coming in short span of time. This segment triggered the competition when Acer introduced its first Netbook model Acer Aspire One in to the market. Dell took further long time for foraying in to Netbooks market. They started with Dell Inspiron Mini 9 then followed by Mini 10,12 and now the advanced Mini 10V.
The hapless performance of Mini 9,10 and 12 forced Dell to come up with a robust model, which can capture some market share in this segment. The drawbacks of the former models were the lack of good memory and hard drive space. Mini 12 was expected to become a leader however; its limited memory slot and hard drive pushed them out of the competition. (Dell Inspiron Mini 12 has 1GB DDR2 memory slot and 80 GB Hard Disk)
Mini 10V Tech specifications
Processor – Intel® AtomTM N270 (1.6GHz/533Mhz FSB/512K L2Cache)
Operating System – Microsoft Windows XP
Memory – 1GB,DDR2,533MHZ
Hard Drives – 160GB SATA HDD 2.5 inch 5400RPM
Display – 10.1″ Widescreen 1024 x 600 WSVGA (WLED)
Apart from these, Mini10V comes up with 1.3 MP webcam, Blue tooth module and for power there are 3 cell & 6 cell Li-lon batteries.
Battery Performance
With the 3-Cell battery , it gives a max of 3 hours and 6-cell battery exhaust after 6.5 hours.
Price – $375
Sweet rewards from tweets
Monday, June 22nd, 2009Twitter is growing by leaps and bounds each day as more and more users are realizing its use as a marketing tool. Twitter started out as a simple microblogging tool for users to stay in touch by answering about the question, What are you doing?. It is now being used widely by companies as a means of promoting their new products, sharing their news & views, posting job requirements and keeping in touch with customers.
Recently, the computer giant Dell, revealed in one of its blog posts that more than $2 million has been generated in revenue from @DellOutlet, one of its Twitter sites. Here is how Dell has been using Twitter.
Dell identified early that Twitter is an effective means of communicating with customers. Dell Outlet, the sales division of Dell started tweeting in 2007, using Twitter as a means to attract customers by extending exclusive offers, discounts, clearance events and new arrival information.
Users who follow Dell on Twitter receive messages when discounted products are available at the company’s Outlet Store. Those who are interested will immediately click to purchase the product or they might forward the information to their friends.
Dell has been able to compute the revenue generated by Twitter users by tracking the clicks that came from Twitter to its site, which resulted in sales. The figure $2 million is a relatively small amount for a company like Dell. However, it goes to show that small companies can also reap rewards by using Twitter as a marketing tool. Recognizing the benefits of using Twitter, Dell has created Dell.com/Twitter to allow customers to choose the most relevant Twitter account for them to follow.
Thus, Twitter as a sales/promotional tool is no doubt invaluable to small and large companies alike; given proof of the kind of revenue it helps to generate.
Twitter continues to gain popularity and expand its user base day by day as more and more corporate companies are diving in to make the most of it. However, Twitter has yet to come up with a business model which could generate revenue for Twitter too. It is speculated that they might introduce paid accounts or take a share in sales generated from Twitter.
As the long awaited business model takes its own time in materializing, Twitter users are quite happy tweeting their way to success.
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