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Dell Accuses Drive Vendors of Price-fixing Scandal

Dell seeks damages as it claims it paid over the odds for optical disk drives from Samsung, Sony, Hitachi and others.

Survey: Bright Outlook for Business and Tech

A survey by Dell and Intel finds startups and small businesses in the U.S. that harbor a bright outlook for sales and finances in the coming year are looking to technology investments to fuel their continued growth.

Gates Like Tablets, Taxes; Dreads China

Despite rampant software piracy abroad and withering competition and market churn at home, Bill Gates remains bullish on the technology industry in general and, in particular, Microsoft’s tablet and operating system efforts.

Zenith Infotech Confident in Appeal Chances

Zenith Infotech is scheduled to go before India regulators to appeal the barring of its officers from trading in the public stock markets. The company’s chairman, Rajkumar Saraf, says the Securities and Exchange Board of India overstepped its bounds. A loss could prove devastating to the cloud computing company.

Dell Reseller in Dutch Over Sales to Syria

Dell is scrambling to explain how one of its largest Middle East resellers managed to sell hundreds of Dell laptops, tablets and desktop PCs to the embattled Syrian government in violation of long-standing trade embargoes.

New Schumer Bill Takes Aim at Patent Trolls

We already know what companies like Google Inc. and Cisco Systems Inc. think of patent trolling. Turns out, some politicians aren’t particularly fond of the questionable practice, either.

Obama’s FCC Nominee Likely Good for Channel

Tom Wheeler may be better known to wonky Beltway insiders than to those in technology, but his appointment Wednesday by Pres. Obama to head the FCC should be good news for the channel.

Blue Coat Distributor Fined for Sales in Syria

The security vendor today issued a statement acknowledging that Dubai-based Computerlinks ZFCO has been penalized for the “unlawful diversion of Blue Coat ProxySG appliances to Syria” in 2011.

Investors’ Lawyers Probe Tech Data Books

A law firm has launched an investigation on behalf of a group of top investors to ascertain whether a number of Tech Data officers and directors “breached their fiduciary duties.”

Huawei No Longer Interested in U.S. Market

After months of allegations and denials regarding its potential as a threat to U.S. national security, Huawei officials say they are giving up efforts to expand into the U.S. market and will instead focus on ‘the rest of the world.’