Industry News Desk

Dell in Laptop Push in India
Dell is going to start making laptops in India, its fastest-growing market. It already makes desktops there and is going to up capacity above the current 400,000 units a year.

Parallels at 1m and Counting
Parallels said Wednesday that its Desktop virtualization widgetry for the Mac, which lets Intel-based Apples run Windows or Linux along with Mac OS X, has sold more than a million copies, a nice chunk of the Macs out there. It is the largest-selling Mac utility and gives Mac users access to all those Windows programs it’s starved for.

Dell Gets Creative with Support
Dell has dreamed up a new fee-paying premium support service that will give North American consumers with issues with any of their in-warranty Dell products access to the same technical support team.

Lehman Suggests HP Tidy Up
Lehman Brothers figures HP could do with some more cost cutting and shift to higher-margin enterprise products.

Ballmer on Vista
“Windows Vista – a work in progress.” – Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer at a conference last week with 1,700 Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals. Microsoft is being pressured and petitioned to keep selling XP past its June 30 termination date.

DOJ Keeps its Eye on Yahoo! & Google
The Justice Department has reportedly been asking antitrust kinds of questions of Yahoo! and Google stemming from Yahoo’s experiment outsourcing some ad placement to Google.

Reiser Murder Case Goes to the Jury
The fate of Hans Reiser, the Linux file system programmer charged with murdering his estranged wife and hiding her undiscovered body in 2006 has gone to the jury after a five-and-a-half month trial. The seven-man, five-woman panel got the case Tuesday afternoon. They have their choice of first-degree murder, second-degree murder, manslaughter, or not guilty. They broke for the weekend Thursday without reaching a verdict.