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Dell’s Cloud-Friendly Project Ophelia Inches Closer To Release As Testers Receive Early Units

Google’s $35 Chromecast dongle may have made all the headlines this week, but the folks in Mountain View aren’t the only ones working on curious gadgets that plug into your TV’s HDMI ports.

Dell showed off its Android-powered Project Ophelia dongle all the way back in January, and it managed to turn a few heads… until its tentative launch window came and went without much fanfare. Now, though, it looks like early devices are finally on their way to testers ahead of a full launch in the coming months.

Not exactly familiar with Project Ophelia? Let’s flash back to CES 2013 when Dell showed it off for the first time – long story short, you plug Ophelia into your TV (any other display with an HDMI input) and Android 4.0 fires up so you can mess around on the web and download apps from the Google Play Store. Of course, that concept isn’t exactly new: Countless tiny Android devices that plug straight into your television have popped up on crowdfunding sites and Chinese bulk ordering sites for what feels like ages now.

Ophelia’s big differentiator, though, is its support for Dell’s Wyse cloud computing tech, which allows users to (among other things) remotely access files stored on PCs or servers and connect to Citrix or VMware-powered virtual machines. The company’s eagerness to show off Ophelia’s enterprise chops could go a long way in justifying the device’s roughly $100 price tag, but what’s even more interesting is the very fact that a huge PC manufacturer is moving to embrace such a strange little segment of the market.

Considering the state of the PC market, though, it’s not hard to see why a company like Dell would put together something as peculiar as Ophelia. PC players have been feeling the squeeze that comes with declining demand over the past months since people are starting to give up more traditional computers for mobile devices. Dell definitely isn’t immune to this sea change, either – its most recent earnings report revealed that its end-user computing division (which accounts for PC sales to consumers) dipped 9 percent from last year. Dell’s Ophelia may just legitimize what is now a largely underwhelming class of gadgetry, thanks to its potential prowess as both a consumer and enterprise device, but it may take more than an aggressive price point and some nifty new features to make Ophelia into something worth owning. For Dell’s sake, here’s hoping Project Ophelia doesn’t meet the same fate as its Shakespearean counterpart did.

Michael Dell Vows To Stay At Dell Regardless Of The Outcome Of His Offer To Take The Firm Private

After promising to sell his shares at a discount and increasing the price of his offer, Michael Dell, founder of Dell, has today vowed to stay at the firm regardless of the success of his bid to take the company private.

This is not a surprise, given that Dell owns a large equity stake in the company. For him to step back if his plan to take the struggling computing giant failed would almost be odd; given how much of Michael’s personal fortune is tied up in the company, to fully step back would be the functional consignment of his wealth to others.

Who would be comfortable with that?

In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Dell stated that he, in the language of the paper, “wouldn’t sell assets or commit to any leveraged recapitalization as some shareholders have advocated.” This means that Michael would not take part in the plan advocated by activist investor Carl Icahn, that would see a tender offer put forth for most of the shares in Dell corporation at a price slightly higher than what its founder has offered.

Michael Dell wants to take the company private, to give it space to reform, and rebuild its product line and business service offerings. The only current competing offer, via Mr. Icahn, would not grant the Dell company that flexibility, though, it would greatly boost the per-share revenue of the equity that Icahn would control after newly acquired debt was used to fund the repurchase of other shares.

Michael Dell and his partner Sliver Lake recently boosted their per-share offer for Dell shares to $13.75 from their former offer of $13.65. That small margin was the target of criticism when it became known. As I reported at the time:

How can Michael Dell and his partner think that they can get away with such a pathetic sweetening of their former offer? Because what Icahn has in mind for Dell is complex and not in the best interest of the corporation. The firm needs time as a private entity so that it can rebuild its OEM business and focus on expanding its business services arm. It cannot do that with sufficient flexibility if it is chained to quarterly earnings reports.

Given what Michael Dell has said to the Journal, either Dell shareholders accept his offer at the August 2 meeting, or perhaps Icahn won’t have access to enough shares to execute his plan. This essentially limits the options of shareholders to two: Accept what the founder has in mind, or sit adrift.

Ironically, the company continues to trade at a discount to both offerings, signaling that the market lacks confidence in either plan to reach conclusion. Time is short, and this chapter is all but closed for the famed OEM.

Top Image Credit: Dell Inc.

Dell’s Days as a Public Company Will End With a 13-Cent Dividend Payment

Computing giant Dell is running up against the last few days of its existence as a public company. Soon to be privately held as the result of a $25 billion buyout approved last month by shareholders, Dell said today that one of its last official acts before delisting its shares on the Nasdaq will be to pay shareholders a special dividend of 13 cents.

CEO Michael Dell, who, along with private equity firm Silver Lake, is buying out the company he founded in his college dorm room in the 1980s, agreed to add the special dividend on Aug. 2, as the result of a drawn-out wrangle for control of the company with activist investor Carl Icahn.

The deal is expected to close before Nov. 1, which is two weeks from today. Once it does, the dividend will be paid, and the shares will formally cease trading.

One piece of business that will follow: The board of directors will shrink from 10 members to three. According to a Bloomberg report and since independently confirmed by AllThingsD, the new board will be comprised of CEO Michael Dell, along with Egon Durban and Simon Patterson, both managing directors at Silver Lake.

At this, let’s look back on Dell’s history as a publicly traded company. While it has had a lot of challenges in its recent past, it’s worth remembering what a wealth-generating machine Dell has been since its 1988 IPO.

Have a look at this Google finance chart. Over its 25 years and change of trading as a public company, Dell shares have risen by more than 13,000 percent versus a 900 percent return for the Nasdaq over the same period. Given the longest possible view, it has been an impressive run. (Click to make bigger.)

Microsoft Says Not All Windows 8 Apps Can Run on Xbox One

With just over a month left until the Xbox One launch, the rumors about as-yet-unannounced details continue to fly.

Two weeks ago, the word was that the Xbox One’s bundled Kinect camera could be used to harvest lucrative data about console owners and their homes – a claim that Microsoft vehemently denied – while leaving the door ever so slightly ajar in case its policies change.

There appears to be a larger morsel of truth to the latest rumor, sparked by the Dell website and noticed by Engadget yesterday. “With all your favorite Windows 8 apps able to be run on and synced to your Xbox One, now your phone, desktop, tablet and TV can all give you a unified web and entertainment experience,” the page still reads.

A Microsoft spokesperson said that’s not quite true: “The suggestion that all Windows 8 apps run on Xbox One is not accurate,” they wrote in an email.

That’s not a confirmation that any specific apps will work across both devices without additional fiddling on the developer’s part, of course. And the company has said in the past that the similarity between the Windows and Xbox operating systems should make it possible to write Xbox apps that strongly resemble their Windows counterparts. But it leaves open the possibility of universal apps that could help prop up the Windows 8 ecosystem with Redmond’s robust gaming brand.

Dell Inspiron i17r-2877MRB With Intel Core i5-460M 2.53GHz Processor, 17.3″ Display, 6GB DDR3 Memory, 500GB Hard Drive, Blu-Ray Combo – Mars Black

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Processor and Memory:
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Hard Drive and Multimedia Drives:
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Audio, Video and Graphics:
SRS Audio Enhancement with 1X3 Watt Subwoofer
Intel HD Graphics

Connectivity:
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Dell gives the money back to the shareholders, goes private in $24.4 billion deal

“Dell Inc. on Tuesday said it reached a deal to take itself private, in a buyout that marks an unofficial end to the era when a handful of young entrepreneurs made PCs the dominant computing device,” Anupreeta Das and Ben Worthen report for The Wall Street Journal.

“Under the terms of the agreement, Dell stockholders will receive $13.65 in cash for each share of Dell common stock they hold, in a transaction valued at approximately $24.4 billion,” Das and Worthen report. “The price represents a premium of 25% over Dell’s closing share price of $10.88 on Jan. 11, 2013, the last trading day before rumors of a possible going-private transaction were first published.”

Das and Worthen report, “The transaction will be financed through a combination of cash and equity contributed by Mr. Dell, cash funded by investment funds affiliated with Silver Lake, cash invested by MSD Capital, L.P., a $2 billion loan from Microsoft, rollover of existing debt, as well as debt financing that has been committed by BofA Merrill Lynch, Barclays, Credit Suisse and RBC Capital Markets, and cash on hand.”

Read more in the full article here.

Dell “sits in third place in a PC market in decline, having failed to capture the recent booms in smartphones or tablets,” Tim Bradshaw reports for The Financial Times. “After Mr Dell stepped back as chief executive in 2004 and handed the reins to Kevin Rollins, the PC maker was hit by setback after setback: laptops with faulty batteries, missed Wall Street forecasts, falling margins and an SEC investigation into accounting fraud related to its partnership with Intel, which eventually led to a $100m settlement.”

“By the time Mr Dell returned to lead the company in February 2007, Apple had just unveiled its iPhone,” Bradshaw reports. “Although Mr Dell proudly pronounced that ‘”it feels like 1984 and I am starting over again,’ the post-PC age had already dawned.”

Read more in the full article here.

MacDailyNews Take: Once Dell shareholders approve the deal, Michael Dell will have officially followed the advice he once gave to Apple: “Shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders.”

The irony doesn’t get much thicker.

This will also mark the end our long-running, “Apple now worth X times Dell’s market value” articles.

Boom, you got him, Steve!

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Fred Mertz” and “Jack F.” for the heads up.]

Beleaguered HP takes $8.8 billion writedown on Autonomy; forecasts profit miss on slumping Windows PC sales

“Hewlett-Packard Co. took an $8.8 billion charge citing ‘a willful effort to mislead investors and potential buyers’ at Autonomy Corp., the software company it agreed to purchase last year for $10.3 billion,” Aaron Ricadela reports for Bloomberg.

“More than $5 billion of the total charge is due to accounting practices, which were disclosed by a senior executive at Autonomy after founder Mike Lynch departed, Hewlett-Packard said. Autonomy’s U.K. spokesman George Lockett didn’t have an immediate comment,” Ricadela reports. “Former Hewlett-Packard Chief Executive Officer Leo Apotheker agreed to buy Autonomy, the second-largest U.K. software maker, to expand in cloud-computing and add software that searches a broad range of data, including e-mails, music, videos and posts on social networks such as Facebook Inc.”

Ricadela reports, “The shares of Hewlett-Packard fell as much as 12 percent in early trading… [HP] is down 48 percent this year. Also today, Hewlett-Packard forecast fiscal first-quarter profit that missed analysts’ estimates amid a continuing slump in personal computer sales. Earnings excluding some items will be 68 cents to 71 cents a share for the period, which ends in January, Hewlett-Packard said in a separate statement. Analysts on average had estimated profit of 85 cents a share, according to data compiled by Bloomberg… The earnings report came less than a week after Dell Inc. reported fiscal third-quarter revenue fell 11 percent and PC sales dropped 19 percent, amid competition from Apple Inc.’s iPad…”

Read more in the full article here.

MacDailyNews Take: It’s like a Laurel & Hardy movie: Meg keeps trying to “turnaround,” but the steering wheel keeps coming off in her hands. Meanwhile, Apple long ago moved to flight, so Meg’s road is a dead end.

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