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Dell Australia has selected office stationery and IT supplies chain, OfficeWorks, as its first local retail partner.

Dell is primed to enter the mobile-phone arena with a smartphone, but it will need an Apple iPhone killer to really make a dent in the market, analysts said.

The trend toward users buying notebook computers instead of desktop PCs is helping boost market share for companies that have a strong retail presence, such as Hewlett-Packard and Acer, according to analysts.

Dell reported revenue of nearly US$16 billion for the fourth quarter of 2008, up 10 percent from a year ago, but fell short of analyst estimates.

Voice over IP (VoIP) provider Freshtel Holdings has signed a letter of intent to offer its whitelabel service with mobile phone vendor Effortel to enable mobile calls over the Internet.

Imagine a transponder tagged to a bottle of shampoo tracking its whereabouts in a supermarket, or a "smart" shelf informing staff to replenish the selection of cream cheese, or a mini-PC attached to the shopping cart allowing shoppers to scan their own purchases, call up bargains and navigate the store.

Linux software vendor Red Hat Inc. plans to officially announce Monday two enterprise applications it has been developing and selling for the past year: a content management system and a portal server.

Why should you give online marketplaces a cut of your revenues just for attaching a few wires to your supply chain?

Sears, Roebuck & Co. and French retailer Carrefour SA are two of the founding members of the GlobalNetXchange business-to-business marketplace that launched in February. Sears CIO Jerry Miller spoke with Computerworld senior editor Carol Sliwa about the marketplace's progress.

The Internet is creating a new group of online upstarts that hope to capture a small percentage of your spending. Forming electronic marketplaces for everything from logs to office supplies, hundreds of new venture-backed startups are dreaming of redirecting the spending flows of worldwide supply chains, eventually creating mighty rivers of revenue for themselves--all without ever touching a product.