Technology Innovation Enters New Era

Technology Innovation Enters New Era

The imagination of customers and millions of interactions with them every day are at the heart of groundbreaking new Dell products and services introduced today. “It used to be that people had to keep up with technology, but now it is about technology keeping up with their imagination,” said Michael Dell, Chairman of Dell Inc. “Our customers are becoming their own publishers, they choose how they want to be entertained and informed and it is their direct feedback that will drive Dell’s innovation.”

Mr. Dell unveiled a new high-end gaming desktop, two flat-panel monitors, a product bundle designed to “gear up” any home and a new service available later this year. “Innovation not only includes the development of new products, but also new services and how technology is integrated into our lives,” Mr. Dell said during a keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show.

The Fiber Future: Mr. Dell described how the next “killer app” will be what a customer does with technology instead of a piece of new technology. Two enablers, he said, are an increase in penetration of fiber-speed networks to the home and technology hardware and software that work more seamlessly together. Fiber penetration is in its infancy, but there are pockets of great progress, he said. Consumers currently have the ability to move 100 megabits of information per second in some countries, including Denmark, Japan and France. And Singapore has a stated goal of offering consumers 1 gigabit per second by 2015.

“The Internet has more digital content available than ever before – video, music, online gaming. DSL and cable broadband are on the rise, but a great digital experience requires something far faster: fiber,” Mr. Dell said. “I applaud the telecommunications companies that are driving fiber to the home, and I encourage the entire telecom industry to step up and make such fiber available much more broadly.”

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