Research
Dell
Dell wants its name to ring from the desktop to the data center. One of the world's top suppliers of PCs, the company offers a broad range of technology products for the consumer, education, enterprise, and government sectors. In addition to a full line of desktop and notebook PCs, Dell offers network servers, data storage systems, printers, Ethernet switches, and peripherals, such as displays and projectors. It also markets third-party software and hardware. The company's growing services unit provides infrastructure consulting, systems integration, asset recovery, financing, support, and training
Sony
Many eyes and hands are on Sony -- or, more likely, on its high-profit consumer electronics products and gaming systems. The company makes a host of other items, including digital and video cameras, Walkman stereos, and semiconductors. Sony, one of the world's top media conglomerates, boasts entertainment assets such as music (Sony Music Entertainment), motion pictures (Sony Pictures Entertainment and Sony Digital Production), DVDs (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment), and TV programming (Sony Pictures Television). Under the direction of Sir Howard Stringer, the firm's first non-Japanese leader, Sony's realigning its business and shedding some longtime traditions in its effort to right the Sony mother