Round Rock-based Dell Inc. has filed a lawsuit that accuses Hitachi and at least five other companies that make optical disk drives of conspiring to fix prices of their products from 2004 to 2010.

Dell is claiming the title of world's thinnest, fully-featured 14-inch laptop that includes an optical drive for its upcoming XPS 14z notebook 4 / 4 The XPS 14z features a slot-loading DVD burner ...

on eight companies involved in a cartel linked to the supply of optical disc drives to computer companies Dell and Hewlett Packard. The commission said Wednesday the companies illicitly colluded ...