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WiMAX Is Here, HP and Dell Choose to Play It Safe

While Toshiba, Acer and Lenovo, three of the leading PC vendors, have already introduced their support for the recently launched WiMAX wireless network in Baltimore, the two biggest names in the field, Hewlett-Packard and Dell, are yet to come forth with WiMAX support for their own notebooks. The two companies have ...

9 October 2008
05:08 GMT

HP Marks Slow Growth, Dell Picks Some Speed

As another quarter of the year ended, analysts already started comparing market shares and revenues to determine what company proved more successful while an economic crisis runs in the background. On the mobile PC market area, we're already accustomed to seeing HP holding on to the first position and Dell follo...

3 October 2008
05:32 GMT

HP's 18-Inch HDX18 Laptop Now Available

Last month, Hewlett-Packard, the leading maker of portable computer systems, announced the new HDX16 and HDX18 entertainment notebook PCs. Designed to deliver an incredible high-definition support in 16- and 18-inch form factors, the HP recently introduced portable systems are equipped with some of the latest in comp...

2 October 2008
09:11 GMT

Oracle Debuts on Hardware Market

Oracle Corp, the third largest software maker, announced yesterday its first hardware product, developed in collaboration with one of the worldwide leading system vendors, HP. Oracle's Chief Executive Officer, Larry Ellison, introduced the new HP Oracle Database Machine in a keynote addressed to nearly 43,000 Op...

25 September 2008
07:00 GMT

Nano-Powered HP Mini-Note to Go Against Atom Netbooks

Last month, VIA was reported to have received Nano CPU orders from leading notebook vendor HP, which was supposedly planning a new Mini-Note PC that would be powered by VIA's flagship processor. Recent speculation indicates that HP is indeed getting ready to finalize the rumored netbook, and that it will showcas...

24 September 2008
03:04 GMT

Rumor Mill: HP Is Closing VoodooPC

HP is planning to restructure its VoodooPC division – a brand that has recently made it into all the headlines with the release of the new Omen and Envy computer systems. It is yet unclear what the company’s plans are exactly but, according to the ongoing rumors on the Internet, VoodooPC could soon become...

23 September 2008
04:22 GMT

HP Shows VoodooDNA in New Gaming Mouse

In addition to the new HDX16 and HDX18 portable computer systems, and the TouchSmart IQ800-series PC, the leading manufacturer of portable computer systems, HP, has also announced today a couple of computer peripherals which, aside from their good looks, promise quite impressive specs. “HP’s new con...

16 September 2008
04:30 GMT

HP Launches New Notebooks and TouchSmart IQ800-Series

Today, HP has announced several new products designed to improve the quality of personal computing and to allow users to easily enjoy their photos, music and other personal content, while also delivering a reliable communication support. The company has introduced two new consumer notebooks, a personal desktop PC and...

16 September 2008
03:49 GMT

HP Printer Driver Update 1.1.1 Available

Apple has released a new update for users of HP LaserJet printers, this time addressing an issue where printing to an HP LaserJet may not work if you select a Printer Preset other than the "Standard" Printer Preset. No additional support for other printers has been added, but the update is recommended for all users o...

15 September 2008
13:11 GMT

Rahul Sood Speaks of Three Voodoo PC Products

Not very long ago, Voodoo PC, a company that is now part of the HP group, announced two new computer systems that immediately caught the attention of the public. And it’s only understandable, come to think of it, as the Voodoo Envy and the Voodoo Omen have been designed to deliver an impressive computing ...

15 September 2008
03:02 GMT

10-Inch Mini-Note from HP Looks Hot

It appears that HP's collaboration with worldwide famous designer Vivienne Tam will extend to even more portable computer systems coming from the leading manufacturer of notebooks. That's right, HP is expected to introduce even more of those red-colored, peony flowers-adorned notebooks we told you abo...

11 September 2008
04:32 GMT

HP Turns to Fashion with Special Edition Notebook

Fashion appears to be ever more present in the world of computer systems, as more and more systems vendors are releasing their own “fashionable” products. Design is one of the most significant aspects today's computer systems must take heed of, which is why HP has recently announced its decision to t...

10 September 2008
08:18 GMT

Impressive Demand Increase for HP's Mini-Note

When the netbook market was just budding, HP was among the first systems vendors to release their own small-sized portable computer systems. The debut of HP’s Mini-Note on the market took place earlier this year, on April 8. Thought of as the first competitor for ASUS' Eee PC, the new small portable comput...

1 September 2008
05:20 GMT

HP Announces 3 New Notebooks for Business Travelers

Hewlett-Packard, the leading manufacturer of portable computer systems, has announced today three ultra-portable notebook computers, including a 3-pound EliteBook, the company's smallest and lightest notebook with a built-in optical drive. A new high-performing, ultra-thin convertible tablet that measures only 1...

18 August 2008
09:17 GMT

Atom vs Nano - HP Places Order for VIA's Nano CPU

VIA, a well known manufacturer of x86 processors, is reported to have received NANO CPU orders from leading notebook vendor HP. Apparently, the Taiwanese-based manufacturer has already started shipping the processors to HP, although details regarding quantities aren't yet available.At this time, it is unknown wh...

15 August 2008
11:12 GMT

New Dream Color Products from HP

HP, the leading manufacturer of portable computer systems, introduced yesterday at SIGGRAPH a new portable system meant to expand the company's current DreamColor technology portfolio. The EliteBook 8370w Mobile Workstation with DreamColor Display has been designed to offer to professionals an exceptional color ...

12 August 2008
06:41 GMT

HP Working on 10-inch Netbooks

Hewlett-Packard is currently present on the sub-notebook market with its 2133 Mini-Note PC, whose availability the company announced back in April 2008. Since then, quite a host of other manufacturers, including ASUS, Acer and MSI, have launched their own Atom-powered netbooks. Given its different specifications and ...

7 August 2008
06:16 GMT

HP Inspired by Apple's iPhone

HP, the leading vendor of computer systems, is working on an array of new products, including notebooks, which will provide the same finger-tapping features that have made Apple's iPhone such a popular device. According to the Wall Street Journal, the company has high hopes that, within 18 months, it will be abl...

6 August 2008
10:52 GMT

Yahoo!, Intel and HP Form Global Cloud Computing Test Bed

HP, Intel and Yahoo! have set the basis of an organization whose purpose is that of creating a global testing environment to promote academic and entrepreneurial research in the field of cloud computing. The test bed will ideally reach a global scale but, for now, only six "centers of excellence," as they were named,...

29 July 2008
12:41 GMT

HP Spotted Defective Nvidia Chips Last November

Hewlett-Packard listed a number of 24 laptop model variations that are affected by the faulty Nvidia graphics chips. According to HP, the problem first appeared in November last year. The company published a list of potentially affected systems which includes Pavilion and Compaq Presario notebook models. As presented...

29 July 2008
05:11 GMT

HP Reveals Plans for Mini-Note 2.0

HP, a leading systems vendor and the company responsible for the Mini-Note 2133, has announced yesterday plans to release a new version of its high-end netbook that, since it is not yet officially termed in any way, we might as well call 2.0. However, unlike the previous product, the new "mini-note" will be designed ...

25 July 2008
06:06 GMT

Voodoo Brand Completely Assimilated by HP

The beginning of this past month marked the launch of two new computer systems under the Voodoo PC brand. The desktop Voodoo Omen and the Voodoo Envy 133 notebook were officially released during HP's "Connecting Your World" event. Because of their unique features, these two products have been enjoying critical s...

24 July 2008
04:09 GMT

Voodoo's Envy Might Just Be the Coolest Notebook

Once or twice, you might have found yourself wondering about which was the coolest notebook on the market. If that be the case, you're about to get an answer to that and, surprisingly enough, it has nothing to do with Apple's MacBook Pro, or MacBook Air for that matter. This is actually a notebook that will...

17 July 2008
04:02 GMT

Sun Integrates Java ME into HP iPAQ 900

Sun Microsystems has recently announced it has embedded its Java Platform Micro Edition (Java ME) into HP's iPAQ 900 Windows Mobile smartphone. This will allow the handset's owners to view emails in HTML format as well as easily access contact information. "We are excited to have worked with HP to delive...

10 July 2008
11:50 GMT

IBM Takes Server Market Leadership

According to the research and advisory firm Gartner, IBM has managed to take the lead in the server market. IBM's success marks the company's victory against competitor HP, which earlier this year was reported to have claimed the leadership precisely in the same segment of the market. These recent rankings ...

7 July 2008
10:18 GMT

SQL Injection Exploits Wimbledon Tennis Tournament Site

In the past couple of weeks we have seen a serious increase in SQL injection attacks. Although Microsoft and HP have provided ample guidance and tools to solve the problem with, there are still sites out there that get infected. The latest web page to be attacked is the ATP site (short for Association for Tennis Pro...

3 July 2008
07:08 GMT

IBM Info Gets HP Executive Indicted

Atul Mahotra joined the HP team two years ago, in May 2006, as VP (short for vice president) of the printing division. After just four months he was fired after he was accused of leaking private information from IBM, his previous employer, to his current employer. Mahotra was brought to justice and the San Jose court...

3 July 2008
03:06 GMT

HP Open Sources the Tru64 AdvFS File System

HP decided to help the Linux file system innovation by open sourcing its Tru64 Advanced File System, or AdvFS. This file system comes from Digital Unix (created by Digital Equipment Corporation) and is used by HP customers in mission-critical deployments. After several acquisitions, HP created HP-UX, a flavor of Unix...

24 June 2008
06:26 GMT

The Notebook Market Keeps Surprising Us

The market share registered by notebook sales during the first quarter of this year is meant to impress even the most optimistic analysts, even though everybody is aware of the fact that notebooks lead by far in PC sales these days. The year-over-year growth registered by all major notebook manufacturers, except for ...

19 June 2008
07:01 GMT

The Top500 Supercomputer List Released

The 31st Top500 supercomputer list was released today at Dresden, Germany, and it brings good news, both for some of the companies involved and for the environmentalists. The dominance is held by IBM, with 210 systems out of 500, as well as 5 of the top 10. The second company on the list is Hewlett-Packard, which has...

18 June 2008
11:18 GMT

Rahul Sood Goes Steve Jobs on New Voodoo Omen

We know that every hardware manufacturer out there is excited about a new product that comes out from the company's development line. Take Steve Jobs, for example. Each time Apple launches a new product, he gets all excited as he's trying to show the world how cool that product really is and how it is going...

17 June 2008
06:07 GMT

GTX 280 in SLI for HP's Blackbird 002

Perhaps we all saw this coming a mile away: as soon as NVIDIA went official with its new graphics card lineup, major system vendors like HP have rushed to release their own implementation of the new cards. Since HP also happens to be among those vendors that can pride themselves with a mean-looking desktop gaming rig...

17 June 2008
05:19 GMT

HP Still the Number 1 Notebook Brand

As most of you already know, the biggest players in the notebook or portable computers market are HP, Dell and Acer. A recent study by DisplaySearch has found that while the notebook market shrunk 6% from Q1 to Q2 this year, it was up 35% on-year in Q1 2008, with 31 million units shipped. According to the same study,...

13 June 2008
07:13 GMT

HP iPAQ 900 with WM 6.1 Available This Month

HP iPAQ 900, the smartphone first unveiled in the autumn of 2007, will be finally available for purchase at the end of June (more exactly, on the last day of the month), although it should have been released much earlier. This delay is definitely not a good thing, neither for HP nor for the mobile users that want to...

10 June 2008
10:01 GMT

New TouchSmart PCs from HP

One of the largest manufactures of all-in-one PCs is, without a trace of a doubt, Apple - and these days you can catch up with it and its latest endeavors at the World Wide Developers Conference held at Moscone Center in San Francisco. However, Apple is not the only player on the all-in-one PC market, since HP, Sony ...

10 June 2008
06:51 GMT

World's First Affordable Color-Critical Display Released by HP

For those of you that were, or still are, too busy with the Computex 2008 computer trade show or with Apple's World Wide Developers Conference 2008, you should know that HP is also holding an event, entitled Connecting Your World. Lasting from the 8 until the 11 of June in Berlin, this event is just the place to...

10 June 2008
06:11 GMT

HP Rolls out New Voodoo-branded Systems

HP has announced today, during its Connecting Your World event, a number of new product releases meant to improve on the company's already known product lineup. Starting with their consumer and business notebooks, and ending with their Voodoo PC brand, the company has rolled out a number of impressive additional...

10 June 2008
05:31 GMT

Microsoft Wins Biggest Live Search Distribution Deal in History

With all organic attempts to grow its share on the search engine market turned to dust and with a Yahoo marriage failed miserably, Microsoft is turning to desperate measures, suited for the desperate times it has to endure in the Google monopoly. The Redmond company announced that it has inked the biggest Live Search...

2 June 2008
12:16 GMT

Apple Hires Hot Shot Corporate Lawyer Charles Charnas

Apple has hired HP's leading legal corporate buyout specialist, Charles Charnas. He "only" led the $25 billion merger between Compaq and HP, so there's "some" reason to believe Apple is making a strategic acquisition sometime soon. "He's been known as one of the high-profile heavy hitter corporate lawy...

14 April 2008
16:46 GMT

Acer Becomes World's Number Two Notebook Vendor, Waves Good-Bye at Dell

Notebook manufacturing is serious business, given the fact that 2007 is the first year when mobile systems defeated desktop computers in terms of sales. The competition in harsh, with well-delimited markets, measured in the number of notebooks shipped. Market research firm DisplaySearch issued a report that unveils t...

6 March 2008
04:11 GMT

10 HP ProLiant Servers to Get a Facelift

One of the most important things that make today's server systems so powerful is the simple, yet vital concept of virtualization that allows them to run at the very same time several operating systems and a host of different applications, minimizing idle times this way and dramatically increasing productivity, w...

29 February 2008
11:03 GMT

Lenovo Europe Tries to Step Over Dell, HP

The European division of the Chinese PC manufacturer and vendor Lenovo is determined to transform the company in one of the top two computer vendors both in Europe and worldwide. According to Milko Van Duijl, president of Lenovo EMEA, the company was always focused on creating a bridge between the market leaders (s...

15 February 2008
10:00 GMT

The Lite-On Fire to Abruptly Increase the LCD Monitors' Price

The recent fire in the Lite-On LCD display production lines left the industry without an important raw material provider. The fire started on February 3 and caused about $7.72 million damage, but the most important aspect is that the other LCD manufacturers that would rely on Lite-On panels will have to look for othe...

15 February 2008
04:59 GMT

Lite-On Monitor Production Lines Caught Fire, $7.72 Million Damage Estimations

Hardware manufacturer Lite-On Technology has just confirmed that 14 of its LCD display production lines were partly destroyed in a recent fire. The incident seems to have been caused by an electrical short circuit in the Lite-On facilities based in Dongguan, Southern China. The fire started on February 3, and the com...

12 February 2008
06:38 GMT

HP iPAQ 210 With its 4 Inch Display Hits the Market

HP iPAQ 210, first announced back in September 2007, has now finally hit the market, bringing an elegant design, a powerful processor and a whole suite of mobile business applications. HP is one of the first companies in the world to produce PDAs and its experience is clearly visible in iPAQ 210. The new Pocket PC of...

1 February 2008
03:52 GMT

HP's Desktop Computers, Questioned by Chinese Farmers

A group of Chinese computer users rallied up in claiming that their computers are difficult to connect to the Internet, among other flaws they may have. Before you rush advising them to toss their computers out the window, I must say that they might have been set up.The above-mentioned bunch of users are in fact Chin...

31 January 2008
08:47 GMT

HP to Sell Penryn-Powered Pavilion Notebooks

HP has introduced a new version of their Pavilion dv2700t, Pavilion dv6700t and Pavilion dv9700t notebooks, powered by Intel's 45-nanometer processor, codenamed "Penryn". This was a quiet move, and the company did not even bother to announce its availability. However, the Pavilion dv2700t, Pavilion dv6700t and P...

28 January 2008
04:16 GMT

Forget About Asus' Eee, Get a HP Dual-Core Notebook For the Same Price!

Asustek's Eee sub-notebook was a real success. So real, that people merely bought it out of inertia, because it was thought to be powerful, cheap (yet priceless) and was the best pick when it comes to price versus quality. Few guys out there figured out that the IT market is in a perpetual change and the offerin...

24 January 2008
02:57 GMT

HP to Unveil Four New Desktop Computers

HP unveiled a new series of four desktop systems that aim especially at the multimedia sector. Three of these desktop PCs are dedicated to home theater owners, while the fourth is targeted at digital photography enthusiasts. The Pavilion Slimline s3330f is only a third the size of a normal desktop system, thanks to a...

14 January 2008
06:11 GMT

IBM Says Itanium Is Five Years Ahead of Its Grave

HP has made quite a fortune from selling Intel Itanium-powered servers. That is why the company should be worried, as rival IBM predicts that the chip manufacturer will phase the Itanium processor in the near future, as it tends to be less and less competitive on the market."The end of life for Itanium will occur in ...

10 January 2008
05:59 GMT




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