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Android Might Get Adopted by Netbook Makers

According to the latest news on the Web, the interest in Google's Android operating system for mobile phones seems to have extended to more companies in the IT industry. We already learned that some of the largest phone makers in the world intend to come to the market with Android based mobile phones this year, ...

1 April 2009
05:24 GMT

Blur Technology to Hit CCTV Systems

Closed-circuit television (CCTV) is blamed by many as an affront to the privacy of decent and honest citizens, despite the fact that authorities praise it as an effective means of catching crooks and criminals. To calm some of the protests on CCTV, scientists at Hewlett-Packard have devised a method of “conceal...

2 February 2009
05:08 GMT

Symantec and HP Lose Employees' Personal Information

According to security breach notices received by the Office of the Attorney General in Maryland, recent incidents at both Symantec and HP compromised the personal information of a number of employees. This was the result of two laptops containing sensitive, though unencrypted data, being stolen. HP announced (PDF fi...

12 December 2008
10:29 GMT

HP Includes Long-Lasting Enviro Batteries in Its Laptops

Hewlett-Packard announced that it would start offering a new line of “Enviro” laptop batteries in early 2009. The products are aimed at users wishing to enhance their machine with longer-lasting and more sustainably designed batteries. The new Sonata lithium-ion batteries have been tested by HP and B...

10 December 2008
02:54 GMT

HP Marks Higher Sales, Slightly Lower Earnings

Hewlett-Packard officially announced on Monday having recorded $33.6 billion in revenue during the fourth quarter of 2008, registering a 19 percent growth compared to a year ago, or 16 percent after adjusting for currency effects. For the quarter, HP marked $2.1 billion profits, translated into 84 cents per share, sl...

25 November 2008
03:33 GMT

HP Goes Greener with Two Desktop PCs and a Display

Hewlett-Packard introduced on Monday two new personal computers and a color display, all meant to help users reduce carbon footprint. The two computers the company unveiled, HP Pavilion Verde Special Edition a6645f and HP Pavilion Phoenix Special Edition a6655f, are powered by AMD energy-efficient processors (AMD Ath...

21 October 2008
04:13 GMT

HP Denies Allegations of Undermining ASUS

Yesterday, the news brought word that Hewlett-Packard had reportedly threatened its partners not to take orders from ASUS, otherwise the company would penalize the maker. It was said that HP's reaction was provoked by the fact that ASUS had set the goal to become the fourth largest personal computers vendor in ...

17 October 2008
05:50 GMT

HP Reported to Ask Partners Not to Work with ASUS

Hewlett-Packard seems determined to prevent ASUS from becoming the fourth largest notebook vendor in the world. HP has been reportedly threatening its manufacturing partners that it would reduce orders in case they worked with ASUS as well. The news comes from notebook market sources and HP hasn’t commented on ...

16 October 2008
05:22 GMT

HP Compaq 2230s, a Safe Business Class Notebook

The HP Compaq 2230s notebook has been designed mainly for those users that spend a lot of their time on the road. This new machine is powered up by an Intel Core 2 Duo CPU working on a Centrino platform. Although we're not talking about latest generation technology here, Hewlett-Packard's notebook is not a ...

14 October 2008
04:38 GMT

HP Elects Raj Gupta for Its Board of Directors

Hewlett-Packard announced on Wednesday that its board of directors would welcome another member starting with January 2009, namely Raj Gupta, chairman and chief executive officer of Rohm and Haas Company. The total number of HP's board members will rise this way to eleven, ten of them being outside directors.&ld...

25 September 2008
03:49 GMT

HP Rolls Out HP G60 15.6-inch Notebook

Hewlett-Packard launched the HP G60, its first laptop to feature a 15.6-inch display, yet it made it pretty quietly. The new mobile machine is powered by an AMD Turion X2 RM-70 Dual-Core Mobile Processor which has a 2.00GHz core frequency and 1MB level 2 cache. The notebook can pack up to 3GB of DDR2 memory and inclu...

23 September 2008
06:10 GMT

HP to Cut Off 24,600 Jobs After Acquiring EDS

Hewlett-Packard announced on Monday that its restructuring plans under CEO Mark Hurd include cutting around 24,600 jobs over the next three years, mainly in areas in which HP and its newly-acquired firm Electronic Data Systems overlap. The company started the discussions for the acquisition of EDS somewhere in May an...

16 September 2008
04:46 GMT

HP Boosts Battery Life to 24 Hours

Hewlett-Packard announced today that it managed to resolve one of the biggest problems users of mobile devices face: battery life. According to HP, its EliteBook 6930p is able to run for a full 24 hours without recharging if its configuration includes an ultra-capacity battery and few other options, one of them being...

9 September 2008
03:12 GMT

HP Introduces the Fastest Offering for Oracle Optimized Warehouse

Hewlett Packard announced today the introduction of the industry's highest-performance, most energy-efficient blade offering aligned within the Oracle Optimized Warehouse initiative for the 1-to-4-terabyte market area. The HP BladeSystem for Oracle Optimized Warehouse is developed based on today's reference...

25 June 2008
03:06 GMT

HP Plans to Reduce Carbon Footprint of Data Centers by 75%

Hewlett-Packard revealed some of its plans to develop technologies that would help reducing power usage in data centers. The company also announced that it intends to create software and an open online community with the purpose of offering support to the manufacturers that seek to discover more sustainable consumer ...

4 June 2008
09:13 GMT

HP Gets Two CPUs on a Siamese-Twin Server Blade

Hewlett-Packard has designed and rolled-out a siamese-twin CPU server blade intended to provide the necessary computing power to those huge data centers which lack the space to spread out.HP's new ProLiant BL2x220c G5 has been set up as the first blade that features two independent servers thrown together inside...

28 May 2008
09:35 GMT

Hewlett-Packard to Unveil Teenager-Friendly Computer Line

This fall, Hewlett Packard will introduce a completely new line of products primarily targeted at young computer users. According to Ameer Karim, director of HP's future and innovations group, the new computers will be designed by teenagers and will meet youngsters' needs in terms of fashion and functionali...

17 May 2008
05:41 GMT

HP to Buy Electronic Data Systems for $13.9 Billion

Hewlett-Packard announced that it would buy services outsourcing EDS company for about $13.9 billion. The news was broken today in a joint press statement from the two companies. HP will completely buy EDS in order to strengthen its position on the market and compete with rivals such as IBM."The combination of HP and...

13 May 2008
11:15 GMT

The Missing Link in Electonics: HP's New Circuit Thinks Beyond Ones and Zeros

A group of researchers at the Hewlett-Packard facilities announced that they have developed a new circuit element that is alleged to imitate some of the human biological functions. According to the report, the new device is called a memristor and will account for smaller and more rapid computers in the near future.Me...

5 May 2008
03:19 GMT

Quad-Core Processors Go Mainstream in HP's Desktops

The much-hyped quad-core processors are usually associated with high-end computing and budget-busting price tags. However, the quad-core behemoths have started to show up in consumer desktop systems manufactured by system integrators such as Hewlett-Packard, Gateway or eMachines. Such consumer-level systems are power...

30 April 2008
04:57 GMT

HP Unveils dc5850 and dx2450 Desktop PCs in AMD's Business Class Family

System manufacturer Hewlett-Packard has just introduced two new AMD-powered desktop systems to its workstation portfolio. The two new offerings are the dc5850 and dx2450 models, the first units built for AMD's Business Class program. According to the company, the HP Compaq dc5850 Business Desktop PC mixes optima...

29 April 2008
04:56 GMT

Dell Enters Business With Chinese Local Retailers

Dell has announced that it plans to increase its presence on the Chinese retail market via its Suning electronics chain. The company also plans to double the number of Gome stores that sell the company's desktop and notebook computers.Moreover, the system manufacturer today announced that it will also tighten th...

17 April 2008
10:58 GMT

HP Delivers 1 Billion Colors Display Technology

Hewlett-Packard is readying a new color display technology that is allegedly able to deliver 1 billion colors for a life-like viewing experience. The new technology, developed in collaboration with DreamWork Animations, will be deployed across all the company's product lines.The new display technology will play ...

17 April 2008
03:35 GMT

HP Intros High-End Workstations to its Line-Up

System vendor Hewlett-Packard has introduced two extreme performance workstation offerings aiming at the film, video and broadcast industries. The unveiling took place during a keynote speech at the NAB 2008 expo in Las Vegas. HP's updated high-end workstations, the HP xw8600 workstation and the HP xw9400 workst...

14 April 2008
11:35 GMT

HP's Mini-Note Refresh, to Come With Wither Intel Atom or VIA Isaiah Chips

Hewlett-Packard's miracle sub-notebook in the 2133 Mini-Note series has just been released, and rumors about a mid-cycle refresh have already started to emerge. The sub-notebook is one of the most impressive low-cost notebooks on the market and is extremely suitable for both kids and businesses.The notebook is p...

11 April 2008
03:41 GMT

Dell Joins the Low-Cost Notebook PC Pack

The low-cost, low-performance sub-notebook market continues to grow at an accelerated pace, and Dell is reportedly making the latest adjustments before jumping into the sub-$500 notebook bandwagon. The company will join the pack of manufacturers including ECS, Everex, Asustek and HP.Asustek, the real originator of th...

10 April 2008
04:01 GMT

AMD's Barcelona Chips Hit the Shelves in Eight Distinct Models

Chip manufacturer Advanced micro Devices has just announced public availability of its Barcelona quad-core server processors. The chips have finally arrived at the local retailers, after six months of continual delays because of the crippling TLB erratum bug affecting its silicon."We're off to the races now, and...

9 April 2008
08:26 GMT

HP Goes Official With Its 2133 Educational Sub-Notebook

Hewlett-Packard has finally introduced its rumored low-cost educational sub-notebook, dubbed 2133 Mini-Note. Previously spotted last month, the device is HP's first shot at the ultra-mobile PC market and represents an optimal balance between low price and computing performance.The 2133 will reportedly hit the ma...

8 April 2008
04:59 GMT

HP Slaps Its Customers With Virus-Infected USB Stick

The Australian division of Hewlett Packard issued a warning regarding the optional USB stick the company ships with its ProLiant servers. According to the company, the stick comes not only with drivers for the hardware components, but also with a free copy of malware-infected software.The USB sticks come from a batch...

8 April 2008
04:14 GMT

New ProLiant Servers and CRM Portfolio from Hewlett-Packard

Two power-efficient ProLiant servers were announced today by HP, along with the first Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor based server. The servers are 20% less expensive to help small and medium businesses, and HP also announced that it offers an expanded customer relationship management portfolio, remote access technol...

31 March 2008
11:00 GMT

HP Unveils 3-Megapixel Elite Webcam With Stereo Speakers

PC vendor Hewlett-Packard has just unveiled a high-resolution webcam for video-conferencing and instant messaging. The new creation is extremely unusual, given the fact that HP was not much of a player on the webcam market until now. As if this was not enough, the new offering comes in a less-conventional shape, that...

31 March 2008
09:33 GMT

HP Joins Forces With Citrix for Advanced Virtualization

Server vendor Hewlett-Packard has teamed up with remote access software company Citrix for the implementation of advanced virtualization into the 64-bit HP ProLiant server lineup. According to the two companies, the new ProLiant server solutions will come with an enhanced version of the Citrix XServer software.The tw...

28 March 2008
17:31 GMT

Dell, HP to Face Notebook Battery Shortage After LG Chem Fire

The recent fire that devastated LG Chem's battery production unit in Ochang on March 3rd triggered a battery shortage in the notebook PC industry. The company is the second biggest South Korean battery manufacturer and supplies its parts to major notebook vendors such as Dell and Hewlett-Packard.In order to figh...

26 March 2008
07:54 GMT

HP Releases Pavilion dv3000 Into the Wild

PC vendor manufacturer has just released its latest multimedia notebook offering, the Pavilion dv3000. The entertainment notebook PC has been presented as "The One" during HP's advertisement campaign and is pitched at multimedia enthusiasts that are always on the road.The new dv3000 series of notebook PCs are al...

21 March 2008
17:21 GMT

HP to Introduce Linux-Based Computers

HP will start shipping Linux-based notebooks and desktop computers in the second quarter of the year. The company has been reported to introduce PCs with a pre-installed version of Novell's Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop operating system on the selected markets worldwide. The two companies will start working on t...

18 March 2008
05:02 GMT

Hewlett-Packard Adds Color Splash to the HP Pavilion dv2800t

PC and server vendor Hewlett-Packard has just released the HP Pavilion dv2800t Artist Edition notebook series, that aims at adding some extra personalization to users' laptops, as well as the latest Intel Centrino mobile technology.The HP Pavilion dv2800t got its artistic touch as the result of a Global Design C...

4 March 2008
09:22 GMT

AMD Is Ready to Ship the First Batch of Barcelona CPUs

Chip manufacturer AMD is ready to launch and ship its Barcelona-based Opteron server processors. Although they have been slated for official launch quite a while ago, the processor silicon was affected by a crippling bug that would occur when the system is working at full load. Advanced Micro Devices is currently sel...

29 February 2008
02:59 GMT

It's Official: HP Was the Biggest Chip Cruncher in 2007

PC and server vendor Hewlett-Packard bought $15 billion worth of semiconductors during the last year, which positions the company as world's biggest semiconductor purchaser for the last year. The report has been issued by market analysis company Gartner, and includes a top of the greatest chip crunching companie...

26 February 2008
04:55 GMT

HP to Report $28.5 Billion in Q1 Revenue

Hewlett-Packard has just published its revenue for the three month period that ended on January 31st. The posted revenue looks more like bragging about it than delivering public information, but that's what happens when your pie charts show net revenue of $28.5 billion.Described as "strong results", Hewlett-Pack...

20 February 2008
07:04 GMT

Compaq 2133: HP's Leaked Ultra Mobile PC

Remember the rumors about an ultra-mobile personal computer from Hewlett-Packard? It seems that the device is as real as possible and will come with some nifty features that will make it yet another worthy MacBook Air killer - supposing it will finally come out on the market.The mystery notebook got itself a name - i...

20 February 2008
06:04 GMT

HP Is Readying Its Own Ultra-Mobile PC

Rumor has it that HP is secretly cooking a new product to join its mobile family. However, it will be far from what HP got its customers used to: no superior computing power and no big display. On the contrary, the new device will be more of an ultra-mobile computer than a notebook, and chances are that it will strik...

19 February 2008
03:41 GMT

LG Chem to Investigate the Mystery of Exploding Laptops

Mid-January was not quite the right time you were the owner of a notebook computer. The incidents that took place back then scared and dazzled laptop users, and I received many e-mail messages back then with further reports or questions. Just in case you don't remember what happened back then, let me re-iterate ...

14 February 2008
05:45 GMT

HP to Expand its Unix-Based Blade Server Offer: the HP Integrity BL870c is Here!

Server builder HP has just released its first mid-level Unix-based blade server, the HP Integrity BL870c, powered by a custom-made version of the Itanium processor to power the four-socket server. Estimated at a retail price of $8,000, the blade server will allow the companies to migrate from the old Unix-based techn...

13 February 2008
09:28 GMT

HP Cooks Quad-Core, Barcelona-Based Proliant Servers

Server vendor Hewlett-Packard has been reported to work on an AMD Opteron (Barcelona) version of their ProLiant DL585 server line. The decision has been made as AMD is already sampling the B3 version of their quad-core processor. The B3 silicon fixes a notorious bug that occurs when the system is working at full loa...

7 February 2008
09:06 GMT

HP Steps on Dell's Neck as Worldwide PC Shipments Reach 270 Million

The PC industry is continuously cooking and shipping more and more units in order to meet the increased demand on the market. It seems that the industry has set a new record for the last year, or at least, that is what market analyst Gartner wants us to believe.Worldwide PC shipments reached 75.9 million units in the...

7 February 2008
06:35 GMT

HP to Unveil Enterprise-Class Disk Arrays

Hewlett Pachard has just announced the availability of a new family of entry-level disk arrays with enterprise-class features. The HP StorageWorks 2000 Modular Smart Array (MSA2000) line of products is comprised of low-cost Fibre Channel and iSCSI disk arrays designed to work especially in virtualized server environm...

6 February 2008
09:02 GMT

HP to Resurrect Dead Inkjet Printer Cardtridges

Eco-lover Hewlett-Packard has introduced a new technological process that will help the company produce new cartridges out of raw materials obtained from recycling the used ones. I have previously told you about the C2C (cradle to cradle) products lifecycle and it seems that using it does not bring popularity amongst...

31 January 2008
03:21 GMT

Dell, Sun to Quarrel over Blade Servers

PC and server vendor Dell last week announced the availability of a new blade chassis and server. It seems that each time a new server kicks in, the allegedly perfect equilibrium between the major server players (HP, IBM, Dell and Sun) snaps and all hell breaks lose.This is somewhat normal, as the server business is ...

29 January 2008
05:08 GMT

HP to Introduce Fully Wireless Notebook

PC and server vendor Hewlett-Packard has introduced the company's first thin mobile client. The notebook works in conjunction with a centralized server that is linked to it via a wireless connection. Hp introduced two desktop thin clients, namely the Compaq t5730 and t5735 as an addition to the Compaq 6720t. Whi...

26 January 2008
04:47 GMT

Party Spoiler: HP to Offer Desktop Computers Featuring 16 GB of SSD

More and more PC and notebook users are switching from the old spinning platters to the latest trend in storage: solid-state drives. Except for the fabulous price, the greatest showstopper in adopting the solid-state drives is the fact that they have a limited capacity and the largest drive available only provides 12...

23 January 2008
06:17 GMT


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