Category: IT - Published: August 20, 2007
NEW YORK (Reuters) - IBM has agreed to sell Sun Microsystems’s (SUNW.O: Quote, Profile, Research) Solaris Operating System software to IBM’s customers in a deal that pits the competing computer hardware makers against shared rival Hewlett-Packard.
Financial terms of the deal, originally announced on Thursday, were not disclosed. IBM will distribute the software with certain of […]
Category: IT - Published: July 23, 2007
Apple is now once again holding third place in the US PC market, sales figures from market watcher IDC have revealed. A return to form? Not quite, since its 5.6 per cent share is well below the double-digit share Apple commanded in the 1980s and early 1990s. Apple was also tied for third place with […]
Category: IT - Published: May 27, 2007
Hewlett-Packard said Friday that it hired David Roberson from rival Hitachi Data Systems to head HP’s data storage business.
Roberson starts his new job on May 30 and succeeds Bob Schultz, who has been running HP’s StorageWorks business after his appointment in January to senior vice president and general manager of the newly formed HP Enterprise […]
Category: IT - Published: May 11, 2007
HP today announced a blade-specific service that pairs customers with on-site technical experts who work closely with IT departments to develop customized plans and recommendations for application and business needs.
The HP Proactive BladeSystem Service also includes HP expertise and best practices for blade environments and data center needs such as power and cooling, IT infrastructure […]
Category: Multimedia - Published: May 9, 2007
Hewlett-Packard has long stated its intention to support both Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD–the two next-gen formats vying to succeed DVD. Today, the company has unveiled plans to ship PCs that can both read and write to Blu-ray, and can read HD DVD discs. The PCs are the first announced to feature LG’s much-anticipated Super […]
Category: Mobile - Published: May 7, 2007
Some images emerge of what it could be the first one notebook for the gaming extreme of HP: Pavilion HDX concentrating of technology in format 20″wide.
In the last days we have to you marked, more resumptions, many of the next notebook HP bases to you on the platform Saint Intel Rosa, but the multinational American […]
Category: IT - Published: May 2, 2007
PALO ALTO, Calif., May 2, 2007, HP is awarding 172 K-12 public schools and two- and four-year colleges and universities in the United States and Puerto Rico more than $7 million in mobile technology, cash and professional development.
The grants, part of the 2007 HP Technology for Teaching grant program, are designed to improve student achievement […]
Category: IT - Published: April 30, 2007
Faced with flagging sales and intense competition from HP, Dell has proposed to shed the direct sales model that enabled the PC maker to dominate the market for years.
In an internal email memo sent to Dell employees worldwide, founder and CEO Michael Dell said the company needed to move beyond the direct model, under which […]
Category: IT - Published: April 26, 2007
PALO ALTO, Calif., April 26, 2007 – HP today announced enhancements to its Unified Cluster Portfolio to help simplify and accelerate the configuration, deployment and management of clusters for high-performance computing (HPC).
HP Cluster Platform Express, a pre-configured cluster system that offers shortened delivery times and reduced integration costs, now features HP BladeSystem c-Class servers. The […]
Category: IT - Published: April 23, 2007
Hewlett-Packard has announced that the company is introducing a new line of business multifunction inkjet printers called Edgeline. What makes these printers special is their efficiency: they’re so thrifty with ink that HP isn’t planning to sell them at all. You could rent one, though! See, the printers use a new technology where the print […]