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• HP targets ‘application modernisation’ from Chch shop

  Legacy systems, often poorly documented and written in obsolete languages, can be expensive and risky to renew.

• HP agrees to settle backdating suit

  Hewlett-Packard on Monday agreed in principle to resolve the stock-options back-dating suit facing Mercury Interactive, which it acquired in 2006. HP has agreed to pay US$117.5 million (NZ$154 million).

• HP in frame for Cusmod

  Hewlett-Packard is believed to have won an NZ Customs contract to provide initial planning for the replacement of the core Cusmod system.

• IRD laptops were not encrypted

  Inland Revenue laptops, some of which are expected to be among 106 computers that could not be accounted for in a department asset check, are not encrypted to protect any data they might contain.

• HP thrives off Kiwi drive to mobility

  Hewlett-Packard has bested its worldwide notebook market-share lead in New Zealand by a wide margin as consumer and business users migrate to mobile computing in force.

• BlackBerry rumours: HP to buy Symantec?

  I just got a mysterious one-line BlackBerry message from a well-placed tech-industry figure. It was a single, terse question in the subject line, no body: “Do you think HP will make a play for Symantec? ... I do.”

• Tasting a dollop of HP's software sauce

  One of the worst things that can happen to a journalist is to arrive at a conference to find the convener seems as lost about the purpose of the event as you are. That happened to me in drought-stricken but humid and soaked Brisbane, at the Hewlett-Packard Software Universe conference.

• Hewlett-Packard first quarter profit jumps

  Hewlett-Packard tops Wall Street's revenue and earnings expectations in the first quarter of its 2007 fiscal year.

• HP takes ‘hard line’ as 60 staff pursue grievance

  Sixty Hewlett-Packard staff are pursuing a personal grievance claim against the company, after it withdrew a superannuation fund, according to current and former staff.

• Kiwi organisations explore future storage trends

  The Bank of New Zealand’s John Baddiley knows that in 2009 he and his team will be separated from their datacentre.

• Borland and HP stay mum on global software deal

  A worldwide deal between Hewlett-Packard and Borland appears to endorse Borland’s application lifecycle management (ALM) strategy — but neither party is prepared to talk about it.

• IBM holds lead on Top500 Supercomputers list

  IBM has maintained its lead, and its bragging rights, over rivals in the number of supercomputer systems it operates throughout the world.

• Dunn, four others, charged in HP scandal

  Ousted Hewlett-Packard chairman Patricia Dunn, a former company lawyer, and three outside investigators were charged on Wednesday in California on felony charges related to the conduct of an investigation to track down news leaks from the HP board that allegedly broke state law.

• Hurd’s power grows as HP scandal unfolds

  Hewlett-Packard’s boardroom scandal has turned into opportunity for CEO and president Mark Hurd who, with his appointment as board chairman, gained more power in his efforts to set HP’s strategic direction.

• HP CEO describes a "rogue" investigation

  Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd blamed the scandal that has besieged his company on "a rogue investigation" that got out of hand, in an advance copy of his Congressional testimony released by a House Subcommittee.