HP - News, Features, and Slideshows

News

• HP enters NZ point of sale market

  Hewlett-Packard is entering the retail point of sale (POS) market, teaming with newly launched distributor Sektor.

• Ex-EMC exec given go-ahead to work at HP

  Former EMC executive David Donatelli has been cleared by a Massachusetts court to work for Hewlett-Packard, but must keep away from storage technology development because a non-compete clause requires him to steer clear of that area for a year.

• Microsoft, HP expand unified comms push

  Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard have expanded their partnership to develop and sell a common platform for delivering voice, video and messaging services.

• HP claims Cisco 'alternative' mantle

  Emboldened by its extended partnership with Microsoft, HP ProCurve is positioning itself as the clear alternative to Cisco with renewed vigor.

• Court bars ex-EMC exec from working for HP

  A state court in Massachusetts has issued a temporary order barring a former EMC top storage executive from joining Hewlett-Packard as its executive vice president for enterprise servers, storage and networking, citing a non-competitive agreement.

• EMC-HP spat has precedent in Apple-IBM case

  The David Donatelli case is similar to that of Mark Papermaster, a former IBM executive who was blocked last year by a US court from working at Apple, after IBM filed a similar lawsuit to the one EMC filed against Donatelli.

• Microsoft could be a winner in Sun-Oracle deal

  Microsoft has had few critics more vocal than Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and Sun Chairman Scott McNealy. With their companies set to merge in a blockbuster US$7.4 billion deal announced Monday, is it time for Microsoft to worry?

• Cisco's UCS move has rivals taking stock

  As Cisco entered the blade server market with its hotly anticipated Unified Computing System last month, competitors lined up to dismiss the new technology, saying it raises the problem of vendor lock-in and is too limited in scope to address broad customer needs.

• CSIRO defeats HP in US court over Wi-Fi royalties

  Computer manufacturer Hewlett-Packard has effectively ended a four-year-old court case against Australian scientific agency the CSIRO, which claimed its wireless computer technology is worth billions of dollars in royalties.

• HP to distribute, support Solaris

  Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems -- fierce competitors when it comes to hardware sales -- have announced an expanded partnership that will see HP become a key distributor of Sun's Solaris 10 operating system.

• HP now biggest Intel customer

  Hewlett-Packard became the biggest customer worldwide for Intel last year, surpassing Dell.

• Hewlett-Packard NZ staff face pay cuts

  Hewlett-Packard and EDS staff in New Zealand are facing pay cuts and reductions in their benefits along with a redundancy programme announced last year.

• HP reports flat NZ income for Oct '08 year

  Hewlett-Packard New Zealand has reported a small decline in sales for the year ended October 2008, but a significant increase in its bottom line.

• HP urges LaserJet users to patch printers

  Hewlett-Packard has warned owners of some of its laser printers to update their devices' firmware or risk having remote attackers access previously-printed documents.

• Netbooks won't save PC market this year, surveys say

  Netbook shipments will see tremendous growth this year but won't be enough to boost overall worldwide PC shipments, which will sink due to the global economic downturn, according to surveys from IDC and Gartner released on Wednesday.