HP enables photo printing on the iPhone
Hewlett-Packard on Monday launched an application that allows users to print pictures wirelessly from an iPhone.
Hewlett-Packard on Monday launched an application that allows users to print pictures wirelessly from an iPhone.
It is that time of year again, but before we head off to beaches and baches for the holidays, I thought this would be the perfect time to sum up the past 12 months here at Toybox headquarters, and at the same time give you some Christmas gift inspiration. Below is my top-five list of toys and gadgets that have passed through since January.
HP tops the local PC market rankings. It took each of the three ‘Top vendor’ positions in IDC New Zealand’s PC Market Summary for the third quarter of 2008, with number one positions in Desktop, Portable and X86 Server. Acer placed prominently, taking third position in the Desktop and Portable categories, and fourth in the X86 Server category.
Bill Kosik knows a thing or two about building efficient datacentres. As managing principal of consultancy EYP Mission Critical Facilities in Chicago, Kosik helped Hewlett Packard plan its global project to consolidate 85 datacenters into just six.
Hewlett-Packard saw a sharp increase in fourth quarter revenue and expects a profitable fiscal 2009 despite a gloomy global economic scene.
The New Zealand Stock Exchange has delayed the rollout of a new Linux-based settlement and clearance system to allow stockbrokers more time to bring their technology up to date.
EDS has appointed David Caspari as its new head of operations in Australia and New Zealand. Caspari will assume the title of vice president, EDS ANZ, overseeing infrastructure services, business process outsourcing and applications solutions.
HP is updating its SOA governance software, HP Systinet 3.00, which assists with discovering and reusing services in composite applications and business processes.
Hewlett-Packard will buy LeftHand Networks for US$360 million (NZ4535 million) to fill in its storage virtualisation and iSCSI lines with products for medium-size companies and remote offices and branches.
Oracle's annual OpenWorld show is usually a showcase for its enterprise software. This year, however, it was all about hardware, as CEO Larry Ellison introduced a new family of database/storage products that it had been working on with partner Hewlett-Packard for three years.
Up to 250 Kiwi employees of the combined HP-EDS could face the axe if Hewlett-Packard’s plans to lay off up to 24,600 employees globally over the next three years is mirrored in New Zealand.
Hewlett-Packard will lay off about 24,600 employees over the next three years in an effort to streamline the company following its US$13.9 billion acquisition of Electronic Data Systems last month, the company announced Monday.
Hewlett-Packard has announced a broad sweep of new virtualisation products along with survey results claiming that most businesses aren't making the most of what the technology has to offer.
Weta Digital, the studio that produced the Lord of the Rings series and King Kong, has completed its new extreme density data centre.
Hewlett-Packard's revenue and profit grew in its fiscal third quarter, largely on the strength of sales outside the Americas, with laptop and blade-server sales among the high points.