When Hewlett-Packard Co. announced the $2.7 billion purchase of 3Com Corp., it let the world know that H-P intends to compete fully with Cisco Systems Inc. in the corporate data center.
With its strength in Ethernet, 3Com gives HP a major piece of the pie, but it still needs a few more slices if it wants to be a one-stop-shop for data centers.
Cash-strapped consumers have been slow to buy personal computers in the recession. But with the launch of Microsoft Corp.’s new Windows 7 operating system Thursday, PC makers are aiming to reverse that trend–and then some.
Many big tech hardware makers are expanding into services. Hewlett-Packard last year bought Electronic Data Systems; Dell agreed last month to buy Perot Systems; and Xerox cut a deal for Affiliated Computer Services, also last month.
Google Inc., a champion of the belief that advertising should be less about art and more about science, is embracing its inner creative side.
As it searches for new growth, the company in recent months has focused more on creating custom ad campaigns spanning multiple Google services for big spenders including Hewlett-Packard Co. and Ford Motor Co.
And then there were five–defections from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over its climate-change policy, that is.
Apple today resigned its membership in the Chamber “effective immediately.” That’s a harsher tone than the other departures–three utilities said they’d let their membership lapse at the end of the year, and Nike simply quite the Chamber’s board of directors.
Indian technology-outsourcing companies no longer just want to serve their clients’ computing departments–they want to be them.
For years, India’s big tech firms positioned themselves as a cheap alternative to U.S. and European competitors for tasks such as software maintenance and database upgrades. They were content to take whatever work companies like Citigroup Inc. and BT Group PLC parceled out to offshore specialists.
Xerox Corp. and its new chief executive, Ursula Burns, unveiled the biggest acquisition in the company’s 103-year history, joining a wave of hardware makers expanding into services with a $5.6 billion deal for Affiliated Computer Services Inc.
Hewlett-Packard Co. Chief Executive Mark Hurd said his company was poised to grow faster than the overall technology market amid signs spending on several critical H-P products was beginning to pick up.
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is trying to figure out who sent five Hewlett-Packard laptop computers to West Virginia Governor Joe Mahchin a few weeks ago, with state officials worried that they may contain malicious software.
There were a flurry of stories over the weekend about the electoral dreams of former eBay CEO Meg Whitman and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina. Whitman is the current Republican front-runner in the race to be be the next governor of California.
Hewlett-Packard CFO Cathie Lesjak says the company does not expect the debut of Microsoft Windows 7 to trigger a major PC refresh cycle.
“We think it looks like a good product, one that folks will really like, but we don’t think it is different enough to drive a refresh cycle,” she said in an interview this afternoon with Tech Trader Daily following the company’s Q3 earnings report.
Worldwide PC shipments fell 5 percent in the second quarter from a year earlier, according to market research firm Gartner. That exceeded the company’s previous forecast of a 9.8 percent decline.
Gartner said the better-than-expected results reflect “a small sign of a PC market recovery in terms of shipment volumes in some regions.”
If you believe one Washington State software company, PC giant Dell is coming out with a netbook that uses Google’s operating system instead of Microsoft software.
As I noted earlier this month, the recent Cisco Systems decision to to move into the server business came with the risk that it might irritate both IBM and Hewlett-Packard, both of whom control big pieces of the server business while also reselling Cisco networking gear.
Hewlett-Packard on Friday announced that it will take a charge of 1-2 cents a share in its fiscal second quarter ending April related to a patent dispute with Cornell University and the Cornell Research Foundation. HP noted that on March 30 the U.S. District Court overseeing the case cut the amount of an early jury verdict in the case in favor of Cornell to $53 million from $184 million.
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