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HP: Web-Enabled Printers to Get Palm webOS
Hewlett-Packard has plans for Palm’s webOS mobile operating system that go well beyond smartphones and tablet PCs, such as Web-connected printers. During a conference call with analysts and reporters to announce fiscal second-quarter 2010 results May 18, HP President and CEO Mark Hurd said that while he certainly wants to grow Palm’s smartphone business, the…
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IBM Says No Competitive Threat from Dell, HP, Xerox Gobbling Up IT Services Firms
(Reuters) – IBM (NYSE:IBM) feels no threat from a series of acquisitions by competitors and has no plans for a major strategy change even as it spends more on mergers and acquisitions, a senior company executive said on Friday. Asked about acquisitions like Hewlett-Packard Co’s (NYSE:HPQ) $13.2 billion purchase of EDS, Adam Klaber, general manager…
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Palm Drew Many Suitors Beyond HP
New details have emerged regarding Hewlett-Packard’s $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm. While the smartphone maker may have been financially struggling, it was hardly an unnoticed wallflower before HP came along, according to a proxy statement Palm filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The statement reads a bit like a novella, detailing the advancements,…
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HP to Pay Incentives to SAP Customers That Migrate from Sun to HP
Hewlett-Packard is offering Oracle SunSet Program incentives for partners who move customers off Oracle Sun SPARC servers for their SAP implementations to an HP infrastructure instead. HP made the announcement at the SAP Sapphire conference in Orlando, Fla., this week in the form of the HP Migration in a Box. The offering provides a comprehensive…
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HP Targets Lower OpEx for IT with New Systems, Services
Hewlett-Packard officials say they want to help enterprises shift more of their IT spending away from operations and toward innovation. HP is rolling out a number of products and services designed to enable businesses to reduce the operating costs in their data centers – through best practices and technology – so that more money is…
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Tech Giants in Acquisition Frenzy
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Technology firms are kicking off a new wave of mergers and acquisitions as cash-rich makers of hardware, software and everything in between position themselves for economic recovery and reach into new markets. The movement toward mobile computing, the increasing importance of data storage, and the use of the Internet to access…