Hewlett Packard News

HP announced new mobile and cloud-based printing solutions for its HP Designjet systems, including an HP ePrint & Share application for Android.

Take a good long look at the laptop or desktop computer you currently use. By the time it needs replacing, the company that made it could be either radically transformed or out of the business altogether.

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This March 1 photo shows a woman using her iPhone in Washington. The personal computer has dominated modern life for 25 years, but the often bulky devices are increasingly giving way to smaller, lighter smartphones and tablet computers.

Everyone wants to have a laptop nowadays. They are more portable and more compact than desktop computers, the reason why they are easy to use and carry around.

A hack in July last year of a computer used by third-party services provider Serco to support the Thrift Savings Plan run by the U.S. Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board resulted in unauthorized access to the personal information of about 123,201 TSP participants and payees, FRTIB said Friday.

It seems that now is not a good time to be an employee of Hewlett- Packard , as the company may soon announce plans to cut 30,000 jobs across the company.

The first woman to lead one of the nation's 20 biggest companies was in Utah earlier this week.

Calcutta, May 27: Sales of desktops and mobile PCs have grown 6.6 per cent to 2.8 million units in the first quarter of 2012 .

Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) 'Hewlett-Packard to lay off 27,000 employees," said the headline, prompting a grimace from this columnist.

Meg Whitman has just announced that she's going to shrink the workforce at Hewlett-Packard . She says the organisation has reached a size where it is sinking under its own weight and thus simply cannot continue at the same size.

Finding a cheap laptop for college is an easy task. Laptop prices have fallen steadily over the last couple of years as marketplace competition heats up and production costs come down.

With the fast disappearing gap between desktop computers and laptops or notebook computers in terms of computing power, more people are aiming to purchase a laptop or notebook computer to replace the less portable desktop computer.

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A reader describes quirks in his experience with wireless technology. Eventually, he solved the problems, but dealing with wireless can be baffling.

Blinkx , the video search engine spun off from Autonomy in 2007, slumped 14.5 per cent this week on news that Autonomy founder Mike Lynch had left Hewlett-Packard . The departure sparked speculation that HP may sell its 12.6 per cent stake in Blinkx, which the US group inherited as part of its $10.2bn acquisition of Autonomy last year.

On ThursdayA more details regarding Hewlett Packard's [HP] planned layoff of nearly 30,000 American workers - including thousands of engineers -A were unveilved,A including plans to retain the company's Chinese unit and to 'pressure its A remaining workers to "work harder"'.A This comes just days after members of Congress began hitting the airwaves ... (more)

Here, models from digital designs off a computer are created on a machine that resembles an inkjet printer.

The unreleased tablet reportedly has a 10.1-inch display with 1366-by-768 resolution, an Intel Clover Trail Atom dual-core processor, 2 GB of RAM, up to 128 GB of solid state storage, a 2-megapixel camera in front and an 8-megapixel camera in back, according to Neowin.

The Verge reported yesterday that Google would soon be assimilating the Hewlett-Packard team responsible for creating Enyo, the HTLM5-based application framework for WebOS that debuted on the failed TouchPad.