Demand for HP's Mini-Note growing fast? (2)
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Filed under: LaptopsHP has always been confident that the 2133 Mini-Note would sell quickly, to the point where the company planned to build some two million units this year, and it sounds like that bet's paying off -- China's Apply Daily is citing sources at HP Taiwan quoting worldwide sales growing 50 percent monthly. That's pretty good for one of the more expensive small laptops on the market -- we'll see if that rumored cheaper ...
I.B.M. Ups Its Bet on Business Recovery Services (1)
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I.B.M. is spending $300 million to build 13 data centers around the world, dedicated to helping corporate customers keep their businesses up and running despite power outages, natural disasters or political turmoil.
Bits: Gartner Tech Forecast: Cloudy and Getting Cloudier (3)
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In its latest report on information technology spending, Gartner projects a massive switch by companies to cloud computing.
Four Reasons Our Printers Are Getting Dusty (3)
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Consumer printer sales are flat. Are home printers just not as necessary any more?
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bhc3 said:
#3.Rather than print out an article to read later, we hit “Read Later” or Read It Later, ShifD or Google Notebook and read the article on any computer anywhere.
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rob said:
someday we won't have to create printer-friendly views either
HP to Acquire Colubris of Waltham (1)
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deals, wireless, Colubris Networks Ryan McBride wrote: Colubris Networks, a privately held provider of wireless networks for large businesses in Waltham, MA, has agreed to be sold to IT powerhouse Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ), based in Palo Alto, CA. The deal, the terms of which weren’t revealed, is slated to close by October 31, 2008. Permalink | Share | E-mail
More about Howard County Library’s customer computers (2)
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Howard County Library customers use our computers often. Many customers arrive first thing in the morning and spend a full day with us. We are delighted to see our customers and enjoy being a part of their daily or weekly routine. Each customer computer is identical. Each is a Dell GX 150 and each has a 19" Hewlett Packard monitor. All have Ubuntu as their operating system and provide access to: internet: Firefox ; word ...
Figuring out which NVIDIA GPUs are defective -- it's a lot (8)
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Filed under: LaptopsSo now that HP's joined Dell in releasing information on which laptops have those defective NVIDIA GPUs, we can sort of piece together which chips are faulty -- and just as had been rumored, it looks like basically every Geforce 8600M and 8400M chip is affected. That's not good news for NVIDIA, which has been saying that only "previous-generation" chips were problematic -- unless the chipmaker is planning on updating the hugely popular ...
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Make sure to find out if you have one that's in the list.
Intel, HP, and Yahoo to build joint cloud-computing research labs (1)
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Filed under: Misc. GadgetsSure, it's all well and cute to think of "cloud computing" as being a magical data-fairy, but storing and processing all your fancy new CalDAV-enabled Google Calendar entries and MobileMe emails costs money, kid -- and that means it's hard for researchers to accurately simulate and build cloud research projects, since they don't have the resources to build large enough data centers. HP, Intel, and Yahoo are teaming up to alleviate that ...
Intel, HP, and Yahoo to build joint cloud-computing research labs (5)
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Filed under: Misc. GadgetsSure, it's all well and cute to think of "cloud computing" as being a magical data-fairy, but storing and processing all your fancy new CalDAV-enabled Google Calendar entries and MobileMe emails costs money, kid -- and that means it's hard for researchers to accurately simulate and build cloud research projects, since they don't have the resources to build large enough data centers. HP, Intel, and Yahoo are teaming up to alleviate that ...
Cloud Computing Test Bed: Live Notes From The Conference Call (18)
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Hewlett Packard, Intel and Yahoo announced the Cloud Computing Test Bed this morning. Executives from the three companies are holding a 9 am PST conference call to discuss the new venture. Participating are Prith Banerjee, Senior Vice President, Research, HP and Director, HP Labs; Prabhakar Raghavan, Head of Yahoo! Research; and Andrew Chien, Vice President, Corporate Technology Group, Intel and Director, Intel Research. The product is a distributed computing platform for third party research and ...
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kidakaka said:
Awesome. Providing web devs an application service deployment platform for easier and faster rollouts. This is the infrastructure that we need.
HP, Yahoo, Intel Launch Cloud Computing Test Bed (36)
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The mystery announcemnet we mentioned yesterday was just released - Yahoo, Hewlett Packard and Intel are jointly announcing a new cloud computing research initiative called the Cloud Computing Test Bed. Users will be able to build and launch new applications on the platform. It’s being described as “a globally distributed, Internet-scale testing environment designed to encourage research on the software, data center management and hardware issues associated with cloud computing at a larger scale than ...
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HP: Hardware.Intel : CPU.Yahoo! : Apache Hadool and its Pig? Most important, its users and network traffic, for test/lab purpose.HP's EaaS : Everything as a Service.
HP merging Voodoo with consumer PC unit (3)
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Filed under: Desktops, LaptopsJust weeks after "reinventing" Voodoo with the Envy 133 laptop and Omen gaming desktop, it looks like HP's had enough -- it's decided to straight-up merge the specialty PC shop with its core consumer business, and sell its products alongside the Compaq Presario and HP Pavilion lines. Yeah, that'll make Voodoo seem totally hardcore. For it's part, HP says it's always been planning on this kind of merger, and that the move ...
Blogger gets Vista refund with only 4 emails, 3 phone calls, 2 months [Great Moments In Customer Service] (2)
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In theory, Microsoft's license agreement for Vista says you can get a refund from your PC's manufacturer if you buy a model with Vista preinstalled, but replace it with Windows XP, Linux or another operating system. In practice, Equlibriate blogger Kim Kido, a k a uncle_benji, spent two months calling and emailing HP before the company finally cut her a $200 check. She's posted a detailed recap of the story, including screenshots of customer service ...
Man gets Vista refund with only 4 emails, 3 phone calls, 2 months [Great Moments In Customer Service] (2)
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In theory, Microsoft's license agreement for Vista says you can get a refund from your PC's manufacturer if you buy a model with Vista preinstalled, but replace it with Windows XP, Linux or another operating system. In practice, Equlibriate blogger uncle_benji spent two months calling and emailing HP before the company finally cut him a $200 check. He's posted a detailed recap of the story, including screenshots of customer service emails and a photo of ...
Hewlett-Packard Crowned Head Of The Stupid Shipping Gang After Packing 32 Sheets Of Paper In 17 Boxes [Stupid Shipping Gang] (1)
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Leading the stupid shipping gang takes creative incompetence, and Hewlett-Packard is clearly up to the task. Other companies might have turned to email when faced with the challenge of shipping sixteen software licenses. Not Hewlett-Packard! HP went looking for a box. A really big box, which they filled with sixteen smaller boxes, each containing two precious pieces of paper ensconced in a layer of protective foam. Hewlett-Packard's head of product packaging was unable to explain ...
How to sell your company's secrets and not get caught [Tim The IT Guy] (3)
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This week, the HP vice president indicted for leaking trade secrets from IBM, his former employeer, pleaded guilty. Dude, UR DOIN IT RONG. Atul Malhotra allegedly emailed the goods to a coworker, drawing a big red arrow back to his own forehead. Ready to cash in on your inside info? Follow this six-step plan. 1. Be sure the secret is worth something. You don't want to risk your neck over info the company is already ...
HP Blackbird 002 Exhilaration Edition gets unboxed (3)
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Filed under: Desktops Apparently some folks have $6,600 to toss on a gaming PC, and thankfully, those folks -- we won't mention names -- invested in a camera to let us all live vicariously. HP's Blackbird 002 Exhilaration Edition, which packs a pair of NVIDIA's potent GeForce GTX 280 cards, has landed in the home of one lucky gamer, and there's a good selection of pictures to prove it. You know where to head from ...
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I want one...mostly I just want the case.
HP начала поставки ЦОД в контейнере для быстрого развертывания (1)
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Компания HP объявила о выпуске центра обработки данных для мобильного развертывания. Решение HP Performance Optimized Data Center (HP POD), поставляемое в 12,2-метровом контейнере, включает 3500 компьютерных узлов, 12 тыс. крупноформатных жестких дисков, сетевые системы и подсистему питания.читать дальше