IDG News Service - Hewlett-Packard on Wednesday announced a US$8.9 billion loss for its third quarter ended July 31 due to writedowns and weak hardware sales and also said full-year results would be at the low end of its previous guidance. ...
Tags: HP, weak sales, revenue, Personal Systems Group
Google yesterday said it will pay up to$2 million for major vulnerabilities in its Chrome browser at a second Pwnium hacking contest this fall. Pwn2Own,a rival contest sponsored by Hewlett-Packard,will award as much as$200,000 in a ...
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IDG News Service - Hewlett-Packard is readying three new software capabilities that are designed to help enterprises pool their computing and storage resources across a network. The advances should make it easier for IT departments to ...
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Indian outsourcer Infosys Tuesday unveiled a package of services and technologies that aim to help companies deploying hybrid clouds. Fragmentation of enterprise workloads across technologies and services running on both private clouds ...
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IDG News Service-Following a four-month beta period,Rackspace has started offering its hosted servers and databases using the open source OpenStack suite of cloud software. That OpenStack has been pressed into production use just two ...
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Apple and Samsung Electronics hurled strong statements at each other in the opening rounds of their Silicon Valley patent trial on Tuesday,kicking off a case that could result in billions of dollars in damages. In a packed federal ...
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Facebook has taken delivery of the first set of innovative server racks it helped design, technology that the company hopes other organizations with large data centers will adopt. The prototype racks represent some of the ...
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Upgrading to Windows 7 is having little effect on IT departments' PC purchasing decisions Businesses are actively moving off Windows XP, as support for the legacy operating system (OS) is due to end in 2014. But, according to researcher ...
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Since Hewlett-Packard acquired LeftHand Networks in 2008,it has continued to develop LeftHand's complete line of software-based iSCSI storage under the HP LeftHand P4000-series moniker.Based on the feature-rich SAN/iQ 9.5 software ...
Tags: HP, P4000 G2 series, LeftHand Networks, virtualized version
Cyara Solutions--a pioneer of next-generation premise and cloud solutions for testing,monitoring and simulation of interactive voice response(IVRs)and contact center systems and applications--today announced the hiring of Laurence Webb,a ...
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Philips Electronics Korea,a subsidiary under Royal Philips Electronics,has announced to appoint Kim Il-gon as the new chief of its lighting branch.He is set to take office on Sept.1. The Korean subsidiary expressed confidence in its ...
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Intel isn't actively porting Android to work on tablets based on the upcoming Atom chip code-named Clover Trail,which is purpose built for Microsoft's Windows 8,according to a source familiar with the company's plans. Initial tablets ...
Tags: Intel, Clover Trail chip, Microsoft's Windows 8, smartphones
Lucibel and Barefoot Power have closed additional rounds of financing,Next Lighting has hired Steve Paolini as CTO,Orb Optronix is to supply KOPTI with LM-80 test equipment,and Gamma Scientific is now able to perform third-party Energy ...
Tags: LED, Orb Optronix, Gamma, Next Lighting, Lucibel, Barefoot Power
California's top legal official has put the tech industry on notice that she intends to get tough on digital privacy. Attorney General Kamala Harris said Thursday she is forming a new group within the state's Justice Department, the ...
Tags: online privacy, US, Cybercrime, Hacking
Dell has laid out a plan to dramatically grow its software business by targeting mid-sized companies that it says are under-served by rivals such as IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Oracle. Its plan is to target four key areas: security, ...
Tags: Dell, software business, security, computer solutions