Acer overtakes Dell to become second largest PC maker in the world!
Things are looking bad for Dell which has now lost the second spot to Acer in the PC manufacturing market.
Hewlett Packard continues to lead the charts.
As per the latest data released by IDC, here are the market share of these companies:
HP [...]
Marc Andreessen is now a Hewlett Packard board member
HP has announced the appointment of Marc Andreessen to their board.
HP’s chairman and CEO Mark Hurd said in a statement that Andreessen is a “software pioneer whose leadership has helped shape the Internet. Marc’s entrepreneurial background and industry expertise will be a welcome addition to the HP [...]
Hewlett-Packard acquires IBRIX
US based tech giant HP has announced their decision to acquire IBRIX.
HP said that this acquisition would help them boost their enterprise storage offerings.
IBRIX specializes in offering enterprise-class file-serving software solutions like data protection and data management services.
HP said: “Customers need highly scalable storage solutions that efficiently and cost-effectively manage [...]
After HP, Acer might overtake Dell globally
Dell continues to struggle in the global personal computer market.
Hewlett Packard is already ahead of them and now Acer might catch up to become the second largest PC maker in the world.
Acer is gaining a lot of market share from the sales of their cheap netbook products [...]
Hewlett-Packard profit down 17%
Hewlett-Packard has come out with their latest revenue report and the company’s profit figures have come down 17%.
The company said that the sales of personal computers and printer ink were slow in the recent quarter.
HP’s chief financial officer, Cathie Lesjak admitted that it is too early to call if the [...]
IBM and Sun said to have stopped their discussions
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IBM has been in talks with Sun Microsystems for weeks as per market reports.
The two companies have been discussing a potential acquisition deal.
The latest report [...]
Apple, Dell, HP sued by The PACid Group
The PACid Group has filed a lawsuit against 19 companies including Apple, Atheros, Broadcom, Dell, Edimax, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Lenovo, Marvell, Realtek, and Toshiba.
The lawsuit claims that these companies infringe upon their patented technologies.
The patent involved in this lawsuit is U.S. patent No. 5,963,646, “Secure deterministic [...]
HP Software University established
Hewlett Packard is collaborating with Indian Institute of Hardware Technology to launch the HP Software University.
HP said that this project is the first of its kind programme in the non-enterprise training space.
The aim is to train people in software testing to meet the growing demand for such professionals in [...]
Telstra said to have terminated contract with Satyam
Australian telecom services provider Telstra is said to have terminated their outsourcing contract with Satyam.
The contract is said to be worth around $32 million per year.
Market reports say that the contract has now gone to EDS which is part of the US based giant Hewlett Packard.
Satyam [...]
HP cuts pay to avoid job cuts
US based tech giant Hewlett Packard has apparently applied a pay cut across the company.
This step was taken to avoid potential job cuts as the company too is feeling the pinch of the weakening economy.
Inside sources say that the company CEO Mark Hurd said in an internal memo that [...]
