Tuesday, June 01, 2010
HP to cut 9,000 jobs, automate service business The company will take a US$1B accounting charge to cover the cost of restructuring as it automates the services it offers enterprise customers. No word on the impact on Canadian operations
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
PC makers leak Intel's future quad-core laptop chips HP and Dell leaked information about Intel's first quad-core laptop chips made using the 32-nm process. Find out more
Friday, May 21, 2010
HP wants Palm OS for Web-connected printers HP is buying Palm because it wants the company's operating system to use in Web-connected printers, Chairman and CEO Mark Hurd said on Tuesday. Microsoft is an important partner, he says, but for some devices HP wants its own OS
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
HP’s new products, services free up IT dollars Thirty per cent of the IT budget is spent on IT infrastructure daily maintenance. But HP said new Generation 7 ProLiant servers with iLO 3, and management tools for virtual and cloud environments, should help shift IT spend to innovative projects
Monday, May 10, 2010
Blogging Idol: It's a wrap Our third annual blogging competition comes to a close, but that doesn't mean the platform will disappear
Tuesday, May 04, 2010
In Conversation: Palm buy, Yahoo's transparency VIDEO: Rafael Ruffolo and Dave Webb debate the upside and downside of HP's purchase of Palm; Brian Jackson talks with Yahoo privacy chief Anne Toth
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
UPDATE: HP to buy struggling Palm for US$1.2 billion The deal, which received a vote of confidence from both companies, comes after rumors of a number of potential suitors for the handset maker
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
HP announces converged infrastructure solution The company hopes to breathe new life into its high-end Itanium servers by using a more standard blade design. Find out more about the important HP launch
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
HP to predict how IT shops use print devices The company bolstered its Managed Print Services portfolio on Wednesday adding a service that uses analytics to predict printing and copying device usage. HP also gave BlackBerry smart phone users a new way to print from the road
Monday, April 19, 2010
HP touts major advance in 'memristors' The company is developing technology which could eventually handle both memory and logic in the same chip, at the same time. At least one industry analyst is calling the memristor a "major game-changer"
Wednesday, April 07, 2010
In Conversation: Leadership at HP, riskiest cybercities VIDEO: IT World Canada staff discuss HP Canada's new CEO, Symantec's list of the 50 riskiest Canadian cities for cybercrime, and Phase 2 of Ontario's electronics recycling program
Wednesday, April 07, 2010
HP takes on Apple's iPad with Slate tablet The company might expect its Slate device to ride the wave of hype surrounding the Apple iPad. But some analysts are arguing that the device is far from an iPad killer
Thursday, April 01, 2010
HP to keep investing in hot print services market With a formidable rival in Xerox and new competition on the way from Dell, senior HP executive Bruce Dahlgren promised significant investments to its new managed print services unit. The company also did not rule out future acquisitions to support the printing services group
Friday, March 26, 2010
SLIDE SHOW: Five alternatives to the iPad A round-up of tablet-style devices on Windows 7 and Android that will be competing for Apple's market this year
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Tsaparis moves up, Galanis moves in at HP Canada Long-time HP Canada chief Paul Tsaparis moves to the U.S. organization, while Chicago-based Paul Galanis takes the helm in Mississauga. IDC's Sebastien Ruest reflects on the differing management style of the "tour-of-duty" CEO
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Vendors ally with Microsoft at Voicecon At Voicecon's opening Monday in Orlando, vendors are poised to push unified communications and Microsoft is stepping into the spotlight by announcing alliances with other vendors whose gear interoperates with Microsoft Office Communications Server. Find out the specifics
Monday, March 22, 2010
Blade shoot-out: Three servers with new Intel CPU InfoWorld compared the performance of a trio of blade servers with the six-core Intel Westmere processor, plus a budget-priced four-core server, to see how they compare. The results might suprise you
Friday, March 19, 2010
HP, IBM, Dell launch servers with new Intel chips The rack, blade and tower servers use Intel's Xeon 5600 quad-core and six-core processors. Industry analysts say the new CPUs will help organizations in their shift to virtualized workloads
Thursday, March 04, 2010
IBM splits memory and processor on eX5 servers Big Blue says its new line of x86 servers eliminate the memory bottleneck with expandability up to 1.5TB. Analysts discuss the value of purpose-built architecture in a virtual environment
Monday, March 01, 2010
HP cautious about touch in business laptops The company launches its first business laptop with a touchscreen, but is holding back bringing touchscreens to other business laptops. Find out why HP thinks corporate demand might be limited
Friday, February 19, 2010
Cisco to drop HP as certified reseller As of May 1, Hewlett-Packard will no longer be a certified reseller of Cisco Systems Inc.’s networking equipment, meaning HP will no longer get proprietary Cisco data. HP is expanding its switch and router offerings with the acquisition of 3Com Corp. and will also resell QLogic Corp.’s fibre channel switches. Read the reaction from Info-Tech’s James Alexander and IDC Canada’s Paul Edwards
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Brace yourself for super admins, HP Canada says As server, storage, and networking infrastructure continue to be more integrated, the need for one overarching admin will be popping up in more data centres across the country, according to an executive with HP Canada
Thursday, February 11, 2010
HP updates Agile Accelerator Hewlett-Packard has added new functionality to its software development and testing tool including resource planning so developers can gauge and allocate resources. A recent Forrester study on agile usage shows an uptake. How Genworth Financial is applying agile
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
Intel ships next-generation Itanium chip The long-delayed 64-bit processors are on their way, the company said in a blog, although an official announcement is expected shortly. However, an industry analyst it's better that a manufacturer gets a heavy-duty CPU right than put it out too early 
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Security portfolio tackles complexity with integration Hewlett-Packard says its new security services portfolio will give customers better integration across HP and partner offerings, reducing complexity. But an Info-Tech Research analyst thinks the cloud offerings reflect capabilities that are perhaps not “fully baked”