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Hewlett-Packard
hideHewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HPQ), commonly referred to as HP, is a technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, United States. HP has its United States offices at the former old Compaq Campus in unincorporated Harris County, Texas, Latin America offices in Miami-Dade County, Florida, U.S., Europe offices in Geneva, and Asia-Pacific offices in Singapore. HP is the largest technology company in the world and operates in nearly every country. HP specializes in developing and manufacturing computing, storage, and networking hardware, software and services. Major product lines include personal computing devices, enterprise servers, related storage devices, as well as a diverse range of printers and other imaging products. Other product lines, including electronic test equipment and systems, medical electronic equipment, solid state components and instrumentation for chemical analysis were spun off as Agilent Technologies in 1999.
HP markets its products to households, small to medium size businesses and enterprises both directly, via online distribution, consumer-electronics and office-supply retailers, software partners and major technology vendors.
HP posted US $91.7 billion in annual revenue in 2006 compared to US$91.4 billion for IBM, making it the world's largest technology vendor in terms of sales. In 2007 the revenue was $104 billion, making HP the first IT company in history to report revenues exceeding $100 billion. HP acquired EDS in 2008 to fill the gap in its technology services portfolio. With HP-EDS combined revenues of US$ 118.4 Billion in 2008 and a Fortune 500 ranking of 9 in 2009, HP retained its worlds largest technology company postion.
HP is the largest worldwide seller of personal computers, surpassing rival Dell, according to market research firms Gartner and IDC reported in January 2008; the gap between HP and Dell widened substantially at the end of 2007, with HP taking a near 3.9% market share lead. HP is also the 5th largest software company in the world. In 2008 HP retained its global leadership position in inkjet, laser, large format and multifuction printers market. Also HP become #2 globally in IT services as reported by IDC & Gartner. It is one of the only American PC-focused computer companies publicly traded under the NYSE.
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HP today announced an unprecedented milestone in mobile computing: up to 24 hours of continuous notebook operation on a single battery charge.
HP Labs award will lay groundwork for next generation computers
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While most personal computers today can process a few hundred thousand calculations per second, computer scientists are laying the groundwork for exascale machines that will process more than a million trillion ...
HP Introduces First Professional Workstation with Six-core AMD Opteron Processor
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HP today announced the integration of the highly anticipated Six-Core AMD Opteron 2400 Series processor into its family workstations.
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Aucott et al. report the first in vivo experiments on the heterochromatin protein 1 (HP1) family, which sidles up to silent DNA. The results, to be published in the Nov. 17 issue of the Journal of Cell Biology, add to the ...
HP Launches Virtualization Technologies That Cut Networking Costs by 55 Percent
Nov 17, 2008 |
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HP today announced breakthrough networking, storage and server technologies that reduce costs, increase bandwidth flexibility and improve overall performance of virtual server environments.
HP, Taiwan's Foxconn to build China plant: report
Aug 05, 2009 |
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US computer giant Hewlett-Packard Co. and Taiwan's Foxconn Group will jointly build a plant in China to make laptops and related equipment, a report said Wednesday.
HP recalls laptop batteries over fire hazard
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Hewlett-Packard (HP) is recalling some 70,000 batteries for notebook computers because of a fire hazard, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) said on Thursday.
HP Reveals Their Ipaq Data Manager & Voice Messenger Smartphones
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Oct 21, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- HP's mysterious new smartphone entrants have just been revealed. The HP Voice Messenger will sell for €399 ($532) on November 5th and the Data Messenger will be selling for €499 ($665) on ...
Netbooks now being sold like cell phones
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Jul 08, 2009 |
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If you walked into the right RadioShack store last weekend, you could get an Acer Aspire "netbook" computer for free. The catch: You would have to sign a two-year contract for mobile Internet service from AT&T, at $60 a month ...
HP, RIM form Blackberry alliance
May 04, 2009 |
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US computer giant Hewlett-Packard and Canada's Research In Motion (RIM) announced an alliance on Monday to provide applications and services for the popular Blackberry smartphone.
HP Labs says reorg paying off with new money-making technology
Mar 18, 2009 |
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If Hewlett-Packard hadn't reorganized its research efforts a little more than a year ago, according to Prith Banerjee, director of the world-renowned HP Labs, people on the business side of the company might be asking some ...
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It was a harmonic convergence of scheduling that found me spending six solid hours with some of Silicon Valley's brightest minds. Without giving it much thought, I committed recently to a morning of meetings at Hewlett-Packard's ...
HP Introduces ProBook 5310m and Pavilion dm3 Notebooks
Sep 15, 2009 |
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HP today introduced the world's thinnest full-performance notebook PC as well as a slim, stylish consumer notebook that delivers an optimal balance of mobility, performance and affordability.
HP Compaq Mini 700 Netbook Launched in Europe
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Dec 23, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- HP has launched their 10.2 inch netbook in Europe yesterday. The Compaq Mini incorporates a 1.6 GHz processor using an Intel Atom CPU along with an GMA950 graphics processor, with 1 GB of ...
HP Enables New Field of Flexible Electronics with Reflective Display Technology
Jun 01, 2009 |
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HP today announced the launch of a new display technology for the personalization of consumer electronics products.
