How might cloud computing affect the average user? Russ Daniels, CTO, of HP’s Cloud Services Strategy says that since most of the computing work is not done on a user’s machine but out in the cloud, you can worry less about the limitations of that one particular machine, making it easier to provide a consistent user experience, even if your PC is a littler older. View Presentation
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HP has announced yesterday plans to layoff 24,600 employees over three years as part of its acquisition of EDS. The workforce reduction represents approximately 7.5 percent of the combined company’s workforce with nearly half of the layoffs occurring in the U.S. The company anticipates an annual cost savings of approximately $1.8 billion as a result of the restructuring program.
“HP now has the broadest technology capabilities in the market to meet customer needs today and in the future,” said Mark Hurd, HP chairman and chief executive officer. “HP has a strong track record of making More»

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Microsoft has entered into a significant new deal with HP to have the Microsoft Search Bar distributed as the default on all new HP consumer computers, starting in 2009. Here’s the official press release from Microsoft.
The searchbar stakes are potentially very, very high. Most users don’t mess with default settings, which means that the default search will be used for a *lot* of searching at Microsoft Live. Microsoft’s overwhelming share of the browser market appeared to give them the advantage in this space early on. However Google’s search results superiority combined with legal actions against what was a virtually More»

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Hewlett Packard and EDS are expected to announce a deal soon where HP will aquire the data services company for about 13 Billion. This deal will make Hewlett Packard the number two global provider of enterprise technology services (IBM is number one). HP, however, is already the world’s largest manufacturer of computers with no competition from IBM in that department because IBM sold their entire computer manufacturing business to China’s Lenovo some time ago.
The move is likely to allow HP to consolidate several management functions as well as enlarge their services footprint considerably. This More»

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