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Hewlett-Packard has settled an ongoing patent dispute with three different vendors of printer ink cartridges. The agreement calls for these other vendors to stop selling certain types of printer ink and some vendors must pay HP. HP is still expecting to settle one case, but seven other patent disputes remain. ...

Wireless technology is freeing up offices in many ways, including in the world of printing. On top of advanced wireless capabilities, many quality brands, including Lexmark, Hewlett-Packard and Canon, are offering eco-friendly printers and all-in-one capabilities such as scanning, faxing and even photo printing. Here's a selection of wireless printers ...

Hewlett-Packard, Nokia, Samsung, Apple and other OEMs will spend 13 percent more on microprocessors in 2010 than in the previous year, predicts a report from iSuppli. These numbers seem to show that semiconductor prices have stabilized, while demand for consumer and businesses electronics has increased. - Hewlett-Packard, Apple, ...

On Tuesday IBM, HP, and Dell unveiled servers that are based on new Xeon 5600 microprocessors developed by Intel. It is expected that users will be enabled with better performance as well as power consumption. The companies are offering new rack, blade and tower servers that integrate Intel’s Xeon 5600 quad-core ...

Intel is launching its new six-core “Westmere EP” Xeon processors, and system makers such as IBM, HP, Dell, SGI, Cray and Super Micro are rolling out new and enhanced systems powered by the new chips. The Westmere EP launch comes as Intel prepares to release an eight-core Xeon and AMD ...

To celebrate Intel's newest addition to their solid-state drive (SSD) family, Intel is giving away two HP Mini Netbooks featuring an Intel SSD. Intel SSDs boost system performance and speed start up and opening of applications. Enter the SSD ...

Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina is finding little support from her old company in her bid to unseat Sen. Barbara Boxer. A week after an HP heir accused Fiorina of almost destroying the company, HPs PAC gave $10,000 to Boxers campaign. That was after Arianna Packard gave $4,200 to Fiorina ...

Apple made its iPad available for preorder March 12, effectively kicking off the long-brewing battle between various manufacturers over the newborn segment for mass-consumer tablet PCs. HP has already been firing broadsides at the iPad for its lack of Adobe Flash support, and competitors in the space have all indicated ...

Few manufacturers are more prolific these days than MSI Computer, which since the ringing in of 2010 has introduced 24 new mobile PCs, including notebooks and netbooks. The relatively little-known MSI describes itself as being based in the City of Industry, California, but Endpoint Technologies analyst Roger Kay clarifies that ...

News Analysis: HP's Slate is back in the news after the PC vendor released videos detailing why it believes the Slate can beat the Apple iPad. HP is making a strong argument with the Slate's design and features that it will give the iPad a good run for its money ...

Hewlett-Packard's upcoming slate PC boasts one clear advantage over Apple's iPad by supporting Adobe Flash, an HP executive suggests in a corporate blog posting. Apple is shunning Flash, which Apple CEO Steve Jobs suggested is buggy, for its upcoming device. The HP device will also be based off Windows 7. ...

Hewlett-Packard on March 1 introduced its new ProBook S-series (for Standard) of notebook computers, aimed at the price-conscious midrange and SMB markets. The new machines, which come in display size choices of 12.1-inch, 13.3-inch, 14-inch, 15.6-inch and 17.3-inch, are all powered by Intel dual core processors and are preinstalled with ...

Overall, the chief characteristics of each of the launches are what one might expect: added power and storage; stronger, lighter bodies [thanks to new aluminum casings]; improved, near-high-definition graphics, and some useful new software options. - Hewlett-Packard has been busier than usual rolling out laptops and notebooks ...

A good and efficient tech support is required to maintain any computer software and its accessories fit and healthy and same is the case with HP products. HP offers a wide range of laptops and desktops, and these laptops can suffer from any technical issue like, blue screen error, system ...

HP is bringing some of the data center consulting services it offers enterprises to the SMB space, and is packaging the services in such a way to make them easier to get through channel partners. - Hewlett-Packard is looking to give owners of smaller data centers access ...

Compact, flexible and increasingly stylish (and ubiquitous), USB flash drives are a must-have storage accessory for business and for life, and companies like Hewlett-Packard, Sony and SanDisk are bringing out a range of affordable ones. Rugged construction, low prices and simple interfaces, combined with security enhancements that work to keep ...

HP, Cisco and Juniper added $600 million in incremental revenue to the Ethernet switch market in the fourth quarter of 2009, according to DellOro Group. In addition, the 10GbE segment continues to be the strongest area of the market. - The Ethernet switch market continues to expand, ...

News Analysis: How do two companies like Cisco Systems and Hewlett-Packard go on working together to serve common customers and providing innovative products when they cannot share proprietary information? - Cisco Systems and Hewlett-Packard, once the best of friends in selling each other's IT software and hardware into ...

The new switches will replace 4GB units from Cisco over time. They contain 20 Fibre Channel ports apiece and can be stacked up to six per cluster to scale out a storage area network, which would top out at 120 ports and up to 24 20G-bps interswitch link ports. ...

IT giants Cisco Systems and HP will continue to honor SLAs and other contracts with existing customers, but the intensified competition to build data centers of the future has driven the two apart. - Cisco Systems and Hewlett-Packard made it official Feb. 18: They are getting a divorce, ...