HP’s Windows-equipped Slate 500 ends months of speculation about the company’s Windows tablet plans. But will it sell? – Hewlett-Packards launch of its Slate 500 tablet, priced at $799 and
preinstalled with Windows 7 Professional, represents the end of a long and
winding saga between the manufacturer and Microsoft.
The story begins 10 months ago. During
his Jan. 6 keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show,…
Hewlett-Packard first demonstrated its new Slate 500 tablet computer in January at CES in Las Vegas. Now, after a series of development fits and starts, you can finally buy one just in time for the holidays. Hewlett-Packard says this 6-inch-by-9-inch touch-screen device is not a direct competitor to the Apple iPad and that it wants to position it as primarily a business tool. The company may be making the right call overall. But the market will ultimately determine who buys what and for what purpose. "You won’t be able to buy this at retail," HP Personal Systems Group Public Relations Manager Mike Hockey told eWEEK. "We’re making it available strictly on our Website, because we’re looking at it as a business-type device." HP contends that the Slate 500 is a tablet computer that can do anything a regular PC can do, since it comes installed with the professional version of Windows 7 and has the look and feel of a regular PC. This slide show offers a close-up look at the first touch-screen tablet produced by the world’s largest IT company. – …
Review: It’s understandable why HP is positioning its new tablet PC for a different market from the iPad: It’s not going to compete well in the consumer arena. – eWEEK had an opportunity Oct. 21 to test the new HP
Slate 500 tablet, and, as one might imagine, it’s similar but not at all
the same experience to an Apple iPad.
It’s completely understandable why Hewlett-Packard is positioning its
6-by-9-inch device for a different market from that of the i…
When it comes to the features offered on various printing appliances, security is often overlooked. While your business may not require something as specialized as Zebra’s ZXP Series 8 Secure Issuance printer, it is important to consider the ways vendors protect their printers (and your business) from viruses and unwarranted or unauthorized usage. While HP’s Secure Print Advantage solution was introduced three years ago, other vendors have taken their time offering security as a major part of their platform. This year, however, Xerox made security a prime focus with the introduction of its WorkCentre 7545 and WorkCentre 7556 color multifunction printers (MFPs). The printers come equipped with advanced security features including hard disk encryption; image overwrite to electronically "shred" data; fax isolation to prevent unauthorized access to data; and network authentication to restrict access to scan, e-mail and fax features. In an age where the advanced wireless capabilities of many MFPs can give unauthorized users access to files that should not be printed, your business needs a secure printer. Here, are eight machines every business should check out when considering a printer purchase. – …
HP is positioning it in a different category than Apple’s iPad, which it considers a "media-oriented tablet" for consumers. – SAN FRANCISCO — Hewlett-Packard started selling its long-awaited new Slate 500 tablet portable computer on its Website early on Oct. 22. Some earlier reports had the devices becoming available on Oct. 25.
HP, which priced the new 6-inch-by-9-inch device at $799, is positioning it in a different …
HP is positioning its Slate in a different category than Apple’s iPad, which it considers a "media-oriented tablet" for consumers. – SAN FRANCISCO–Hewlett-Packard started selling its long-awaited new Slate 500 tablet portable computer on its Website early on Oct. 22. Some earlier reports had the devices becoming available on Oct. 25.
HP, which priced the new 6-inch-by-9-inch device at $799, is
positioning it in a different c…
Hewlett-Packard Oct. 19 offered the first indication of what it will do with its Palm assets and talent with the introduction of HP WebOS 2.0 and the Palm Pre 2 smartphone, which will be available Oct. 22 in France from SFR and in the United States from Verizon Wireless in the coming months. Pricing is not yet available for the device, which sports a 3.1-inch multitouch screen with a 320-by-480-resolution HVGA display and slide-out QWERTY keyboard. HP bought struggling Palm for $1.2 billion in April, sparking speculation about whether HP would force Palm to scrap its phones and make just tablet computers with WebOS. HP’s introduction of the Palm Pre 2 is proof positive that the company intends to vie for market share against Research In Motion’s BlackBerry devices, Apple’s iPhone and smartphones based on Google’s Android operating system. In this slide show eWEEK lists 10 key features of the Palm Pre 2, based on WebOS 2. – …
HP certainly is one of the few companies with the knowledge farm to put together such a comprehensive program. – Before an enterprise can build an expensive new-generation data center with
a converged infrastructure, the CTO, CIO
or IT manager needs to get the right training to see that the job gets done
correctly.
Knowing all about this, Hewlett-Packard on Oct. 20 introduced at Interop New
York what it…
HP has introduced WebOS 2.0, a "significant" update to the Palm OS. It will debut on the new Pre 2 smartphone on the Verizon Wireless network in "the coming months." – Hewlett-Packard has introduced WebOS 2.0, the long-promised update to the
open source OS it acquired during its $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm in July.
Additionally, HP, which has been keen
to rejoin the lucrative smartphone market, introduced the Palm Pre 2 a
speedier, updated version of the …
HP has reportedly beefed up its Palm WebOS team with a MeeGo executive from Nokia and an R&D executive from Samsung. Even internal HP staff are now focused on WebOS. – As Hewlett-Packard prepares to
launch the first new smartphones under the Palm brand since it purchased
the WebOS maker, it’s apparently also beefing up its Palm staff with key
executives from some of its rivals.
Ari Jaaksi, who resigned earlier this month from Nokia citing quot;personal
reas…
Thanks to its purchase of 3Com, HP is the worlds second-largest Ethernet port vendor in the rapidly consolidating networking space, behind Cisco but just ahead of D-Link. – Hewlett-Packard is now the second-largest Ethernet port vendor, thanks to its $2.7 billion acquisition earlier this year of 3Com.
According to market research firm In-Stat, HP in the second quarter jumped over D-Link to grab the second-place spot behind Cisco Systems in total Ethernet port shipment…
HP gets a $26 million contract to deliver IT support for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. – Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Services has received a $26 million order to continue its IT support for the Department of Health and Human Services’ CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) division.
Under the contract announced Oct. 13, HP will maintain an IDR (Integrated Data Repository) fo…
French carrier SFR advertised a Palm Pre 2 on its Website, raising speculation that the Pre 2 is the webOS-running device HP has slated for early 2011. – Hewlett-Packards first WebOS-running smartphone looks to be a Palm Pre 2.
SFR, the second-largest mobile carrier in France, touted the device
on its Website Oct. 12, before apparently noting its faux pas and
pulling the page though not before PreCentral.net grabbed a screenshot.
The Palm Pre 2…
For cost-conscious companies in an increasingly mobile world, it often can be difficult to find a notebook computer that is easily portable, powerful enough to replace a desktop PC, and offers the kind of battery life that allows road warriors and off-site employees the freedom they need. At the same time, small businesses don’t often need the fancy entertainment-enhancing features that drive up prices they need durable, powerful and portable machines with WiFi capability, Web cameras and other features to connect them to the mobile business network. Toshiba recently introduced a line of Satellite and Portage notebooks that offer connectivity to the WiMax 4G mobile Internet, currently available in 54 cities in the United States. With that in mind, here’s a selection of 10 laptops from a host of vendors including Acer, Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Lenovo that offer a compact form factor, important connectivity features like Bluetooth, HDMI and USB and, most importantly, they won’t break the budget. – …
HP smartphones running webOS will come to market in early 2011, an HP executive reportedly confirmed. webOS was a major motivator of HPs $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm. – Hewlett-Packard wants to do what Palm could not: Build a strong business around webOS-based smartphones. The PC giant, which purchased Palm earlier this year,
will begin introducing smartphones running the operating system in
early 2011, Reuters reported Oct. 6, citing comments by Eric Cador,
sen…
Jack Welch, former GE CEO, called HPs board “dysfunctional” and criticized it for its handling of Mark Hurds resignation and Leo Apothekers appointment as CEO. – Former General Electric CEO Jack Welch is the latest executive to
take shots at Hewlett-Packard’s board for its handling of the issue
involving former CEO Mark Hurd and the subsequent hiring of Leo Apotheker as his replacement.
During an interview with Bloomberg Television,
Welch called HPs boar…
Hewlett-Packard and Quest Diagnostics will offer a joint EMR or EHR health care IT package targeting small and midsize doctor’s offices. – Hewlett-Packard
has joined in a co-marketing program with MedPlus, the IT unit of medical
laboratory company Quest Diagnostics, to offer its hardware products along with
MedPlus’ online-based Care360 EHR
software.
MedPlus
will bundle its EHR (electronic health records) platform with HP’s har…
Hewlett-Packard unveils networking and ProLiant systems to simplify branch office management and data center deployment, and also debuts a TippingPoint-based security service. – Hewlett-Packard rolled out new features Oct. 5 for its Converged
Infrastructure portfolio to provide customers with integrated servers, storage,
networking and software.
The announcement introduced a series of offerings designed to simplify
branch office management, a new HP TippingPoint securit…
Computers have evolved very rapidly over the past few years. This rapid development has brought about many advances that make our work and our altogether experience highly interactive and easy. Computers have now become faster, more capable and can be utilized at works previously unimaginable.
HP named former SAP CEO Leo Apotheker to be its new chief executive, leading to questions of whether his background in enterprise software will be enough for HP to battle in both the enterprise and consumer markets. – Hewlett-Packard anointed former SAP CEO
Leo Apotheker as its new chief executive Sept. 30. Now that speculation about
HP’s choice for its next CEO has
concluded, the chattering can begin in earnest about Apotheker’s
suitability for the job, and whether his presence will be a positive one for
H…
