In mid 2009, HP purchased networking company 3Com, with gear that gave HP better access to the cloud computing market.
Built from HP's industry-leading server intellectual property (IP) and 10 years of extensive research from HP Labs, the company's central research arm, HP Moonshot delivers a significant improvement in energy, space, cost and simplicity.
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He points to SpinCircuit, a company HP funded along with Cadence Design Systems, and contract manufacturer Flextronics International.
Only a few days ago, powerhouse tech company HP threw in the towel, withdrawing from the mobility business and discontinuing its TouchPad tablet, launched less than 3 months ago.
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But HP, a company synonymous with the birth of Silicon Valley, and Compaq Computer, a Houston-based firm which once pioneered PC price-cutting, may yet have to restructure their deal or abandon it entirely.
Fiorina said she spent about 90 of her first 100 days at HP in the company's laboratories, talking with researchers and inventors and looking at new technologies being developed, including e-speak, which she described as new software at the heart of HP's belief that any product can be turned into any service.
In five and a half years at HP she shook up the company's calcified and self-satisfied style of business, known as "the HP Way, " and replaced complacency with urgency.
Huberty shifts the discussion from cutting costs to how HP will grow the company.
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No, scratch that, the PC company that HP might spin off might revive the TouchPad computer.
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Still, these developments were sorely needed by HP, as the company has lost market share.
Bracelin notes that his survey finds that despite the recent turmoil at the company, HP is still viewed as an important partner.
The world's largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems.
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Barlerin sees HP as just one company with a lot of leverage when it comes to the global conversation about volunteering and community impact.
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By integrating all these parts of the company, HP hopes to be known less as a hardware vendor, and more as a higher-margin strategic partner on big projects.
An HP spokesman said the company had no additional comment.
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It marked a return to territory they had mined before, when HP were the first company to attempted to introduce touch-screens to the commercial market in 1983 with the HP150.
For a company like HP, which makes the bulk of its revenue from selling desktop machines, the move to Web-based applications and the slackening demand for heavyweight computers don't seem like reasons to celebrate.
The world's largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure at the convergence of the cloud and connectivity, creating seamless, secure, context-aware experiences for a connected world.
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The claim was brought forward by a former HP contractor against Hurd, who had been with the tech company for five years, and HP.
Asia has traditionally been an important HP market, and the company has been hard hit there.
But if Indigo flops, he may well feel vindicated about HP's cross-company marketing strategy.
In the meantime, as I wrote shortly after HP went public, the company is in for a very tough period with its reputation management.
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Hurd had taken HP to the biggest tech company in the world, an arguable contender against both IBM and Cisco, and a model for the rest of the industry about the right way to do mergers and carry out efficient execution.
What's more, the battery will apparently not require any design changes on the part of laptop manufacturers, with HP already working with the company in the testing and validation process -- and presumably set to be one of the first to offer the battery.
The exception is HP, but that is a company bent on recalibrating in a different direction.
His legacy has been tarnished in the past decade as HP and other rivals outmaneuvered his company.
Something in HP's culture helped the company keep innovating nimbly as it grew.
Forstall is a hire that HP has to make if the company truly cares about its future and its investors.
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