Motion-control company Leap Motion has announced a deal to embed its technology within HP computers.
In addition, the program comes pre-installed on all HP computers, and Easybits has just signed a similar deal with a rival computer maker that should see Magic Desktop being pre-installed on 10 million computers by the end of 2008, Mr Jolstad says.
Ballmer and Asdourian briefly showed off Windows-running tablet computers from HP, Pegatron and Asus.
In addition, Fiorina is expanding an existing relationship with the DreamWorks SKG to include remote collaboration for geographically dispersed animation teams, and provide access to a secure, high-speed network of HP's own computers to handle overflow rendering of highly detailed images.
And if you think of it like Microsoft Windows is an operating system that runs on several computers, like HP, Dell, and Toshiba...
He was notably less willing than she to compare HP to either IBM, with which HP competes in services and servers, and Dell, HP's rival in personal computers.
He was notably less willing than she to compare HP to either IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ), with which HP competes in services and servers, and Dell (nasdaq: DELL - news - people ), HP's rival in personal computers.
By focusing on the cloud, HP is linking disparate technologies, from personal computers and printers to servers, and from mobile phones to computer-networking equipment, according to The Associated Press.
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It has deals with companies such as Dell and HP to embed its tracking agent into their computers' boot-up software, where it is more difficult for a thief to remove than from the hard drive.
It is, of course, the week of the Consumer Electronics Show, where HP is showing a whole range of new personal computers, laptops, and other gear.
Criminal hackers are spending more time investigating security flaws in Mac computers, Reuters reports, as Apple gains further market share in desktop computers from PC makers like Dell, HP and Lenovo.
According to FORBES contributor Anthony Wing Kosner, HP plans to embed Leap Motion technology directly into its computers in coming years.
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Lenoovo overtook HP in the third quarter of this year to become the largest seller of personal computers by volume, IT research firm Gartner said last month.
Price points that low don't leave much room for profit, although HP has done a nice job of making outstandingly engineered and more profitable laptop and handheld computers.
Dell depends on selling personal computers for the majority of its revenue, while desktops contribute only a quarter of HP's sales.
For a company whose image has grown staid in recent years--its mainstay is still printers and computers and the company largely missed out on the first big Internet wave--HP is trying to get back on the cutting edge track.
But that progress has been slow, and Dell, which ranks behind HP and Lenovo in PC sales, still gets almost half of its revenue from its desktop and notebook computers.
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Meanwhile, Dell been hustling to build computers with more curb appeal in a consumer market where it faces tough competition from Apple, HP, Acer, Asus, Samsung, and a host of others.
Analysts saw the talks as part of a consolidation trend, as HP, IBM and Cisco Systems jostle for control of corporate data centers and compete to supply the high-end computers that power complex corporate transactions and networks.
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