As part of the changes, the head of HP's Autonomy division, Mike Lynch, is being replaced by Bill Veghte, HP's chief strategy officer.
Bracelin figures HP's U.S. retail PC sales will sink by 7%, a drop that will drag sales growth down for HP's entire PC business.
While PCs account for just a fraction of HP's sales, the business has been a key part of HP's resurgence over the past few years.
In a note to investors last Thursday, Bernstein Research analyst Toni Sacconaghi argued that HP's strong performance over the past year coupled with a "softer tech spending environment" will force HP's revenue growth to slow down over the coming quarters.
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.
ENGADGET: HP Moonshot server class leaves concept, to power commercial-grade internet of the future
Since then, Hurd's HP has focused on smaller fish, many of them supplementing HP's lucrative software business.
The phone felt slightly fuller in the hand compared to the recent glut of sub-10mm devices, measuring in at just under 12mm thick, but like Palm's HP's now defunct Pre range, it's a very comfortable fit in the hand.
On the surface that may not seem like a positive for HP but it's an important indicator of where spending is headed and at some level helps validate HP's purchase of Compaq.
To help improve Autonomy's performance, Bill Veghte, HP's chief strategy officer and executive vice president of HP Software, will step in to lead Autonomy.
ENGADGET: HP cuts 27,000 jobs, profit tumbles 31 percent in Q2
Under both Sun's N1 and HP's product is software from a startup called Terraspring .
What's more, HP's winning bid came in at just 20 cents a share more than its primary rival.
We remain hopeful that once the 650 is out this problem will get solved (we're dying to find phone that's comparable to HP's h6315 Pocket PC Phone that we can use to make VoIP calls).
So it looks like whatever spat was going on between HP and Apple over HP's line of HP-branded iPods is over, because they're apparently slated to release a whole new mess of iPods in the next few weeks.
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.
HP's premier America's client event, HP Discover takes place June 11-13 in Las Vegas.
ENGADGET: HP Moonshot server class leaves concept, to power commercial-grade internet of the future
This week's release of the HP TouchPad, the first device other than a handset to feature webOS, aptly demonstrates the promise and perils of HP's adopted operating system.
But struggles turning HP's plan into reality cost HP Chief Executive Carly Fiorina her job in 2005.
And as Jobs soaks up more market share, he'll start to make Hurd's life--and HP's steady march forward--just a touch less predictable.
Carly Fiorina, Hurd's predecessor, made building up HP's services arm a priority.
It's all part of her vision of HP's leading a commerce-rich "Chapter 2 of the Internet, " (skipping past its absence from Chapter 1).
In 2012 his successor, Meg Whitman, who ran eBay before an unsuccessful attempt to become California's governor, will try to restore HP's shine.
When confronted by Dunn, Keyworth refused a request to resign from the board, though he's not expected to be renominated at HP's next shareholder meeting.
Other bells and whistles include Intel Wireless Display, HP's CoolSense technology, Beats, HP Wireless Audio, full copies of Photoshop and Premiere Elements and a two-year subscription to Norton Internet Security.
The differences between the HP Envy 14 Beats Edition and the plain ol' Envy 14 have been primarily aesthetic -- it's got a black Beats branded lid and red backlit keyboard -- but HP's also included that set of Monster Beats Solo headphones you see up there.
Though HP's Procurve line of switches already compete with Cisco's hardware, the 3Com deal will offer HP far more firepower in the war to own the corporate data center. 3Com, a dot-com boom and bust veteran, recently launched a new series of data center switches that compete directly with Cisco's Nexus switching line and cost about 40% less on average, according to the Yankee Group.
The firm's PC business is the world's biggest, but is not as profitable as HP's other units.
It also helps that the keys have a soft finish, along with some crisp backlighting (there's a light underneath each key, similar to HP's Radiance setup).
Including Fiorina, each of HP's 15 highest-ranking executives (10 from HP, 5 from Compaq) is a seller as well as a manager, calling on 7 to 15 accounts.
Earlier this week, HP got a little boost from a Merrill Lynch (nyse: MER - news - people ) analyst who in a report said that HP's latest monochrome laser printers were priced less than Lexmark's, a fact that it says will help HP maintain its dominant market share in that segment.
"Show me the product--it's not a technology model, it's a selling model, " says David Donetelli, HP's head of servers, networking and storage, and until 2009 Tucci's heir apparent at EMC.
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