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• Ellison, Phillips, McDermott to take stand in Oracle-SAP retrial

  By Chris Kanaracus | 24 May, 2012 16:49

  During the upcoming retrial of Oracle's corporate-theft lawsuit against SAP, the companies plan to call a star-studded array of tech executives as witnesses including CEO Larry Ellison, former Oracle co-president and current Infor CEO Charles Phillips and SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott, according to court documents filed Thursday.

• UPDATED: HP slashes 27,000 jobs as part of restructuring program

  By Agam Shah | 23 May, 2012 20:52

  It's official. Hewlett-Packard will cut 27,000 employees as part of its long-term restructuring plan, the company said when it announced quarterly financial results.

• HP plans massive layoff, say reports

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 19 May, 2012 03:37

  The last time Hewlett-Packard Co. announced a layoff of 25,000 people, it was on the same day that Lehman Brothers collapsed and the stock market nose-dived. That was in September 2008.

• HP expands Cloud services beta

  By Joab Jackson | 11 May, 2012 00:44

  Preparing for its entry into the market for IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service), Hewlett-Packard has launched a second beta program of Cloud computing services it plans to offer commercially.

• Potential bidding war emerges for Quest Software

  By Chris Kanaracus | 10 May, 2012 01:38

  A number of parties have submitted bids to acquire Quest Software, which announced in March that it was going private via a US$2 billion stock buyback in partnership with equity firm Insight Venture Partners.

• HP tries to beat Ultrabook pricing with thin-and-light Sleekbooks

  By Agam Shah | 09 May, 2012 14:02

  Hewlett-Packard announced new Envy Ultrabooks on Wednesday, but also a new aggressively priced thin-and-light brand of laptops called Envy Sleekbooks, which boast starting prices that are US$150 lower than ultrabooks.

• HP announces 'world's first' portable multifunction printer

  By Agam Shah | 09 May, 2012 10:51

  Hewlett-Packard on Wednesday announced the OfficeJet 150 Mobile All-in-One portable printer, which the company called the world's first mobile multifunction device that can "print, copy and scan on the go."

• Tibco adds Hadoop support to its Spotfire in-memory analytics

  By Chris Kanaracus | 07 May, 2012 14:06

  Tibco has brought its Spotfire in-memory analytics software into the burgeoning ecosystem around Hadoop, an open-source framework for processing large sets of information, the company announced Tuesday.

• Facebook's open-source data-center project gains strength

  By Agam Shah | 03 May, 2012 06:21

  Facebook's year-old project to develop open-source hardware designs with the aim to build efficient data centers gained momentum on Wednesday, with some top technology companies joining the effort and introducing server designs.

• Hitachi-LG Data Storage exec pleads guilty to price-fixing

  By Grant Gross | 01 May, 2012 05:11

  An executive with Hitachi-LG Data Storage (HLDS) has agreed to plead guilty and serve time in a U.S. prison for his participation in a series of conspiracies to rig bids for the sale of optical disk drives to Hewlett-Packard, the U.S. Department of Justice said.

• AT&T, Google among top lobbying spenders in first quarter

  By Grant Gross | 01 May, 2012 04:13

  AT&T spent nearly US$7.1 million on lobbying the U.S. Congress and President Barack Obama's administration in the first quarter of 2012, making it the leading corporate spender on lobbying, with Google, Comcast and Verizon Communications also making the top five.

• HP: Oracle executives believed Sun acquisition was a mistake

  By John Ribeiro | 17 April, 2012 17:01

  Oracle decided on an aggressive strategy against Hewlett-Packard's Itanium servers after sales of competing Sun's Sparc servers had been in a free fall, and Oracle's executives stated internally that the company's 2010 acquisition of Sun Microsystems was a mistake, HP said in a filing Monday in its dispute with Oracle over the porting of its software to the Itanium platform.

• HP takes aim at Amazon with public cloud, virtual network components

  By Brandon Butler | 10 April, 2012 23:27

  Hewlett-Packard today announced a series of open source-based cloud offerings and added network automation capabilities to its hardware products in an attempt to carve out its piece of a market currently topped by Amazon Web Services.

• Whitman: Political campaign gave her 'thick skin'

  By Elizabeth Heichler | 06 April, 2012 00:45

  Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman's bruising run for governor of California left her with a quality that she needs as she seeks to turn around the computer giant: very "thick skin," she told the Simmons Leadership Conference in Boston on Thursday.

• Shell Oil targets hybrid cloud as fix for energy-saving, agile IT

  By Lucas Mearian | 04 April, 2012 23:34

  DALLAS - Two years ago, Shell Oil's IT subsidiary found itself in a somewhat ironic situation. It was facing staggering energy costs.