The stories on this subject just don't stop coming. Now it seems that the bean-counters in HP Grenoble have finally woken up and realised what the rest of the world has known for a long time. There are far too many chips and too many chips makes for a poor …
Read More »HP beats up Epson – will it affect financials?
As Epson prepares to unveil its financial results, KitGuru takes a look at the printer market and wonders if the beating being handed out by HP in the print space will affect anything. Can Epson still thrive in the face of competitors that can easily out muscle it and earthquakes …
Read More »HP’s new business laptops with up to 32 hours battery life
Only yesterday KitGuru was reporting that Lenovo were releasing new machines with battery life of up to 30 hours. Today HP announced their new range of laptops, including the EliteBook 8460p with up to 32 hours of battery life. This new range is targeting the professional market place, with tough …
Read More »HP TouchPad looks stunning, but will it make an impact?
Hewlett Packard are due to release two new webOS driven smartphones and a new TouchPad Tablet PC. The Pre3 and Veer smartphones appear to be highly evolved devices with many customers excited about their release and their new TouchPad device is also a technological feast of wonders. The TouchPad will …
Read More »Apple purchase HP land to expand Cupertino base
Apple have just purchased a 98 acre area of land that will roughly double the size of their HQ in Cupertino. HP announced over the summer that it planned to move out of this area which it had occupied for many years as it consolidates operations at the Palo Alto …
Read More »Hewlett Packard to release $799 Slate 500
Hewlett Packard are launching a full blown assault on the Apple iPad with the release of their Slate 500 Tablet, which is aimed at the thriviing business market. It will be set to cost $799 and is going to satisfy those people who have to omit the Blackberry Playbook due …
Read More »HP release new Palm Pre2 and webOS 2.0
Hewlett Packward has been talking about the benefits of webOS 2.0, saying that it would offer improved multitasking by ‘stacking' similar applications into logical groups for easier, faster switching. It will also support Adobe Flash ensuring that pages with embedded flash content can be viewed by their customers. The new …
Read More »Channel poll says Cisco rocks HP
KitGuru recently reported on how Computercenter, one of the world's biggest HP customers, had shunned HP Blade servers for its own data centres. Instead, Computercenter chose newcomer Cisco. Looks like things might be about to get a whole lot worse for HP. As HP is fond of saying, maybe this …
Read More »Cisco Blades cut HP out of Computercenter?
We've all heard of Black Monday, when the world's stock markets collapsed. Wikipedia sums it up nicely here. If you were HP and your biggest reseller moved all of its data centres to Cisco, would that urge you to update the company diaries to read ‘Terrible Thursday'? KitGuru investigates. It …
Read More »Buffalo nudges £19 barrier for N-class router
We’re not in the habit of flagging special offers on KitGuru. There are specialist places for this … they’re called shops. But UK reseller Dabs just pinged us with an offer that made KitGuru almost choke on the Saturday morning cornflakes. Have things really moved this far? (Move to black …
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