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Hewlett-Packard’sfiscal fourth-quarter profit rose 5.2% as the world’s biggest computer maker saw increased demand for high-margin products such as servers and networking and storage equipment that offset lackluster consumer demand for PCs.

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Hewlett-Packard Fiscal 4Q Profit Beats Estimates originally appeared on DailyFinance on Mon, 22 Nov 2010 19:58:00.

Filed Under: Company News, Technology, Earnings, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Oracle, Apple, SAP

The launch of Microsoft’s long-anticipated motion-sensing video game, Kinect for Xbox 360, has heated the debate about whether facial-recognition software may be racist. A GameSpot review found the game didn’t recognize dark-skinned players as well as light-skinned ones. How does this happen?

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Microsoft Kinect Heats Race Debate: Does Face-Recognition Software Discriminate? originally appeared on DailyFinance on Thu, 04 Nov 2010 22:00:00.

Filed Under: Technology, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft

After Hewlett-Packard outbid Dell for cloud-computing company 3Par in September, Dell has moved on to a new — and this time, seemingly painless — acquisition target: Boomi. The company has developed software to more easily move data from the cloud to customers’ computers.

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Dell Moves Deeper into Cloud Computing with Boomi Acquisition originally appeared on DailyFinance on Tue, 02 Nov 2010 19:00:00.

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Hewlett-Packard Corp. on Friday began selling its own tablet-style personal computer, marking the computer-making giant’s entry into a rapidly-growing market dominated by Apple Inc.’s iPad.

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Hewlett-Packard Launches iPad Rival Slate originally appeared on DailyFinance on Fri, 22 Oct 2010 16:15:00.

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Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) will enter the smartphone market in early 2011 using the webOS software it acquired as part of its $1.2 billion purchase of Palm.

“You will see us coming early next year with new phones,” Senior Vice President Eric Cador said, according to Reuters.

Candor described the webOS software as “fundamental” to the purchase of Palm, a pioneer in hand-held devices.

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Hewlett-Packard to Launch Smartphone in 2011 originally appeared on DailyFinance on Wed, 06 Oct 2010 07:27:00.

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