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Microsoft encourages students to buy a PC, gives them a free Xbox 360 in return

# 2012-05-18 07:31:00, Engadget
Students. PCs. Free Xbox 360. The Redmond team's at it yet again. Similar to last year's deal, Microsoft's hooking students up with a 4GB Xbox 360 if they drop some cash on one of its Windows machines. It's simple: shell out over $699 on a PC, or $599 if you're in Canada, and you'll be walking out...

Woot! A $200 32GB HP TouchPad

# 2012-05-18 02:23:55, TechCrunch
Yeah, it's not $99 and it's refurbished but it's still a TouchPad. The tablet was once heralded as an iPad killer. Now, I'm not sure if it could even kill a Notion Ink Adam in a head-to-head sales battle. But still, thanks to an honestly smart move from HP, the TouchPad and webOS is valuable to some in the development community. But you ...

HP may cut 25,000 jobs

# 2012-05-17 10:00:59, BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech
Hewlett-Packard is reportedly mulling a massive workforce reduction that will see as many as 25,000 jobs cut from the company. Bloomberg cites unnamed sources in reporting on the potential layoffs, which would amount to 8% of HP’s global workforce. Between 10,000 and 15,000 of the cuts could come from HP’s enterprise services group, ...

HP’s Stock Price Is Climbing Amid Massive Layoff Rumors

# 2012-05-17 09:03:20, TechCrunch
HP is reportedly going to be announcing massive layoffs next Wednesday. Conflicting reports state somewhere between 25K and 30K jobs, between 7% and 8% of HP's global workforce, could be eliminated in an effort to absorb losses from decreasing demand for the company's products and services. The cuts...

HP will reportedly announce restructuring plan next week, up to 30,000 job cuts

# 2012-05-17 09:01:00, Engadget
It looks like HP could be in store for another wave of big changes. According to a pair of reports out today (backing up a report from Business Insider yesterday), HP CEO Meg Whitman will announce a new restructuring plan on the company's earnings call next Wednesday -- a plan that will entail som...

Editorial: Thin laptops are the new mainstream, but what about battery life?

# 2012-05-16 08:00:00, Engadget
Bandwagons, trains and Tranes. Can't say that these three have a heck of a lot in common in most regards, but one thing's for sure: trying to stop this trio would be a Herculean task. And so it goes with laptops -- once upon a time, it was good enough to have something that resembled a portable to...

Refresh Roundup: week of May 7th, 2012

# 2012-05-13 14:34:00, Engadget
Your smartphone and / or tablet is just begging for an update. From time to time, these mobile devices are blessed with maintenance refreshes, bug fixes, custom ROMs and anything in between, and so many of them are floating around that it's easy for a sizable chunk to get lost in the mix. To make ...

HP teases new Envy all-in-one printer, glass and metal dotted all over (video)

# 2012-05-11 12:03:00, Engadget
We all love teasers, so it's rather swell that HP decided to tease its next Envy-branded all-in-one printer at the Global Influencer Summit in Shanghai -- almost two years after introducing the Envy 100. As you can see in the above slide and the extremely brief video teaser after the break, this t...

HP takes print away from town for seven days, laughs at 'print is dead' claim (updated)

# 2012-05-11 11:06:00, Engadget
With e-books and digital subscription of magazines and newspapers becoming the new hot, many are sending off the message that print is gradually losing or has even already lost to its digital counterpart, while others argue that print is far from dead. Needless to say, being one of the leading man...

Visualized: HP's all-in-one PCs over the years, one from 1983

# 2012-05-11 10:07:00, Engadget
HP's TouchSmart sub-brand and its other AIOs should be no stranger to many PC advocates, but in case you've never come across one before, the company's laid all of them out on one side of its Global Influencer Summit in Shanghai. Models range from the TouchSmart IQ770 launched back in 2007, all th...

HP t410 AIO Smart Zero Client does single-wire Power over Ethernet, no power cord required

# 2012-05-10 09:41:00, Engadget
Now, we don't normally cover this sort of networking equipment, but we were quite impressed by HP's new t410 All-in-One Smart Zero Client after we spoke to its proud product manager Walt Jurek. First of all, this isn't an AIO desktop PC, nor is it an LCD monitor -- well, if you're unfamiliar with ...

That Which We Call An Ultrabook By Any Other Name Would Smell As Sleek

# 2012-05-10 03:01:41, TechCrunch
Yesterday, to much fanfare and resolute sentiment, HP announced a return to what made it a great company to begin with: poorly-named and generic computing devices tarted up to take on Dell. This year it's the HP Envy SpectreXT, a thin and light that can't officially be called an Ultrabook because th...

Surprise, Printer Cartridges Come Filled with Less Ink Every Year [Printers]

# 2012-05-10 02:51:57, Gizmodo
Actually, it's not really a surprise. We already know that replacement inkjet cartridges are ridiculously overpriced, but it turns out that since 2010 the amount of ink included in each HP cart has been dramatically shrinking. More

Meg Whitman: HP's engineering is very much still alive, aims to be cloud computing leader

# 2012-05-09 23:17:00, Engadget
HP sure knows how to wrap up a party -- by letting its CEO make a surprise appearance right at the end of the show. Joining Todd Bradley on the stage, Meg Whitman reassured the audience with her company's "commitment to fantastic products," and that "engineering is very much still alive from HP." ...

Company sues Apple, others over claim of patent on 3G

# 2012-05-09 15:30:00, TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
This is one of the weirder claims in the already strange area of patent claims going on around cellphone technology lately. A company based in New Jersey named Golden Bridge Technologies has come forward saying that it owns patents on some technologies that were eventually used to create the 3G...

HP's most popular laptop screen sizes: 15-inch in the US, 14-inch in China

# 2012-05-09 06:44:00, Engadget
Here's another interesting tidbit from today's HP event in Shanghai: according to Kevin Frost, Vice President and General Manager of Consumer Notebooks Business Unit, 15-inch is currently the most popular laptop screen size in the US, while the folks in China prefer 14-inch offerings. Oddly enough...

HP on laptop design similarities with Apple's: it's a struggle as we drive to simplicity

# 2012-05-09 03:57:00, Engadget
HP's spent the afternoon here in Shanghai to share some details about its latest products and strategy, and to our delight, there was one session dedicated to "Style Meets Function," during which Vice President of Industrial Design Stacy Wolff talked about his design philosophy and design goals fo...

HP Spectre XT: HP's Glass Wonder Now Has a Smaller, Cheaper and Aluminum-Clad Sibling [Laptops]

# 2012-05-08 18:00:00, Gizmodo
When HP unveiled the Envy 14 Spectre this past January, they offered up something that had been missing from the HP line in the past couple of years: a truly premium notebook. With the introduction of the 13-inch, aluminum-shelled Envy Spectre XT, what was once a single product is primed to be...

HP refreshes EliteBook line with five new models, Ivy Bridge and optional LTE

# 2012-05-08 17:06:00, Engadget
HP is in full-on laptop-unveiling mode, and the company's business line isn't getting left out -- in fact, it has five new models -- including an 11-incher, a first for this series. The boardroom-bound EliteBooks are making the step up to Ivy Bridge, but it's also adding the option of LTE across t...

HP outs new 23-inch 2311ix IPS LED backlit monitor

# 2012-05-08 17:06:00, Engadget
Along with tons of new notebooks, HP is unveiling a 23-inch display, the 2311xi. The screen has a 1920 x 1080 resolution with a brightness of 250 nits, and makes use of an IPS panel to promise wide viewing angles (178 degrees both horizontally and vertically, says HP). Also on board are VGA, HDMI ...

HP refreshes its Pavilion laptops ahead of back-to-school season, intros six new models

# 2012-05-08 17:06:00, Engadget
You may have noticed that HP unleashed a torrent of laptops today, but at the heart of it all, even more crucial than those Ultrabooks and business laptops, are the notebooks Hewlett-Packard plans to sell to college kids during the all-important back-to-school season. This go-round, the company's ...

HP unveils second business Ultrabook, the EliteBook Folio

# 2012-05-08 17:03:00, Engadget
We actually have one more EliteBook to introduce, and this time it's an Ultrabook. The EliteBook Folio 9470m is ready to sidle up next to the Folio 13, HP's first business-grade Ultrabook, as a higher-end option. The 14-inch Folio is thin and light, starting at 3.6 pounds, but the 0.75-inch chassi...

HP refreshes its ProBook laptops for small businesses

# 2012-05-08 17:01:00, Engadget
HP's already outed a bunch of business laptops today, but so far they've all been aimed at the enterprise level -- machines an IT manager would deploy on the order of thousands. But while it was at it, the company also refreshed its ProBook lineup for small businesses, the sort of operations that ...

HP intros three Compaq desktops, two displays for the business set

# 2012-05-08 17:00:00, Engadget
In addition to all the laptops and printers HP announced today, it also has a few goodies for the cube monkeys out there. The company just outed a trio of business-grade desktops, along with two monitors. First up, there's the Compaq Elite 8300, which is aimed squarely at large businesses with IT-...

HP unveils Envy Spectre XT Ultrabook, other thin-and-lights in various sizes

# 2012-05-08 16:58:00, Engadget
What's that? You're hungry for more HP laptops? Good! Because we're not nearly done yet! The company just expanded its line of Ultrabooks from two to five, and that's not even counting this guy. And, the company also plans to sell so-called Sleekbooks -- essentially, thin-and-light laptops that do...

HP introduces Officejet 150 all-in-one mobile printer, Photosmart 5220

# 2012-05-08 16:21:00, Engadget
We've seen mobile scanners and portable printers, but a combination of the two has been slow in coming. Well, the mobile all-in-one has finally arrived. HP's new Officejet 150 has built-in Bluetooth for printing docs from Windows Phone and BlackBerry devices, and it lets you scan to PC and email f...

Live from HP's Global Influencer Summit 2012 in Shanghai!

# 2012-05-08 15:25:00, Engadget
Good evening or good morning, wherever you are. We've just sat down at HP's Global Influencer Summit 2012 in Shanghai and will be seeing what the company's got up its sleeves for the rest of the year, so sit back, relax, and enjoy our liveblog right after the break.Continue reading Live from HP's ...

So Much News in China… #045

# 2012-05-06 19:10:02, M.I.C. Gadget
There are so much news from China that passes by that we couldn't possibly cover it all. Here are the Chinese tech news that have left behind because we are just too busy or too lazy to post. There are stories on Xiaomi's revenue, the secret of Huawei CEO, Alibaba profit lose, Tencent Wechat and so on, check them out after the break. Vide...

HP reclaims top spot in PC sales, market as a whole climbs 21 percent

# 2012-05-01 08:55:00, Engadget
Well, Apple's reign atop the list of the world's top PC makers was short lived. After clawing its way into the lead, if you counted the iPad as a PC, HP is back atop the heap -- even with Cupertino's tablet-inflated numbers. According to Canalys, the Palo Alto company shipped 15.8 million units in...

Report: This Could Be HP's First Windows 8 Tablet [Rumors]

# 2012-04-27 06:47:01, Gizmodo
A slide supposedly leaked from an HP presentation revealing our first look at what might be HP's first Windows 8 tablet. If you believe the slide obtained by Neowin the HP Slate 8 will be a 10.1-inch, 9.2mm thick, 1.5-pound tablet—in other words it has a slightly bigger screen but a slimmer b...