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Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday unveiled an expanded program to woo Sun server customers using either Sun's Sparc processors or x86 chips from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices.

Under one element of program, HP is expanding its certification of Sun's Solaris 10 operating system onto seven new Intel Xeon-based server models. HP argues that capturing Sun Solaris customers lets HP persuade them to buy Linux instead, but Sun argues that Solaris is the stickier relationship and that the operating system is leading to new customers.

The other element of the program is geared for those running Solaris on Sparc chips. … Read more

Three Hewlett-Packard executives--Ann Livermore, Mark Hudson and Nick van der Zweep--are scheduled to hold a news conference on February 13. A new version of the company's Unix is a likely candidate for some of their attention, given the company's stated plan to announce HP-UX 11i version 3 in early 2007.

HP planned to begin shipping the software in late 2006, but the company's Web site still just promotes HP-UX 11i version 2 as current.

Update: The event is February 13, not the date originally reported.

Hewlett-Packard's data-center cooling technology is getting closer to becoming something customers can buy.

The company plans to announce Wednesday that its technology, now officially called Dynamic Smart Cooling, will be available in the third quarter of 2007. The technology, which works with anybody's data center, is designed to keep data centers packed with computing gear cool at a lower cost than with conventional air conditioning.

The technology combines hundreds of sensors with adjustable blowers and air-flow modeling software. HP boasts the technology can cut cooling costs by 20 to 45 percent. HP estimates a small data center of … Read more

Hewlett-Packard and contract manufacturer Flextronics have struck a deal that's likely to improve the quality of your cell phone photos.

Flextronics has licensed digital-imaging technology from HP and will begin to incorporate the technology into cell phones that hit the market in 2007. HP currently includes the same technology in its own digital cameras. The upshot is that the 3-megapixel shots taken with these tiny camera phones will be largely equivalent to the shots taken by digital still cameras. Flextronics makes phones for Motorola, Kyocera and Sony Ericsson, among others.

Camera phones are an emerging threat to the still-growing … Read more

The burgeoning scandal at Hewlett-Packard reflects a broader problem that Congress must tackle through new laws, the Democratic co-chairman of the Congressional Privacy Caucus said Friday.

"Clearly the problem of corporations using private detectives and information brokers to obtain illicit access to telephone records and other personal information is not limited to Hewlett-Packard," Rep. Edward Markey, a veteran Massachusetts politician, said in a statement. "Congress needs to be asking exactly how widespread this practice is, and whether companies are skirting or even violating the law by prying into the details of people's telephone records or other … Read more

PALO ALTO, Calif.--Hewlett-Packard's CEO Mark Hurd addressed issues surrounding the company's probe into journalists and its board members as part of an investigation into leaks to the media. Mike Holston, a lawyer with Morgan Lewis, followed Hurd to the podium. Below is a record of live updates as the press conference took place. Click here for post conference coverage.

1:38--The press conference ends.

1:37--"We have not seen evidence of any wiretapping; we have not seen any evidence that computer keystrokes were tapped. We do not have any information to support the contention that … Read more

In the interests of self-promotion, Hewlett-Packard shot its high-end XP12000 storage system with a high-powered rifle.

The advertisement, housed at YouTube, shows white-coated engineers shooting a bullet through the refrigerator-sized disk array (and an adjacent fish tank) to demonstrate the system's reliability.

However, frustrated sysadmins should be cautioned against trying the technique, even if frustrated by traditional system management software.

"HP specifically does not warrant that the HP XP Disk Array can perform under a similar environment," the company warns in legal boilerplate accompanying the ad. "HP shall not be liable for any damages, including loss … Read more

Hewlett-Packard has hired Richard Fichera as director of BladeSystem strategy, the computer maker said Monday.

Fichera has been a longtime server analyst, most recently working for Forrester Research, though he spent a two-year stint at high-end blade specialist Egenera.

At HP, Fichera will advise the computer maker on its BladeSystem products and marketing strategy. He reports to Rick Becker, vice president and general manager of HP BladeSystem and volume software, HP said.

Eben Moglen, Hewlett-Packard, Linus Torvalds have been debating merits and demerits of the latest draft of the General Public License (GPL), which governs innumerable open-source projects.

But Tim O'Reilly, chief executive of publisher O'Reilly and Associates and a longtime open-source software supporter, believes they're debating yesterday's issues.

In his blog Tuesday, O'Reilly argued that interactive Internet services are where much programming and software activity takes place.

"Because (open-source licenses') conditions are all triggered by the act of software distribution, they fail to apply to many of the most important types of software today, namely … Read more