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Hewlett Packard (HP), the world's largest seller of computers, unveiled a mini-laptop on Tuesday that sells for $500 and is aimed at the education market.

The entry-level HP Mini-Note includes a Suse Linux operating system, a 1GB memory and a 3-cell battery, while a higher priced version has Windows Vista Business, 2GB memory and a larger 6-cell battery.

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Asian computer makers including Lenovo Group Ltd and Asustek Computer are finding growth prospects in an unlikely place: the United States, a mature, slowing market compared to other regions.

By planning to offer pocket-sized, full-featured notebooks or stylish high-end machines with advanced features, the Asians will target high-growth niches, while steering clear of the broader market dominated U.S. heavyweights Hewlett-Packard Co (HP), Dell Inc and Apple Inc.

"You can't afford not to be in the U.S.," said David Daoud, a PC industry analyst at market researcher IDC. "The best way to get into the U.S. is to have something unique, something different."

Taiwanese computer makers Asustek and Acer Inc are aggressively courting consumers in the United States through retail outlets such as Best Buy Co and online stores including newegg.com and TigerDirect.com.

The push comes as the U.S. lags the rest of the world in PC shipment growth. While Asian companies may have a tough time competing broadly in a saturated market, the laptop segment is still growing.

PC shipments increased 5.2 percent in the United States in the third quarter but were up 15.5 percent worldwide, with some of the fastest growth in the Asia-Pacific region.

Lenovo, the Chinese computer maker that bought International Business Machines Corp's PC business in 2005 will announce its entry into the U.S. consumer PC market at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the industry's largest U.S. trade show, in Las Vegas, during the second week of January.

In the U.S., Lenovo sells IBM's ThinkPad laptops to business customers but has not targeted U.S. consumers until now.

Meanwhile, Japan's Toshiba Corp, long a laptop leader in the U.S., continues to post healthy growth of nearly 17 percent, according to IDC's third-quarter report.

Toshiba ranks No. 4 in the U.S. behind Dell, HP and Apple. It plans to refresh its own line of high-end multimedia, tablet and ultra-thin notebook products at CES.

Asustek and Acer also plan to showcase new products at the event. Acer, the world's fourth-largest PC maker, sells through Wal-Mart Stores Inc and Office Depot Inc (ODP.N: Quote, Profile, Research), among various major U.S. retailers, and in October it bought Irvine, California-based Gateway Inc to expand in the United States.

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Even with advanced features and hip styling, Asian PC makers face tough competition from HP, Dell and Apple, who are marketing more innovative laptop computers. These machines include built-in gaming or video cameras as well as longer battery life and lighter-weight materials.

"They have to showcase their products as being some of the best, as opposed to being entry level," IDC's Daoud said. "The best way to do it is through niche and innovation and new products. Otherwise, forget it. The mass PC market is very tough."

Lenovo, Acer, and Asustek are pushing into the U.S. consumer market amid surging popularity of laptops, an area in which they have innovated more than some U.S. competitors such as Dell, which for years has focused more on selling desktop machines and business server computers to companies.

Lenovo, Asustek and others have declined to give details of the products to be unveiled at the Las Vegas show.

Asian companies already make most of the world's laptop computers on a contract basis, so expanding in the U.S. may be logical and cost effective, Daoud said. Taiwan's Quanta Computer Inc, for example, makes laptops for Dell, HP and Apple.

Asian PC makers also need to boost their brands in the U.S. to be considered global players.

"It's still the biggest market for technology," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at market researcher Enderle Group. "While China is the fastest-growing market, there's something to be said for being in the biggest."

Computer makers sold 37 percent more laptops in the third quarter, helping fuel projected 2007 worldwide PC shipment growth of 14.6 percent, according to IDC.

In the U.S., desktop PC shipments fell an estimated 3 percent in 2007, while notebooks surged an estimated 21 percent.

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HP today announced a major milestone in world class supercomputing working collaboratively with Computational Research Laboratories (CRL), a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Sons Ltd, India’s largest conglomerate. This flagship win has resulted in CRL building the 4th most powerful supercomputer in the world which is also the most powerful in Asia and Asia-Pacific.

Just imagine what scientists and engineers could do if they had the ability to perform 120 trillion floating point operations per second. This is now a viable reality at India's Computational Research Laboratories, thanks to new HP High-end compute building blocks used by CRL to build their supercomputer this month.

HP makes a foray in the retail photo printing market with the launch of 'HP Retail Photo Solutions'

INDIA, October 09, 2007 – Hewlett-Packard, today unveiled its strategy to revolutionize the digital photography market by announcing its entry into the retail photo printing market with the launch of HP Retail Photo Solutions. The company has also announced the much awaited launch of the world's No.1 consumer online photo service – HP Snapfish customized specially for the Indian market (www.snapfish.co.in).

In a move aimed at chipping away at Hewlett-Packard Co's dominance, Xerox Corp has launched a system promising to slash the cost of colour printing for high-volume users willing to pay more initially for machines.

Xerox introduced five printers, including the Phaser 8860 which features new solid-ink technology, saying the system puts the cost of colour pages on par with that of black-and-white.

Solid ink uses wax ink sticks rather than the cartridges of powdered toner found in laser printers. The process works like that of a high-end offset press to create richer colours, the company says, and has significantly fewer disposable parts, which leads to lower maintenance costs.

"If you compare HP colour toner to what our inks will be, we will be one-fifth the price. We think it's going to help us grow our market share and attract a lot of customers who maybe don't consider Xerox today," said Jim Rise, a Xerox vice president.

Experts say colour documents are seen as more effective in communications, but the cost of buying new colour printers, supplies and service contracts has been a barrier to adoption.

Xerox says the printers cut the cost of printing a colour page to about 5 cents a page, a fraction of rival systems, which analysts peg at between 8 cents and 13 cents a page.

Yet to stay profitable, the Xerox printers are priced higher. The strategy is similar to Eastman Kodak Co's consumer inkjet printers unveiled this year. Both represent a shift from the so-called razor/razor blade model -- selling hardware at little or no profit to encourage sales of more profitable replacement ink and toner.

At $2,500 to $4,000, the Phaser 8860 is roughly $1,000 more than other Xerox products with similar functions, said analyst Angela Boyd of research firm IDC. That may lead some potential buyers to think twice.

"It's targeted at the person who has made up their mind they want color. It's not for the person who is happy with their black-and-white laser machine," she says. "Eighty percent of the world is still buying black-and-white laser machines."

Investors looking for a spark

Xerox said its new solid-ink system, five years in the making, uses long-lasting crayon-like ink sticks. By increasing the total number of colour pages the ink sticks produce, Xerox says it has reduced the price of colour printing.

Printer makers for years have been promoting the move to colour printers, mostly by cutting prices. That has prompted printer makers to battle on the idea of lower cost-per-page, which would most benefit high-volume users.

Xerox's new systems are aimed at customers that print 2,000 to 10,000 pages a month, such as real estate offices or departments inside big corporations. They come at a time when investors are looking for a spark from Xerox, whose stock closed on Friday on the New York Stock Exchange at $17.02, one penny better than its closing level on Dec. 31, 2004.

Experts credit the company with impressive additions to its office line, solid profitability and improved market share. But analysts have been disappointed by tepid sales gains -- Xerox's revenue ended 2006 at $15.9 billion, up only about 3 percent from 2003. Analysts, on average, expect a 7 percent rise in 2007 annual revenue from 2006, according to Reuters Estimates.

The new system will not shift the balance of power, IDC's Boyd says. HP dominates the global office laser printer market with a 40 percent share, with Xerox at 10 percent, and Japan's Canon Inc at about 7 percent, she says.

"It puts Xerox in a good competitive situation among all the others chasing that juggernaut (HP)," she says. I don't think this is going to change things dramatically for Xerox. Xerox has been able to remain in the top tier of vendors and it will help them sustain behind HP."

Although one stop solution for an enterprise is much sought in the IT world, CIOs still have to wait for a long time before their dreams come true.

This is what IT heads came to know at the “Revenge of CIOs,” an event organized by CIOL as a part of its EnterpriseConnect Series, here on Wednesday.

A question posed by Sridhar S, Head- IT, Hutch, at the Q&A session, led to an interesting debate, and the venders said it would be ideal thing to think about an end-to-end solution for an enterprise as a whole.

“IT landscape is so complex in an enterprise that one stop solution to address the needs as a whole is difficult”, said Murali Krishna, Technical Head, HP Software.

“But through consolidation we can gain some grounds, and Business Service Management (BSM) is very much helpful,” he added.

While HP spoke about BSM, Riverbed, Datacraft and Wipro presented the case studies on WAN optimization, Intrusion detection and Business Continuity Planning respectively.

Pradeep Chakraborty, Executive Editor, CIOL moderated the discussion.

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NASSCOM the premier trade body and the “voice” of the Indian IT industry announced the finalists for the NASSCOM Innovation in Awards 2006. From a shortlist of eighteen companies, seven finalists will be felicitated and recognised for their outstanding contribution by Hon’ble Prime Minister of India Shri Manmohan Singh at the upcoming NASSCOM 2007 India Leadership Forum.

IT innovation is slowly gathering momentum in India. As global customers and giant ICT companies outsource their core product development and R&D work to the country and as its service providers make “out-of the-box” services a key differentiator, an ecosystem of innovation is getting built in India.

Hewlett-Packard (HP) has invented a revolutionary computer chip that uses nanotechnology to achieve a significant performance boost.

Researchers at the world's largest computer maker on Tuesday said that the new approach could allow an eightfold increase in the number of transistors that can be squeezed onto a variety of programmable chips, while bringing savings in energy consumption.

The new technology works by using a grid of nanowires to connect conventional integrated circuits chips known as FPGAs, or field programmable gate arrays, the Silicon Valley company said in a statement.

The Government of Karnataka and Hewlett-Packard India today announced a collaboration to provide a unified online e-Procurement platform for Government of Karnataka and signed the agreement.

While Mr. Rajeev Chawla, Secretary e-Governance signed on behalf of the State Government, Mr Biswanth Bhattacharya, Director, Public Sector, HP India was the signatory from the side of HP India sales Pvt Ltd.

Government of Karnataka (GoK) has taken up various e-Governance initiatives including Bhoomi, Kaveri, Khajane, Bangalore One, Nemmadi, Human Resources Management System (HRMS), Computerization of Commercial tax and Computerization of RTO offices etc.

As a further step in this direction, a common e-Procurement Platform for the State is being set up. The e-Procurement platform would facilitate, in an online electronic manner, the Government procurement activities such as, publishing of tenders/RFP, bidding online, empanelment of suppliers/contractors, contract management, demand aggregation etc., at a minimum effort. The platform would cover activities for the procurement of goods, works as well as services.

The e-Procurement platform would run on a Public Private Partnership (PPP) model. Hewlett-Packard India Sales Pvt. Ltd has been selected as the Private partner for setting up of the single unified e-Procurement platform for the State. The Centre for e-Governance, which would be the Implementing agency for the e-Procurement project is a registered society established under the e-Governance Secretariat, DPAR (AR), for implementation of various e-Governance initiatives in the state. The Government has also constituted an e-Procurement cell, which is housed in the Centre for e-Governance and will act as a nodal agency for coordinating and administering the implementation of e-Procurement across multiple departments in the State.

Speaking on the occasion, Dr.Malati Das, Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka said “The e-Procurement Project will enhance the efficiency and transparency in public procurement through the automation and Government process reengineering. The system shall enable Government maintain a clear picture of its procurement activities on a real-time basis. By engaging in e-Procurement the government catalyzes the supplier community to be more efficient.”

The implementation of e-Procurement Project would be taken up in two phases; The Pilot Phase & the Roll-out Phase

In the pilot phase the Partner is required to successfully deploy the e-Procurement system and handle live transactions through them on a test basis in selected departments/ Organisations. The pilot phase would lay the foundation for rolling out the system across the State. The Project would cover all departments, PSUs and other organizations of Government in a gradual manner.

Mr.Balu Doraisamy, Managing Director, HP India Sales Pvt Ltd., said, “HP India is happy to partner with the Government of Karnataka to successfully roll out the state’s e-procurement initiative. This project is a major milestone in the e-Governance space, and a significant example of Public Private Partnership (PPP) success. As the leading end-to-end technology solutions provider HP’s solution portfolio includes comprehensive offerings for e-Governance and public sector.”