Hewlett-Packard’s (HPQ) fourth-quarter earnings reflect its continued effort to expand through acquisition and deliver end-to-end data services.The company is scheduled to release earnings Monday after the market close. A conference call will be held at 5 p.m. Eastern Time.In a pre-announcement Hewlett-Packard said it expects to earn $0.99 a share compared with a profit of $0.84 for the same period a year ago. Excluding one-time charges the company said it would have earned $1.14 a share or $0.01 above the consensus estimate.Earlier this month Hewlett-Packard said it had agreed to buy 3Com (COMS) a networking equipment maker for $2.7 ...
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IBM announced Tuesday that its free Lotus Symphony office productivity suite is now available on Keepods -- thin USB devices made by the Italian company NSEC.
Big Blue's Symphony suite is based on OpenOffice.org and includes word processing, spreadsheets, and presentation creation. The new Keepod version, available through the Keepod store, employs VMware's ThinApp virtualization software, which wraps applications into an executable file that is isolated from a computer's operating system, mitigating compatibility and security concerns.
IBM has set up a center in Bangalore that will focus on offering high-end expertise to the business analytics market worldwide.
The center, called the Business Analytics Center of Competency, will have over 200 consultants in the area of business analytics who will interact with customers worldwide, said Simon Thomas, service line leader at IBM India for the global delivery of business analytics and optimization services.
IBM announced on Thursday beta versions of new services aimed at developers who want to create and deploy applications on public and private clouds.
Like other vendors, such as Skytap, IBM is pushing cloud services as a way for programmers to get access to computing power quickly, something that can be difficult if many in-house projects are occurring and on-site computing resources are scarce. With the Smart Business Development and Test service, which runs on IBM's public cloud, developers can get a working environment in minutes, according to the vendor.
IBM on Wednesday will announce integrations between its Rational and Tivoli product lines that enable users to automate processes across development, testing, and operations teams.
