HP builds inkjet R&#38;D centre in Ireland
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Hewlett-Packard is to invest 21.4min a technology development centre in Leixlip, to develop new inkjet printer technologies.
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Leading Web search engine Google Inc. opened its European headquarters in Dublin, the California-based company's first international centre outside the United States.
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The company splashes a new name on the inks to be used in its photo printers.
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Hewlett-Packard (HP) has reported better than expected quarterly results helped by strong international sales.
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HP, at its Technology Forum in Las Vegas, said it is developing storage technology that more accurately assigns storage capacity as needed in an enterprise.
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(InfoWorld) - Hewlett-PackardÂ has developed technology at its lab in Bangalore, India,Â that secures paper documents against fraud and integrates paper documents with electronic processes by allowing paper to be used as a medium for data transfer. Paper documents will never go away, and this is not unique to India, said S. Ramani, director for science and technology, at HP Labs India on Thursday. The requirement to authenticate paper documents can hamper the velocity of business, Ramani said. Very often a paper document, like a college transcript or a driving license, has to be sent back to the issuing authority for authentication or to ensure that there has been no change in status after the document was issued, he added. HP Labs India has instead developed technology it calls Trusted Hardcopy that embeds information contained in the paper document in a 2D (two-dimensional) barcode printed at the back of the paper document. Using software developed by the lab, the barcode can be read by a standard scanner, and the information verified online on a Web site set up by the authority issuing the paper document, or an independent verification agency. In a pilot program that HP Labs India is running with the International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore (IIIT-B) students graduating from the institute were issued transcripts with the barcodes printed on them. âOur software is integrated with the database, so that whenever a mark sheet is printed from the database, the software issues a barcode which is inserted into it,â said K.S.R. Anjaneyulu, department director at the lab. The certificates issued by IIIT-B can be now scanned and verified for their authenticity on an institute Web site. If the document or the barcode has been tampered with, this will be revealed when it is compared with the document stored on the instituteâs database, Ramani said. Using the 2D barcode also removes the need to manually input the data from paper documents into an electronic system, as the data can be read from the barcode printed on the paper. âBy embedding the information from the paper document in the barcode, we are preventing information in paper documents from getting disconnected from the rest of the system,â Anjaneyulu said. The new technology is effectively ânetworking the paper world," he added. The technology can also be used by agencies like the government to issue authenticated documents online. The document with the barcode can be then printed by the person requesting the document, Ramani said. HPâs business units are interested in commercializing Trusted Hardcopy, Ramani said. HP Labs India is also working on new applications of the technology such as using mobile phones with built-in cameras to take a snap of a barcode, for example on a driver's license, and transmitting the image on the mobile service channel for verification and updating. As part of HP Labs India's research in the area of pen-based interfaces, the lab has developed a stylus sensitive touch-pad, called the âgesture-based keyboard,â that enables users to enter text in the Devnagri script used in many Indian languages, using a combination of tapping and gestures.
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Keeps staff costs low, automated, even Microsoft is shelling out $500m on a new European data centre in Ireland to support its growing online business.â¦
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Printer maker Hewlett-Packard Co. said on Tuesday it had resolved a patent dispute with China's Ninestar, which HP said had agreed to stop selling ink cartridges related to the dispute in the United States and some other countries.
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Hewlett-Packard will introduce Print 2.0, the companyâs strategy for making printing relevant in an increasingly Web-centric world.
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Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) has begun shipping a new product that the company thinks will give it an edge over rival IBM Corp. in the market for blade servers.
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Now it's not just HP's prices that'll get under your skin HP has come up with a new use for its inkjet technology: you can use it to give people inkjections (see what we did there?).â¦
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(InfoWorld) - The $100 millionÂ datacenter consolidation projectÂ being undertaken by Hewlett-Packard will help it be more efficient but also informs the consulting advice it gives to client companies. HP officials updated customers, employees and partners on the progress of its project Tuesday at the HP Technology Forum being held in Las Vegas. The company is in the second year of a three-year process to consolidate 85 datacenters worldwide in just six -- two each in Atlanta, Houston, and Austin, Texas. Three of the six new sites are already up and running and the remaining three should be completed within 60 days, said Randy Mott, executive vice president and chief information officer of HP. "It's not just around moving stuff to a different place," said Mott, in a clear case of understatement. Data center consolidation gives HP, and any company that does it, a chance to refresh their technology, move to industry standard products, eliminate redundant or outdated hardware and software, and engineer energy efficiency, a major concern of late, into the datacenter. At the Tech Forum, Mott said the data center project, which is scheduled to be completed in late 2008, will reduce the total number of servers by 30 percent, but increase the total processing power by 80 percent. It will reduce the cost of storage but double total storage capacity, and the cost of running HP's corporate network will go down but the bandwidth will be tripled. HP has already decommissioned 12 of the 86 datacenters, said Mott. And for HP, going through the process gives its HP Services group new insights they can apply to customers trying to upgrade their data centers. "We try make sure it's done right inside HP and then we can do that for customers," said Tony Redmond, vice president and chief technology officer for HP Services. Teams from HP's IT department, which handles the company's own IT systems, and from the HP Technology Services unit, which provides technology to client firms, work together on the datacenter project. Work the HP Services people do will help the Technology Services people advise their own clients, Redmond said. HP's technology infrastructure developed in a piecemeal fashion, just like that of many other companies. For instance, part of the project involves what companies call "software rationalization," going through the thousands of software applications that HP uses to weed out those that are redundant, outdated or just useless. HP applications may be duplicated by similar applications from Compaq Computer, which HP acquired in 2002 and Digital Equipment, which Compaq bought in 1998. HP is also going to deploy a new approach to cooling at the new datacenters. Called Dynamic Smart Cooling, it involves a number of heat sensors attached to each of the servers in a datacenter. The sensors can tell when a server is heating up because it's doing a lot of processing and then directs cold air at that server. When the server slows down, the sensor can tell and the cold air reduced. Dynamic Smart Cooling, developed within HP Labs, will demonstrate at HP's own datacenters how the technology may work for others.
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(InfoWorld) - IBM launched its European Venture Capital Center in Dublin, the first such center outside of the company's corporate offices in Menlo Park, California. The center will be a place where IBM helps unite European startup companies with venture-capital firms and also where IBM can share some of its experiences with startups. Often small companies have found investors but lack the expertise to globalize and scale their offerings, said Nick Donofrio, IBM's executive vice president for innovation and technology, speaking during a press conference in Dublin. "We have those skills," he said. IBM will share such expertise with startups that participate in the center through events including subject-specific round tables or large conferences, such as one that IBM held in New York last week. Encouraging the success of emerging businesses ensures that IBM has strong partners to add to its ecosystem into the future, he said. IBM does not intend to invest in any of the participating companies directly but could in rare cases consider buying a company that might be developing technology fundamental to IBM's business, Donofrio said. IBM chose to place the center in Ireland in part due to its 50 year history in the country but also because of other factors that make it an ideal location. Ireland has a strong academic environment, government support for emerging technology companies, a culture of entrepreneurship and a presence of many global companies, said Deborah Magid, director of strategic alliances, software strategy for IBM Venture Capital Group. She couldn't say how many people the new center might employ but added that existing IBM staff would likely contribute to the center's efforts. IBM is alsoÂ opening an Innovation CenterÂ in Dublin, aimed at helping local software developers test and build products. In July,Â IBM said it was investingÂ â¬46 million ($59 million) and hiring 300 workers in Dublin. The new Venture Capital Center and Innovation Center are part of that ongoing investment. Â ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.
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Solid growth across the computer and printer maker's businesses spur rise, HP says.
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By Jordan Robertson Associated Press  SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Hewlett-Packard Co.
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Company adds new level of convenience to home and office printing with wireless printer adapter and multifunction inkjet product.
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HP (NYSE:HPQ) (Nasdaq:HPQ) today unveiled large-format printing technologies that offer commercial printers more choices and value when producing wide- and super-wide outdoor graphics.