Hewlett-Packard has sent a letter to Oracle on Wednesday threatening legal action if it does not go back on its decision to stop software development for Itanium hardware.

HP said that it did not make the letter public because of some of the confidential information it contained but affirmed that it will make Oracle honor its commitment to HP and customers.

According to latest reports, HP's TouchPad tablet will be released on June 22. HP had only said that the tablet will be launched in ‘"late June" this year but since then has not released any details about the launch.

Synnex, an IT equipment company, kicked started the rumor as it listed WebOS-based tablet with a 6/22 date. Meanwhile, Amazon's TouchPad product page does not feature any release data information.

Hewlett-Packard has released its new Pavilion desktop PCs indicating that the era of the PCs are not over yet and the biggest PC maker in the world is still seriously working on developing new models.

The new models provide workers and consumers the power they expect from a desktop as well as design cues and slimmer form factor found on latest devices such as laptops and tablet computers. The new models have “clean lines, soft forms and contrasting materials” and shows that HP is playing a lot of attention to designs of the PCs.

Third quarter ended December 2010 registered HP on the top position. Technology giant Hewlett Packard (HP) had gained market share of 17.3% in terms of sales. Dell was put out of the place with 14.2% share and Acer holding the third position with 11.5%.

After slipping from last two quarters in Indian PC market HP regained its number one position in the third quarter including both notebooks and desktops.

Oracle Corp has offered its president's position to Mark Hurd.

Mark Hurd is the former chief Executive of technology giant Hwelett-Packard's (HP). Last month, he has been asked to abandon the HP in the wake of charges of sexual harassment.

In addition to the president's position, Oracle also selected Mr. Hurd as a director on the company's board.

Hewlett-Packard (HP) position of the number one seller of personal computers (PCs) in India has been beaten by US Laptop major-Dell for the first time.

As per the latest reports by IDC India quarterly PC tracker, the overall PC market in India grew 34 per cent year-on-year in the quarter ending June. The PC sales primarily include of laptops and notebooks.

HP that has a long track record of dominating the Indian market for over six years recorded a market share of 14.3 per cent while Dell managed to grab a market share of 15.2 per cent in the second quarter (April-June) of 2010.

An Indian origin Scientist working in HP computers, Vinay Deolalikar claimed that he has successfully solved P vs NP problem. The P vs NP problem has been graded in the list of the world's most difficult problems and a cash price of $1 million dollar is associated with its solution, so if someone proves P vs NP problem practically, he will be honored with a cash price of $ 1 million.

A math issue with a $1m reward money linked to it and one which has major propositions in computing applications, as safety measures and artificial intelligence, is declared to have been cracked by an Indian doing job in the US.

Vinay Deolalikar, a scientist at HP Labs in California, has projected a resolution to the issue, usually coined by mathematicians as 'Is P=NP?' in a thesis he has made available online. The trouble is one of the 7 programmed by the Clay Mathematics Institute for the Millennium award valued $1M, which will be gifted to the victorious solver of every mathematical issue.

Financial calculations have shown that the settlement between Hewlett-Packard Co. and the US government is going to cost the IT Company dearly.

The fall is going to be in the range of 2 cents per share of the company during the third quarter of this year.

The settlement was done so as to resolve allegations that HP had followed illegal methods for gaining contracts. These were all related to government dealings and were filed by Norman Rille.

HP supposedly has named PalmPad as its next name for the upcoming WebOS family of devices, according to a recent trademark company USPTO.

It was further added that the domain name PalmPad has been registered to a "palm pad online services" in Costa Rica, Central America since April 2001 and will not expire till April 2012.

The recent most circulating rumor claims that HP has trashed its plans to develop its Android Tablet and instead plans to move the resources towards its WebOS tablets.

According to the reports of AllThingsDigital sources report that HP's Android Slate has been put on hold and won't be arriving on the earlier mentioned schedule, instead will be shipped before the end of the year.

This indicates that the tablet is postponed or even likely has been scrapped.

This joins the news with LG that claims of losing out of Windows 7 tablet in regard of an Android model.

Recently at the HP ISV Summit 2010 conducted on July 15 2010, HP felicitated the disaster recovery management company- Sanovi Technologies for its outstanding contribution in revenues and expansion of HP solution.

Sanovi is an 'HP Alliance one partner' and has been acknowledged as one of the top 5 ISV from total of 125 HP ISV's in the country at summit that entered its second year in India.

P.P.Subramanian, CEO, Sanovi Technologies commented on receiving the award about their plans to expand market reach by offering innovative products.

Hewlett-Packard (HP) has claimed of bringing in the latest cloud-based solutions for small and medium businesses (SMBs) in case of verticals such as retail, healthcare and education verticals in India.

The Economic Times reports that the company that recently acquired Palm has joined hands with approximately 150 Indian software firms to offer solutions and at the same time claims of developing around 8 to 10 applications.

It will lay off 9,000 workers over a multiyear period while moving toward automation at its commercial data centers, U. S. technology giant has said Hewlett Packard.

It would spend $1 billion upgrading its information technology centers and phase out the jobs as the new systems go on line, the company further said.

Tom Iannotti, senior vice president and general manager of HP Enterprise Services, said, "Over the past 20 months, we focused on integrating Electronic Data Systems and improving profitability."

HP Mini 210 is a netbook that promises performance on-the-go without forgetting the essence of style.

This trendsetting HP’s Imprint Finish netbook is a promising small PC that comes with a93% full size keyboard and 25.7 cm (10.1) diagonal screen plus built-in wireless LAN, to keep you connected.

It serves as an entertainment device too with its in-built portable entertainment centre one can stay tuned with friends via sharing videos and digital audios, or chatting through webcam.

Sify Technologies has formed a joint venture with HP. This venture would take care of Sify's On-Demand cloud services through its partner's converged infrastructure. Aiming to provide flexibility and thus, a better mode of computing services this deal has been closed upon, stated an official from Sify.

Hewlett-Packard, s recent acquisition of Palm was not an easy affair as they had to fight four other bidders to obtain Palm.

Rumors claim that Palm had 16 companies in stock for its take. The closest ones that reached near to the acquisition were HP and Lenovo. Three other biggies involved were Dell, Huawei and HTC - who wished to take Palm patents, including the webOS.

The current gossip circulating in the air is that of HP Hurricane, the WebOS which was supposedly made to run on Slate tablet.

Internal sources confirm that HP Hurricane tablet will be introduced in the third quarter of this year and this was further corroborated when HP bought Palm. The HP-Palm deal that closes on July 31 might officially state this matter, say the trade pundits.

The news of Slate's dumping has led the trade analysts to ponder up on which processor is to be used instead of the Intel Atom processor.

Intel may supposedly launch the versions for its HP envy enabling them with the Core i5 and Core i3 ULV CPUs.

It is believed that Hewlett-Packard reports reveal that the three new standard-voltage Core 2010 chips in the service manuals for the Envy models i. e., the HP Envy 17 and Envy 15 gaming laptops have been shot and they are believed to sport the i5 processor.

HP has proclaimed its latest in its family of notebooks, the HP Pavilion DM3-1112SA.

It is a less than 2 kg weighing device that comes with a 13.3 inch screen and is less than 2.5 cm thick, ensuring a battery life of up to 5.5 hours. It runs on Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium, is powered by AMD Athlon Neo X2 Dual-Core Processor specially designed for Ultrathin Notebooks L335, backed up by 2 GB DDR RAM, has 250GB hard disk drive, Bluetooth and a 6-cell battery.