HP unveils cavalcade of consumer products
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MacCentral - Hewlett-Packard Co. is unveiling a broad new line of consumer electronics products and peripherals, including its first plasma and LCD TVs, new inks that purportedly print long-lasting photos, new paper, a clutch of printers and multifunction devices, and a home theater projector with an integrated DVD player.
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Hewlett-Packard Co. HPQ.N on Friday will unveil a range of products including its version of the iPod digital music player that raises the stakes in a war between
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By MAY WONG    SAN JOSE, Calif.  -- Personal computer giant Hewlett-Packard Co...
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(InfoWorld) - Hewlett-PackardÂ (HP) Â introduced its revamped print strategy on Tuesday in an effort to bolster the company's lucrative printing business by giving users creative tools and Web-linked capabilities. The product rollout included consumer printers, office printers for SMBs, and the Designjet T1100 MFP for graphic arts professionals. At the high end, HP introduced the Scitex XL2200 Industrial Wide-Format Printer for high-volume commercial printing businesses. HP is also offering a range of software tools for digital content creation and for printing content directly from the Web. The products all aim to give users more creativity in sharing and publishing content, said the executive vice president of HP's imaging and printing group, Vyomesh Joshi, during a press conference in New York. In the past, most users stored content on their PCs and used printers to generate copies of photos and documents. But for customers who now archive their photos online, HP has the Tabblo Print Toolkit software that lets users of the Flickr photo Web site create personalized albums by combining photos and text. Other products include templates for printing business cards and letterhead, and -- coming in October -- a tool called HP Print Studio that will provide free designs for creating greeting cards and party invitations. HP also announced wiki sites for consumers and small businesses. The company is launching these services in an effort to slow a steep decline in printer sales throughout the industry, one analyst said. Printer vendors make nearly all their profit through sales of ink and other consumables, so they need to preserve hardware sales to ensure that demand continues, said Ian Hamilton, an analyst with Current Analysis West. "They're in a situation where they need to find ways to make their customers print more. If you see what's going on in the industry, there are pretty massive declines in the single-function ink sector, and as a whole, the industry is having a lot of struggle," Hamilton said. Printer demand has been shrinking fast in recent years across most sectors. The growth of global unit shipments of inkjet MFPs (multifunction printers) has slowed from 35.3 percent in 2004 to 30.5 percent in 2005 and 19.2 percent in 2006, according to figures from IDC. Sales of laser MFPs and laser single-function printers showed similar trends, while single-function inkjet printers have suffered worst of all with annual global shipments shrinking by 8.4 percent in 2004, 9.6 percent in 2005 and 21.6 percent in 2006, IDC said. That slump has also put a dent in HP's earnings, asÂ the company reported on Aug. 16 that its imaging and printing group had slower growth than any other corporate division, rising 8 percent year-over-year with revenue of $6.7 billion for the third quarter. In comparison, the revenue for HP's software group grew by 74 percent over the same period, and the personal systems group, the division that sells PCs, grew by 29 percent. Despite sluggish growth, the printer division is crucial for HP's financial success. The division generated 26.6 percent of HP's total quarterly revenue of $25.4 billion for the quarter, more than any other segment except the PC group.
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Hewlett-Packard is beefing up its Integrity BladeSystems with a new model released this week thatâs intended to handle memory and CPU intensive applications.
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At its annual HP World user conference in Chicago this week, Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) will announce a number of enhancements to its HP-UX operating system, designed to narrow the gap between the capabilities of the company's Integrity and HP 9000 servers.
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Hewlett-Packard Co., one of the top private employers in Greater Sacramento, on Friday rolled out an array of new products to expand into consumer digital-entertainment and digital-photography categories, including a home theater computer and its own
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Get a close-up look at Microsoft's new consumer server.
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Blog: HP releases a bunch of new printers for home and office users.
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By MATTHEW FORDAHL     SAN JOSE, Calif.  -- New software at Hewlett-Packard Co...
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Hewlett-Packard showed off 14 new imaging and printing products during an event in Frankfurt, Germany this week. HP executives showcased the HP LaserJet 4345mfp multifunction copier, which they say can crank
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InfoWorld - Hewlett-Packard has begun shipping a new product that the company thinks will give it an edge over rival IBM&#160;in the market for blade servers.
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Tech giant Hewlett-Packard unveiled its own branded iPod music player as in introduced a revamped lineup of ditigal consumer products.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Hewlett-Packard Co. yesterday launched a line of powerful computers aimed squarely at gamers, in the company's latest step to court a small-but-influential audience.
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While Apple is cruising along, other computer outfits are frantically trying to crack the consumer-electronics nut. Dell (DELL ), Hewlett-Packard (HPQ ) and, yes, even Gateway (GTW ) are all pushing new products
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Hewlett-Packard will introduce a new device this fall meant to record and play back television as well as organize digital media.
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HP has unveiled a new multimedia laptop, the HP Pavilion HDX, that offers high-definition capabilities, including a 20.1-in. screen.