Hewlett-Packard to double Taiwan headcount
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Hewlett-Packard Co , the world&#39;s  largest personal computer maker, said on Wednesday it will  double its Taiwan headcount between now and 2009 as part of its  strategy to expand its product development on the island.
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November 24, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Technology giant HP  announced on Tuesday it led the competition in worldwide server shipments for the 10th consecutive quarter, according to third quarter 2004 figures released by IDC.
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Hewlett-Packard Co. , the world's number-two PC maker, said on Friday it has launched a 3,999 yuan (&#36;483) computer in China, turning up the heat in the intensely competitive market.
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Taiwan's telecommunications industry will need another two years before third-generation mobile services generate substantial revenue, according to Harvey Chang, president and CEO of Taiwan Cellular, the island's second-largest mobile phone operator.
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(InfoWorld) - Hewlett-PackardÂ introduced an entry-level rack server in India on Thursday, part of its strategy to design lower-cost servers specifically for Asian countries. Asia has high growth markets like China and India, but the needs and usage models of customers there are different from those elsewhere in the world, Paul Miller, HPâs vice president of marketing for Industry Standard Servers (ISS) and BladeSystems, told reporters in Bangalore on Thursday. A large proportion of customers in Asia, including smaller businesses, don't need all the features included with HP servers sold in other regions, said Tony Parkinson, HPâs vice president and general manager for ISS in the Asia Pacific. âCustomers in Asia want a âgood enoughâ product which is reliable, good quality, good brand, and not very expensiveâ, he said. The new server, the ProLiant DL180, is based on Dual Core and Quad-Core Xeon processors from Intel and priced from 100,000 Indian rupees, or about $2,500. HP said the servers will help Asian businesses to migrate from tower servers to rack servers, by offering the efficiency of a rack server and the economics of a tower server. Users in Asia often stuff tower servers into racks because of space constraints, but have not migrated to rack servers because of their higher costs, Miller said. Some of the features and components, included as standard on similar HP rack servers, are offered as options on the DL180 to drive down costs, said Kevin Van Mondfrans, HPâs manager of product marketing for ISS. For example, while Asian customers want basic management capabilities, they don't see a need for the more sophisticated management software typically offered on these servers, he said. Usage models also differ in Asia, according to HP. The DL180 is likely to be used as a standalone storage server in Asia, while customers in the U.S. tend to use such systems as part of a storage area network (SAN), Parkinson said. The products for Asia are being designed at an HP ProLiant design center in Taiwan. Asia is the only region the company is designing special products for, Miller said. However, some of the products for Asia may be offered later in other developing markets, such as Latin America and Russia, he said. The ProLiant ML115, introduced in March as a tower server at the cost of a desktop, was designed for Asia but eventually introduced in other parts of the world. HP will offer customers in Asia a mix of Asia-specific products and standard products, as some Asian customers, such as large enterprises, want the full-featured products, Parkinson said. He did not say how many more servers HP is designing exclusively for the region.
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Hewlett-Packard Co. HPQ.N will be  under pressure to sell its personal computer business after  IBM's decision to sell its PC operations to China's top PC  manufacturer, but analysts said the No. 2 computer maker would  hold on to its $25 billion PC division for now.
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Hewlett-Packard&#39;s outsourcing business has scored an extended contract with Unilever worth $675 million, HP said Wednesday.The seven-year deal will see HP managing Unilever&#39;s IT infrastructure in the Americas, Asia, Africa, Turkey and the Middle East, handling day-to-day operations, implementing new applications, working with technology partners and managing third-party contracts, according to a news release.About 250 Unliever workers will be transferred to HP under the contract&#39;s terms, the release said.Neil Cameron, chief information officer for Unilever, said in a statement that the agreement is &quot;a natural extension&quot; of the companies&#39; existing relationship. &quot;The intention between both parties is to leverage HP&#39;s scale, expertise and industry leadership to ensure Unilever has access to world-class technology at substantially lower costs,&quot; the statement added.Unilever, a manufacturer of consumer goods, has roughly 179,000 employees in nearly 100 countries. It logged &#8364;40 billion ($58 billion) in sales during 2007, according to the release.
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Dutch electronics firm Philips said on Wednesday it plans to almost double its research and development staff in China to 1,300 over the next 2 years, underscoring the country&#39;s growing clout as a technology center.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan personal computer vendor Acer Inc. expects its computer shipments to increase 30-40 percent this year, a reduction from previous sales forecasts.
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Hewlett-Packard is setting up a second computer manufacturing facility in India to help it meet surging demand in the country.
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Chinese companies will be welcome to exhibit at Taiwan's annual Computex IT next year, the show's organizers said Saturday. The announcement came as organizers revealed a 10 percent increase in the number of foreign visitors at this year's show compared to last year.
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Taiwan plans to spend 84 million Taiwan dollars (2.46 million US dollar) on a campaign to encourage couples to have more children after the island's birth rate hit a record low in 2003, officials said.
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The number of personal computers worldwide is expected to double by 2010 to 1.3 billion machines, according to a report by analysts Forrester Research.
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Hewlett-Packard Co. , the  world's No. 2 personal computer maker, reported on Wednesday a  forecast-beating profit on sales growth across its main  divisions and unveiled a record $6 billion share buyback.
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Hewlett-Packard and Taiwanese WiMax service provider Global Mobile on Monday showed off a mobile WiMax station for use in hospitals, complete with a laptop PC, monitor, and other gear.HP wrote software for the mobile hospital station and is working with Taipei&#39;s Tri-Services General Hospital to explore further uses for the device. The station is designed for use by nurses, doctors, and other attendants as they admit new patients and do rounds, to gather information electronically and transmit records instantly to a central database over a WiMax wireless broadband network.Hardware from any PC company can be used for the base station itself, said Mingpey Chou, a manager at HP-Taiwan. HP created the software and has put together the hardware for the mobile WiMax station at a cost of around $5,000 each, she said.Once HP, Global Mobile, and Tri-Services Hospital figure out more ways for the mobile WiMax station to be used in medical care, it will be sold to other hospitals in Taiwan, Chou said. There are no plans currently to export the device to the U.S. or other countries.The concept, design, and software of the mobile station were all created in Taiwan, she said.
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Taiwan capital says network will reach 90% of population of 3M, will charge users for access. TAIPEI  - Taipei plans to make wireless Internet access available across the Taiwan capital by the end
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(InfoWorld) - Number two storage systems maker Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) has closed the gap between it and number one EMC Corp. to what research company IDC calls "a statistical tie." But EMC argues its lead over HP is greater if co-branded Dell-EMC storage devices are counted as EMC sales instead of as Dell Inc. sales. According to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Tracker, EMC Corp. held an industry-leading 20 percent market share for external disk storage systems in the second quarter of 2006, followed by HP with a 19.3 percent share. EMC had a 21 percent share to HP's 18.9 percent in the second quarter of 2005. In the latest results, IBM Corp earned third place with a 13.2 percent share, while Hitachi Data Systems Corp., Dell Inc. and Sun Microsystems Inc. recorded market share of between 7 percent and 8 percent, which IDC labeled a three-way tie. IDC considers companies to be tied for market share if the difference between them is less than 1 percentage point, said Brad Nisbet, program manager for IDC Storage Systems. The second quarter figures show a tight race between EMC and HP, but EMC spokesman Greg Eden said EMC is further ahead than those numbers suggest. The market share numbers don't count storage devices that EMC manufactures for Dell. They are co-branded as Dell/EMC storage but counted as Dell sales revenue, he said. If Dell/EMC sales were counted as EMC revenue, the company's second quarter market share would be 26.1 percent, Eden said. IDC confirmed that number. However, EMC stumbled in the second quarter when inventory problems prevented it from fulfilling orders for some of its Symmetrix DMX3 high-end and Clarion CX3 midrange storage models. "We had double-digit growth in our bookings for our storage," Eden said, but customers wanted the newer models and were not content to buy the older ones. Manufacturers with the strongest second-quarter percentage growth from a year earlier were Sun Microsystems Inc. (19.1 percent), Hitachi (17 percent) and HP (10.3 percent.). "HP has been executing well under new management," Nisbet said, referring to President and Chief Executive Officer Mark Hurd, who replaced Carly Fiorina in March 2005. HP's storage revenue grew by 22 percent in Western Europe in the quarter, he said. Sun reported the strongest quarterly jump due in part to its acquisition of storage vendor StorageTek in 2005 and the development of the first StorageTek disk storage products, Nisbet said, while Hitachi recorded strong sales of its high-end storage products. IDC said the second quarter, which ended June 30, was the 13th consecutive quarter of revenue growth for the external disk storage sector. Revenue rose 8.5 percent to US$4.2 billion, from $3.8 billion a year earlier. Storage demand is growing as enterprises generate more data they have to manage and archive, he said. "Storage continues to be an integral component of a full (IT) solution," Nisbet said.