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Android 4.0 ported to HP TouchPad

十二月 31, 2011
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Android 4.0 ported to HP TouchPad

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Sylvie Barak   12/9/2011 11:05 PM EST

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–Developers attempting to port the latest version of Android to Hewlett Packard’s discontinued TouchPad tablet appear to have made a breakthrough, withone team member posting a photo of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich running on his personal device.
After HP announced the discontinuation of the tablet this summer, the firm sold off its remaining stock in a fire sale which saw prices reduced to $99, prompting many a tinkerer to buy a tablet with the hopes of converting it into a cheap Android device.
Results have been buggy and mixed, but thus far, hackers have managed to get CyanogenMod 7 Alphas one through three up and running on the TouchPad, despite several ongoing issues with audio and Wi-Fi.
The latest version, which attempts to port Android 4.0 to the tablet, is not yet as stable as previous Alpha builds, but is already generating excitement and interest on tech forums.

A patch for making touch input work on the tablet has already been proffered by the community, with the next priorities for the build including Wi-Fi and Android Market support.
While developers scramble to fix the bugs in the TouchPad Android builds, however, today’s announcement by HP that it would be open sourcing its WebOS software has led to a surprise reverse phenomenon of developers now hoping to port the operating system to Android devices.
Despite its innovative UI and multitasking capabilities, WebOS had previously failed to capture the attention of the mobile industry, making up just 2% of U.S. smartphone market share. Putting it out into the open, however, seems to already be generating interest and giving traction to the software.
HP has not yet said when the WebOS code will be made available, but hackers over on XDA forums are already making plans for projects to port it to numerous devices, including the upcoming Galaxy Nexus.
“Now that the source code is set to be released, the real fun can begin,” said a post on XDA. “Imagine an HTC HD2 capable of running 6 mobile OSes.

With full access to the WebOS source code, developers can now make this happen,” the post said.
Some are even starting to conceptualize a completely tailor made OS, with complete, source-built modification like CyanogenMod. With WebOS now open, it would appear the possibilities are endless.

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HP to offer WebOS as open source

十二月 16, 2011
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HP to offer WebOS as open source

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Posted:12 Dec 2011

Without a buyer for its WebOS mobile operating system, Hewlett-Packard Co. has announced it will contribute the software to the open source community. The company has even created an online site to take comments on its plans.

HP will "continue to be active in the development and support of WebOS," the company said in a brief statement. However, HP made no commitments to use the code in any of its products.

HP said it will make the underlying code of WebOS available under an open source license but did not say which one. It will also make the WebOS application framework, Enyo, available as open source "in the near future along with other components of the user space," HP said.

In addition, HP said it will engage the open source community to help define the charter of the open source project under a set of operating principles. They include accelerating open development on the software, providing transparent governance to prevent fragmentation and making HP and active "participant and investor in the project."

In a separate FAQ, HP was non-commital about any future WebOS products.

"As WebOS gains traction as an open source alternative in the marketplace, you could see webOS on several different types of devices by any number of vendors," it said. "We will explore the viability of putting webOS on devices, just as we do for other leading operating systems." it added.

The news suggests HP was unable to find a buyer for WebOS. Amazon was rumored to be one propsective purchaser for its future Kindle devices. However, having already created a variant of Android for the Kindle Fire the rumor seemed implausible.

The news also suggests HP has yet to work out a number of details including the nature of any open WebOS group, HP’s role in it and the exact terms of WebOS licenses.

Continued uncertainty in such details—and the lack of shipping products—could serve to further undermine interest in the mobile OS. Without a solid standard bearer using the software and managing its road map, it’s unlikely WebOS can gain enough market traction or stay technically relevant enough to catch up with its major alternatives such as Android and other mobile Linux variants.

WebOS was based heavily on HTML5, aiming to get a leap on competitors and promise greater applications portability.

"WebOS is the only platform designed from the ground up to be mobile, cloud-connected and scalable," said Meg Whitman, HP president and chief executive officer, in a prepared statement. "By contributing this innovation, HP unleashes the creativity of the open source community to advance a new generation of applications and devices," she said but declined to announce any support for the OS in HP products.

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HP to develop unified UNIX-x86 platform

十二月 1, 2011
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HP to develop unified UNIX-x86 platform

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Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) has announced a project that aims to take the future of mission-critical computing a notch up with a development roadmap.

The project ‘Odyssey’ will unify UNIX and x86 serverarchitectures to bring a higher level of availability and performance, and uncompromising client choice in a single platform, stated HP.

Organizations are challenged with increasingly stringent service-level agreements for their most demanding workloads, along with the pressure to be more efficient with their IT budgets and resources. They need the availability and resilience of UNIX-based platforms along with the familiarity and cost-efficiency of industry-standard platforms, HP noted.

Using advanced technology across a common, modular HP BladeSystem architecture, HP is developing platforms to enable clients to choose the best environment aligned to their organizations’ needs without compromise, helping ensure investment protection for the long term.

HP’s development roadmap includes ongoing innovations to HP Integrity servers, HP NonStop systems and the HP-UX and OpenVMS OS. The roadmap also includes delivering blades with Intel Xeon processors for the HP Superdome 2 enclosure (code name ‘DragonHawk’) and the scalable c-Class blade enclosures (code named ‘HydraLynx’), while fortifying Windows and Linux environments with innovations from HP-UX within the next two years.

With the availability of ‘DragonHawk,’ clients will be able to run mission-critical workloads on HP-UX on Intel Itanium-based blades while simultaneously running workloads on Microsoft Windows or Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Intel Xeon-based blades in the same Superdome 2 enclosure, stated the company.

"Clients have been asking us to expand the mission-critical experience that is delivered today with HP-UX on Integrity to an x86-based infrastructure," indicated Martin Fink, SVP and GM, business critical systems, HP. "HP plans to transform the server landscape for mission-critical computing by using the flexibility of HP BladeSystem and bringing key HP technology innovations from Integrity and HP-UX to the x86 ecosystem. Unlike the competition, HP offers an open, integrated, single platform approach."

With this project, HP will enable clients running Linux or Windows to increase scalability with 32-socket ‘DragonHawk’ symmetrical multiprocessing x86 systems that will scale to hundreds of cores and support large, complex workloads. The systems will enable clients to deploy the smallest to the largest workloads in a dynamic, highly scalable pool of IT resources. It will also allow increased reliability and flexibility with two-, four- and eight-socket ‘HydraLynx’ scalable x86 server blades with mission-critical virtualization and availability, all packaged in the robust c-Class enclosures of HP BladeSystem.

In addition, the development roadmap will lead to increased availability of critical Linux applications with the HP Serviceguard solution that automatically moves application workloads between servers in the event of a failure or an on-demand request. Likewise, it will boost flexibility and availability of x86 systems with HP nPartitions technology (nPars) that provides precise partitioning of system resources across multiple or variable workloads. HP nPars is electrically isolated to eliminate failure points that allow clients to ‘scale out’ within a single, robust system.

HP stated that ‘Odyssey’ will enhance business continuity with HP Analysis Engine for x86 embedded into the system firmware. HP Analysis Engine goes beyond error logging to ensure efficient diagnoses and automatic repair of complex system errors while restoring system stability in seconds. Additionally, the system will bolster reliability and resiliency of x86 systems with fault-tolerant HP Crossbar Fabric that intelligently routes data within the system for redundancy and high availability, added HP.

It will also achieve higher levels of availability with HP Mission Critical Services that identify and resolve possible sources of downtime, the company stated.

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HP to spin out PCs, drop webOS products

八月 20, 2011
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HP to spin out PCs, drop webOS products

Dylan McGrath  8/18/2011 3:47 PM EDT

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Hewlett-Packard CEO Léo Apotheker confirmed that rhe company will explore the spin out or sale of its PC business and said HP would discontinue operations for webOS devices, specifically the TouchPad tablet and webOS phones.

SAN FRANCISCO—Hewlett-Packard Co. Thursday (Aug. 18) confirmed that it would explore the spinout or sale of its PC business and announced that it would discontinue operations for webOS devices, specifically the TouchPad tablet and webOS phones.
HP (Palo Alto, Calif.) issued a statement about the PC spinout after it was reported by the Bloomberg news service and the Wall Street Journal. HP also announced an agreement to acquire Autonomy Corp., an enterprise software firm based in Cambridge, England, for roughly $10.2 billion.
In a conference call, HP CEO Léo Apotheker said that the PC market is undergoing rapid transformation and that HP’s PC business needs flexibility and agility in order to remain the world’s largest PC vendor, and that the company would explore the possibility of a spinout of the unit or another transaction. This exploration is expected to take 12 to 18 months,Apotheker said.
HP said its board of directors authorized the exploration of strategic alternatives for its Personal Systems Group, the firm’s PC marketing unit. HP is the largest PC seller in the world, with market share of about 18 percent total across desktops and notebooks.
Also Thursday, HP cut its sales forecast for fiscal 2011, saying it now expects revenue of about $127.2 billion to $127.6 billion, down from its previous estimate of $129 billion to $130 billion.
The discontinuation of products that run webOS, the operating system HP acquired when it bought Palm Inc. in 2010, came as a suprise. Apotheker indicated that it was a difficult decision, but that HP’s webOS products were not selling adequately. "Our webOS devices have not gained enough traction in the market among consumers an we see too long a ramp up," Apotheker said.
Apotheker said HP would explore strategic alternatives for developing webOS and the webOS ecosystem.
Market research firm Technology Business Research Inc. (TBR) said in a report circulated Thursday that the acquisition of Autonomy indicates that HP may finally move "all in" on both cloud and business analytics. In making the deal, Apotheker proves his ongoing commitment to software as a main driver of HP’s corporate future according to TBR.
Also Thursday,

HP reported preliminary sales of $31.2 billion for its fiscal third quarter, up from $30.7 billion for the same period last year.

The company reported a earnings per share in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) of 93 cents, up from 75 cents in the year-ago quarter.

On a non-GAAP basis, excluding charges, HP reported earnings per share of $1.10, up from $1.08 in the yar-ago quarter.
HP’s fiscal third quarter sales and non-GAAP earnings per share were in line with consensus analysts’ expectations, according to Yahoo Finance.
For the current quarter, HP said it expects sales of $32.1 billion to $32.5 billion.

The guidance fell short of consensus analysts’ expectations, which called for sales of $34 billion, according to Yahoo Finance.

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HP rolls low-power Ethernet switches

十二月 10, 2010
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HP rolls

low-power Ethernet switches

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Rick Merritt

12/8/2010 10:18 AM EST

Hewlett-Packard is shipping a family of network switches it claims are the first to use the newly minted Energy Efficient Ethernet standard thanks to new physical layer Gigabit Ethernet chips from Broadcom.

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Hewlett-Packard is shipping a family of network switches it claims are the first to use the newly minted Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) standard. Enabled by new physical layer Gigabit Ethernet chips from Broadcom and a new HP ASIC, the switches are showing significant advances over competing products in third party tests.

The IEEE 802.3az standard defines a protocol that lets two ends of an Ethernet network communicate only when they have packets to transfer. The protocol eliminates the overhead of typical administrative messages allowing systems to stay in a sleep mode as much as 80 percent of the time.

The Broadcom PHY chips provide the key support for the new spec. However, HP claims its second-generation 65nm ASIC that supports media access control and other 10G and Gigabit Ethernet functions also boosts power efficiency on the switches, mainly through better power gating on the chip.

The new HP E-Series zl modules include a range of ten 10G and Gigabit Ethernet adapter cards that slot into existing HP chassis.

An analysis commissioned by HP and conducted by Tolly Enterprises LLC, a third party testing company, compared the HP E5400 and E8200 switches using the EEE spec to Catalyst 3750-X and 4500 switches from Cisco Systems that do not use the standard. It said the HP switches consume 2.1 to 2.3 W per Gbit/s compared to 8 to 20 for the Cisco switches.

The 10G modules use optical fibre and consume up to 56 percent less power per port thanks to the ASIC. The Gigabit modules reduce power over copper links about 32 percent due to the ASIC and Broadcom parts, said Sreeram Krishnamachari, a global product manager at HP.

The EEE spec allows for a 16.5 microsecond latency getting the switches back out of sleep mode. "I expect the industry will adopt the standard pretty quickly," he added.

“With HP’s new modules, our network infrastructure is more agile and provides increased bandwidth for our researchers, yet it requires less physical space and consumes less energy,” said Chuck Sears, a manager of research computing at the College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences in Oregon State University, an early user of the switches speaking in an HP press release.

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