Hewlett-Packard cuts 2009 forecast as PC demand wanes

The News Review:

- Hewlett-Packard cuts 2009 forecast as PC demand wanes
- PC makers’ shares fall on fears of worsening demand
- Livescribe Pulse Smartpen links what you hear to what you write
- Students staff remark on Mac PC disparities
- Read all ‘Logitech Harmony 1100′ posts in Crave
- H&A Scientific Inc. Announces New Ethernet (TCP/IP) Connectivity …
- BitDefender QuickScan Beta to Provide Second pinion on PC Security

Hewlett-Packard cuts 2009 forecast as PC demand wanes
Business Mirror Philippines -
0pt; font-family:”Times New Roman”; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;}. the world?s largest personal computer (PC) maker reported sales that missed analysts? estimates and reduced its earnings forecast for the year. The company is cutting salaries starting this quarter. Sales in the year ending in ctober will fall 2 percent to 5 percent from $118. 4 billion in 2008 the company said in a statement. In November Hewlett-Packard had forecast a gain in revenue to at least $127.
Related from Rizzicreations: GM Cuts Global Auto Industry Sales Forecast; 2009 Down 15%

PC makers’ shares fall on fears of worsening demand
Reuters -
2 services firm posted weak fiscal first-quarter sales of printers personal computers and servers. Apple shares fell nearly 4 percent as new data showed the company’s premium-priced computers are proving a tougher sell in difficult times. According to research group NPD Apple’s January computer sales through U. retail outlets fell 6 percent on a unit basis from a year ago as the dollar value dropped 11 percent. Its unit market share fell to 13.

Livescribe Pulse Smartpen links what you hear to what you write
Dallas Morning News TX -
com Anyone who has ever taken notes in a classroom or a meeting knows what it’s like to return to those notes and wonder what the heck they mean. Now technology will tell you. The Livescribe Pulse Smartpen combines a pen a digital recorder and high-tech paper to associate each word you write with the sounds you heard when you wrote it.

Students staff remark on Mac PC disparities
The Daily Beacon TN -
Many factors contribute to the choice students have to make when buying or using a computer. Some students deem Macs to be “user-friendly. “The reason I bought a Mac is because it has a very user-friendly interface and PCs are geared more for people that need them for technical purposes” said Nicole Cooksey junior in graphic design Sally Timson graduate student in speech pathology agreed. “It’s user-friendly and you don’t have to be tech savvy to use one” Timson said. “It’s always worked smoothly for me.

Read all ‘Logitech Harmony 1100′ posts in Crave
CNET News CA -
Unlike the former the Lapdesk marries hard plastic with a padded cushion for what seems to be the best of both worlds. Though it won’t cool your notebook or roll up into bundle like the Thermapak the Lapdesk can double as a useful work surface while you’re lounging on the couch. Thermapak or Logitech? Time to dust off that Magic 8 ball.

H&A Scientific Inc. Announces New Ethernet (TCP/IP) Connectivity …
Pharmaceutical nline (press release) PA -
Data acquisition rates of 4 8 16 and 32 samples per second (Hz) are supported. Support for valve contact closure or TTL start signal or data acquisition may be initiated from the keyboard.

BitDefender QuickScan Beta to Provide Second pinion on PC Security
MSNBC -
The QuickScan online service is intended to provide an alternative totraditional online system scanning solutions which are heavy on bothbandwidth and system resources. BitDefender QuickScan easily and quicklychecks the machine scanning for patterns and virus signatures alreadyknown as threats. “This beta version no longer has the engines downloaded with any updatesin tow onto the scanned computer. The scanning engines are now left onBitDefender servers with the local component sending only the relevantbits of suspicious files for analysis. We hope to achieve significantspeedups over the traditional solutions” explained Bogdan DumitriBitDefender CT. Story continues below ?advertisement |.

Written by admin on February 20th, 2009 with no comments.
Read more articles on News.

Related articles

No comments

There are still no comments on this article.

Leave your comment...

If you want to leave your comment on this article, simply fill out the next form:




You can use these XHTML tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong> .