Q3 2010 Results From HP

Hewlett-Packard Development Company has announced its latest financial results, for the third quarter of 2010 that ended July 31, 2010.

The company has posted net revenue of USD 30.7 billion, which is higher by 11.4% compared to the same quarter’s performance of 2009. Operating profit zoomed up to USD 2.3 billion, which is 5% higher than that reported for the same quarter last year. The GAAP diluted earning per share (EPS) has worked out to USD 0.75, which is higher than the USD 0.69 notched up for Q3 2009.

Amongst its various business lines, the services stream increased its revenue by 1% to USD 8.6 billion, while the sale of enterprise storage and server equipment fetched it revenue of USD 4.4 billion, which is a whopping 19% increase over the previous year’s third quarter. The company earned USD 863 million revenue in software sales. There are two groups focused on two different domains – the Personal Systems Group, which notched USD 9.9 billion and the Imaging and Printing Group, which notched USD 6.2 billion.

The company’s financial services arm too saw a growth of revenue by 14% and touched USD 764 million.

Read more about the financial performance of this IT biggie, here.

New Services For MagCloud Platform From HP

Hewlett-Packard Development Company has announced a new set of services for its self-publishing web platform, MagCloud.

These new services include:

- shipping to destinations around the world, which means that a customer now has the option to order a single issue of any publication on MagCloud.

- new options for binding hard copies, which means that magazines with pagecount more than 300 can be printed with perfection.

- and an application that enables consuming digital material on the iPad, which is available for free from App Store. There is also an option to buy a hardcopy version of the content. This implies that any publisher can now offer content in both digital and print format to iPad users, using the MagCloud platform.

The MagCloud publishing ecosystem provides facilities to publishers who want to save on preproduction costs or the hassle of minimum print runs. Because the market is moving towards more and more niche, targeted readership, the platform provides people to experiment with their chosen target with minimal investment.

The platform also creates a level ground for new and novice publishers who may have little experience, little or no reach and minimal capital.

Read more about how a SaaS platform is being ramped up to prove more useful for its users, courtesy HP, here.

HP Designjet 110plus Printer

As the name suggests, HP’s Designjet 110plus printer is essentially meant for people in the design profession. Any printing assignments involving intricate artwork, color, thin-lined architectural designs, or digital paintings with minute details, which any other printer will make a mess of, can be comfortably delegated to Designjet 110plus.

The printer has the capability to take on jobs of variety of sizes, from postcard to poster, because of three independent paper paths that are built into its scaffolding. Users find it very rugged and sensitive at the same time, as it can face the rough and tough of rigid print media that are 300 gsm thick, and is equally at ease with coated, glossy, bright white, proofing matte and proofing semigloss sheets.

Measuring 41 inch X 16.3 inch X 8.7 inch, the device weighs 48.5 pounds and is surprisingly light for the functions it performs. An inbuilt memory of 64 MB remembers the next set of sheets it has to print, so a high-speed computer does not really overwhelm it. The brain of the printer is the 16Mhz Impala 2 ASIC processor, which manages all the activities of the device without any sweat.

The HP Designjet 110plus printer carries a tag of USD 1,044.99.

Read more about this versatile printer from HP, here.

New Solutions From HP For Mission Critical Environments

Palo Alto, California-headquartered HP has upgraded its “NonStop” system offering with a new set of features.

When it was introduced in 1974, Tandem Computer’s NonStop system was the first fault-tolerant system in the world. The system was offered as a solution with not one single point of failure. The solution immediately became a hot favorite of industries such as banking, telecom, government and healthcare because of the high degree of reliability. In 2002, after the HP-Compaq merger, NonStop System came into HP’s fold.

The company has brought out some new enhancements to the NonStop portfolio: The BladeCluster Express 1.2 enables managing enterprise data center systems that are spread over large geographies. The SOAP 4.0 software integrates with open source software such as Spring, Apache Axis 2, MyFaces and Hibernate to aggregate “islands” of information across an enterprise. The SQL 2.3 database now provides simplified software programming and better application capacity, according to the company release.

The servers from HP are deployed in heterogeneous operating environments such as multiple flavors of Unix, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and the like.

Read more about the latest offerings from HP for customers with mission critical functionalities, here.

iPAQ Glisten Mobile Phone From HP And AT&T

Hewlett-Packard Development Company and AT&T Inc have announced the launch of a new mobile / cell phone in the market. The device is called iPAQ Glisten, and is available for USD 229.99. AT&T is offering a USD 50 promotion card with a two-year agreement along with this device.

iPAQ Glisten is built on 3G technology and runs on Windows Mobile 6.5 OS. It has a 2.5″ diagonal touchscreen that is built on touch-enabled AMOLED (active-matrix organic light-emitting diode) technology, and a 5-way directional QWERTY keypad. The machine comes with 256 MB SDRAM / 512 MB Flash. The device syncs with any desktop using softwares such as Active Sync or Microsoft Exchange. Users can browse through the web using Internet Explorer Mobile 6, and leverage the telecom infrastructure of AT&T in the background, and a dedicated on/off button gives them instant access to over 20,000 AT&T Wi-Fi hotspots. For select smartphone data plans, this access comes free. The device comes with Microsoft Office’s Mobile version, so apps such as Excel, Word and PowerPoint can be used as easily as on a desktop.

Read about the latest entrant in the mobile telephony world, here.

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