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    Hewlett-Packard was granted a temporary restraining order on Thursday against a former executive who has accused the company in court documents of spying on rival Dell.

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    Hewlett-Packard and EDS are expected to shortly detail which executives will lead their now combined Australian operation following HP's $13.9 billion acquisition of the Texan IT outsourcing giant over the past several months.

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    Hewlett-Packard completed on Tuesday in the US its mega-acquisition of computer services giant EDS.

  • HP unticks an Emerson box

    Hewlett-Packard has notified the nation's financial regulator that EDS Australia managing director Neil Emerson and several of his colleagues are no longer on paper technically leading the IT outsourcer's local operations.

  • ATO unfazed by HP/EDS cuts

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    It's just two months until Microsoft plans to pull the plug on Windows XP arguably its best operating system to date.

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  • Read the blog post - David Braue

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    As anybody who works from home knows, one of the great benefits of telecommuting is that pants are optional. Wear your pyjamas to that teleconference, or attend in your birthday suit if you prefer; nobody will be the wiser.

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  • Software's 'stack wars'

    To move ahead, big software companies are reaching back to a familiar strategy: offering customers a soup-to-nuts "stack" of software products.

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  • HP Photosmart 8750

    This is a decent printer for the photo enthusiast or scrapbooker who wants the amenities of a consumer printer in the size of a medium-format model.

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  • HP Compaq Business Notebook nx9110

    The nx9110 offers a good compromise between performance, features and price for the mobile executive.

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