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• HP completes $US2.35 billion 3Par merger

  HP has completed its $2.35 billion merger with 3Par, just weeks after thwarting rival Dell in a bidding war for the storage vendor, HP announced Monday. 

• Dell taking another stab at the tablet

  Dell showed off a prototype of a 7-inch Android tablet this week at the Oracle Open World conference in San Francisco. While being more tablet-sized than Dell's initial anemic attempt at joining the tablet fray, this new venture still faces some challenges in order to compete.

• Dell names former Cisco exec to lead networking

  Dell has hired Cisco Systems veteran Dario Zamarian to lead its networking business, naming him as its first vice president dedicated to that division.

• Dell evaluating Internet TV devices and Google TV software

  Dell on Thursday said it is considering the development of devices beyond PCs that would stream Internet content to regular television sets.

• Will Twitter attack drive off IT interest?

  This week's Twitter hack may not immediately drive corporate executives away from the microblogging site, but it may raising some early warning signs.

• Michael Dell shows off tablet with 7-inch screen

  Dell said on Wednesday it is developing a 7-inch tablet as it experiments with handheld devices with different screen sizes.

• Dell offers new power-efficient server

  Dell has launched a new server designed specifically for Web 2.0 applications and aimed at hosting companies. The company said DCS Viking offered extensive savings on power and cooling costs to tap into the growing need to be more energy efficient.

• Dell aims Streak at enterprises

  Dell is trying to extend the appeal of its Streak handheld to businesses and add a new dimension to its enterprise hardware, software and services offerings, a company official said this week.

• Dell to expand operations in China

  Dell is opening new manufacturing facilities and customer support centers in China, it said Thursday.

• Motorola's Android tablet coming next year?

  The burgeoning tablet market is about to get even more crowded, as Motorola on Thursday confirmed that it, too, plans to offer a tablet computer in the coming months. Details about the Android-based device are scarce, however, and Motorola's Co-Chief Executive Sanjay Jha would only say that the company hopes to be able to release the tablet "early next year."

• Sweet swivel-screen tablet makes rounds at IDF 2010

  Dell's latest in geektechery is making the rounds—a 10-inch netbook-tablet hybrid with a sweet swiveling screen. If you want to show off that awesome photo from last month's vacation, just flip the screen around with the swivel; to do some typing, just flip it back around. The new hybrid was recently displayed at the Intel Developer Forum 2010, according to Engadget.

• Brocade's performance uneven of late

  Brocade's announcement of 100G Ethernet routers and modules comes at a time when the company has had uneven results in Ethernet and IP since acquiring Foundry Networks in 2008 for $2.6 billion.

• HPC meets cloud computing with Dell's new server

  With a new range of hardware announced Thursday, Dell's is targeting high-performance and cloud computing environments that share similar hyperscale characteristics.

• Windows Phone 7 to launch 11 October, report says

  Microsoft will launch Windows Phone 7 on 11 October at an event in New York, according to a report on the Pocket-lint Web site.

• HP buys 3Par, Apple rolls out new gear

  Hewlett-Packard swooped in with the better bid to overtake Dell and win 3Par, so now we can all sit back and wait for the next acquisition battle to roll around. Meanwhile, Apple debuted updated iPods and Apple TV to entertain us, among other IT news stories of the week.