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• Breaking up is hard to do, but HP won't look back

  Breaking up Hewlett-Packard is "totally the right thing to do for this company," CEO Meg Whitman said on Tuesday, after HP reported declines in revenue and profit for the last quarter.

• HP plugs the Vertica analytics engine into Hadoop

  Bringing some enterprise rigor to the wild world of big data, Hewlett-Packard has issued a package that will allow organizations to harness HP's Vertica analytical database engine to investigate reams of unstructured data residing in Hadoop systems.

• Top500 Supercomputer race loses momentum

  Once a seething cauldron of competition, the twice-yearly Top500 listing of the world's most powerful supercomputers has grown nearly stagnant of late.

• HP and Nokia join forces to build Cloud-based networks for operators

  Nokia Networks and Hewlett-Packard are collaborating on a platform that aims to let operators to roll out new services faster by moving to a Cloud-based infrastructure.

• HP's BYOD service protects mobile devices and PCs

  Hewlett-Packard wants to make BYOD easier for small businesses through a new cloud-based service to manage and protect mobile devices and PCs.

• HP to jolt 3D printer market

  3D printing could become faster, cheaper and more efficient with Hewlett-Packard entering the market.

• HP's radical new Machine could start computing by 2016

  Hewlett-Packard's efforts to usher in an entirely new computer architecture, one potentially much faster and simpler, may bear fruit by the end of 2016, when the company's lab expects to have the first prototype machine based on its design.

• Dell takes one last shot at selling Windows 7 Home Premium PCs

  Just days before Microsoft orders OEMs to stop building new PCs with Windows 7 Home Premium, Dell tried one last time to spur sales using the lure of the five-year-old consumer OS.

• HP gives Moonshot server its first Xeon chip

  If Hewlett-Packard's Moonshot server doesn't pan out, it won't be for lack of trying.

• Despite recent gains, the best year for tech employment remains 2001

  In 2001, the tech industry employed 6.5 million people. Then the bubble burst, and payrolls shrank dramatically.

• Dell, HP keep moving to help carriers virtualise their networks

  The next frontier for virtualisation and standard x86 servers is in service-provider networks, and big computing vendors are moving fast to blaze the trail there.

• Hopes high for HP spinoffs, but PC and printer concerns linger

  Hewlett-Packard's plan to slice itself in two is being well-received by a cross-section of customers, though questions linger around PC and printer services and support.

• IT industry group slams burdens imposed by proposed EU privacy policy

  Justice ministers' proposals to relax European Union data protection rules for low-risk personal data are a step in the right direction, according to a lobbying group backed by IBM, Microsoft and Oracle.

• Chinese workers strike at Foxconn factory after HP cuts orders

  About 1,000 workers at a factory of manufacturing giant Foxconn Technology Group went on strike on Wednesday demanding better wages, after production orders from Hewlett-Packard were cut, according to a labor protection group.

• PC shipments down just slightly in the third quarter, IDC says

  Worldwide PC shipments fell slightly in the third quarter this year, but the drop wasn't as big as IDC had originally projected, with expanded offerings of inexpensive laptops and a saturation of tablets in some areas helping to improve the numbers, the tech industry research firm said.