News tagged with electronic data system

Graphene and 'spintronics' combo looks promising

A team of physicists has taken a big step toward the development of useful graphene spintronic devices. The physicists, from the City University of Hong Kong and the University of Science and Technology of China, present ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Hurd in the crosshairs: SEC probe seen as limited

(AP) -- A federal probe of Mark Hurd's hasty resignation as Hewlett-Packard Co.'s CEO touches on some of the biggest names in technology.

Technology / Business

created Dec 21, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

SEC investigating Hurd's ouster as HP's CEO

(AP) -- Mark Hurd is facing more fallout from his ouster five months ago as CEO of Hewlett-Packard Co., the world's biggest personal computer and printer maker.

Technology / Business

created Dec 21, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New insights into holiday driving dangers with UA electronic crash data

The Holiday Season is upon us, and many of us will be driving at times and in areas that are new or different from what we normally do.

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 22, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Hurd accuser claimed inside info

(AP) -- A person familiar with the ouster of Hewlett-Packard Co.'s former CEO Mark Hurd tells The Associated Press that the woman who accused Hurd of sexual harassment also claimed that he told her about ...

Technology / Business

created Nov 06, 2010 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Report: HP close to buying ArcSight for $1.5B

(AP) -- Computer maker Hewlett-Packard Co. may be close to another major acquisition.

Technology / Business

created Sep 13, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Hewlett-Packard to cut 9K jobs in services unit

(AP) -- Hewlett-Packard Co. said Tuesday it will lay off about 9,000 workers in the unit that provides technology services to other businesses as the company consolidates and automates its commercial data ...

Technology / Business

created Jun 01, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New technology will make election voting more efficient

Did you stay up all night to hear your local result during the recent election? Time-consuming manual vote-counts and ballot boxes could soon be consigned to the history books, thanks to innovative new secure voting technology.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 26, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Organic ternary data storage device developed

(PhysOrg.com) -- The memory capacity of electronics devices could be increased in future thanks to an organic data storage system using ternary rather than binary data storage. The current prototype is designed ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 14, 2010 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (14) | comments 9 | with audio podcast report

HP trims 1Q net income because of lawsuit ruling

(AP) -- Hewlett-Packard Co. trimmed the net income it reported for its fiscal first quarter Friday, saying it has to set aside more money than expected to deal with a lawsuit against it in the U.K.

Technology / Business

created Mar 06, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

HP profit jumps on cost cuts, new market expansion

(AP) -- Hewlett-Packard Co.'s cost-cutting and push into new markets is helping soften the blow from weakness in the company's mainstay businesses.

Technology / Business

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Darwin meets Facebook

Natural history plans to chart life on earth, yet the discipline risks being buried under a landslide of painstakingly collected data that isn't always used. Now researchers at London's Natural History Museum have created ...

Biology / Other

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Dell eyes tech services with $3.9B deal for Perot

(AP) -- Dell Inc. plans to buy the technology services company Perot Systems Corp. for about $3.9 billion as it tries to expand beyond the PC business and compete more aggressively with Hewlett-Packard Co. ...

Technology / Business

created Sep 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

BioVault locks up biometrics: Using biometrics for encryption, digital signatures

A system that allows biometric data to be used to create a secret key for data encryption has been developed by researchers in South Africa. They describe details of the new technology in the International Journal of Electronic Se ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jul 31, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0