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SAN JOSE, Calif. — Data traffic volumes have surpassed voice in the mobile space, a trend that is expected to continue well into the future, an Ericsson official said during an industry panel session in Silicon Valley Tuesday evening. Three years ago, said  Ericsson CTO Hakan Eriksson, there was very little data passing over the [...]

Hewlett-Packard will release a tablet PC based on Palm’s WebOS operating system in “early 2011,” the head of HP’s PC division said Thursday. HP’s tablet plans have been under close watch since it announced plans to buy Palm in April for $1.2 billion. There was speculation at the time that HP would ditch its plans [...]

In the future, business meetings might seem like a scene out of the movie “Star Wars,” if  technology envisioned at HP comes to fruition. Stars Wars-like 3-D projection technology is on the drawing board at the company, with the potential to project businesspersons at many locations into virtual reality-like meetings without having to hop on [...]

Hewlett-Packard announced its third-quarter financial results on Thursday and insisted it was “looking forward, not back” following the surprise departure two weeks ago of Chairman and CEO Mark Hurd. Cathie Lesjak, HP’s CFO who was also made interim CEO after Hurd’s departure, told reporters that HP’s strategy is unlikely to change when it appoints a [...]

 Analysts are developing a short list of possible candidates to replace former Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd, who resigned Friday. But it’s worth noting that Hurd’s name didn’t come up often, if at all, as a contender in 2005, when he was tapped for the HP job. At the time, he was a veteran of NCR, [...]

Hewlett-Packard will use Windows 7 in a tablet exclusively for enterprises, while making a consumer-oriented unit based on WebOS, Personal Systems Group executive Phil McKinney confirmed Wednesday at the annual AlwaysOn Stanford Summit. The sprawling technology vendor is taking a targeted approach to its upcoming tablets, which will go up against Apple’s blockbuster iPad and [...]

Hewlett-Packard on Thursday finalized its acquisition of Palm and confirmed it will use the company’s WebOS in future tablets and netbooks. The $1.2 billion deal was announced April 28 and followed by reports and expectations that HP would extend the operating system beyond Palm’s Pre and Pixi handset product lines to larger form factors. In [...]

Matias Duarte, formerly vice president of human interface and user experience at Palm, has left to take a job with Google, marking one of the first defections since Hewlett-Packard announced plans to buy the struggling phone maker. Duarte will serve as user experience director for Android, Google said. [ Stay up on tech news and [...]

Hewlett-Packard reported solid results for its second quarter as strong growth in PC and x86 server sales helped offset an unremarkable quarter for its services business. HP’s revenue for the quarter ended April 30 was $30.8 billion, up 13 percent from a year earlier and ahead of the consensus estimate from Wall Street analysts, according [...]

Hewlett-Packard plans to buy struggling phone maker Palm for $1.2 billion. The announcement, which came just after the U.S. stock market closed on Wednesday, follows rumors this week of a number of suitors, including Lenovo and HTC, vying to buy the iconic brand. [ Stay up on tech news and reviews from your smartphone at [...]