HP’s enormous 34” all-in-one is an amazing piece of kit, and I had a brief hands-on at an HP launch late last month.

Home printers, especially desktop all-in-one (Multi-function printer - MFP scan, copy, print) are largish and occupy too much valuable desktop space, especially in smaller apartments. HP has solved that.

In yet another move to redefine boring beige and black desktop boxes HP has unveiled its Elite Slice – a 16.5cm square modular masterpiece that could replace several desktop devices.

At a recent HP consumer computing launch, I had to ask where the computer was – all I could see was a good-looking triangle shaped, B&O Play speaker. Wave goodbye to any concepts of boring.

German-based, global enterprise software company Software AG has beefed up its Australia-New Zealand management team.

Oracle has been ordered to pay Hewlett Packard US$3 billion by a US court as a result of a lawsuit brought by HP five years ago over Oracle’s decision to stop developing versions of its software for HP servers based on Intel's Itanium processors.

Printer and multifunction device manufacturer Oki has appointed Judy Wilson as channel manager – buying groups.

The board of ICT services giant CSC has given the green light to plans for the proposed merger with Hewlett Packard’s enterprise services business, HPE, with the newly merged company expected to have annual revenues of US$26 billion.

Network solutions provider Aruba says it has secured new contracts in the Australian healthcare sector as the use of digital technologies by health providers increases.

Revenue fell from $3.6 billion to $3.3 billion, total expenses were just over $3.6 billion – due mostly to the cost of keeping inventory in Australia.

Listed employee experience technology company REFFIND (ASX:RFN) has appointed IT industry veteran Rob van Es as its new Chief Operating Officer.

Fujitsu is spinning out its PC and smartphone businesses into separate companies from the start of February 2016 in a move which the company says has been forced on it by commoditisation and competitive pressures in both markets.

A roundtable for regulators, designed to address the significant uncertainty about the regulatory treatment of digital currencies, such as Bitcoin, and blockchain technology will be a key feature of the upcoming international blockchain workshops to be staged in Sydney in December.

There is a change on the way in the top executive ranks of Telstra with Retail Group Executive Gordon Ballantyne set to leave the telco by the end of this year.

Ericsson and Hewlett-Packard are collaborating to bring to the market what they say is a ‘ground-breaking’ set of Wi-Fi and LTE solutions providing customers with ubiquitous voice and data connectivity.

Global security solutions vendor WatchGuard Technologies has appointed former HP Australia senior executive, Gurkirat Singh as northern region territory sales manager.

NBN the company has joined the executive council of the Communications Alliance Internet of Things (IoT) Think Tank as the group readies itself for a key decision-setting workshop looking at strategies for the development of the IoT in Australia.

Hewlett Packard has suffered a hit in its enterprise services business, with a significant drop in revenue for the division in the April quarter.

Telstra has appointed Warwick Bray as its chief financial officer

HP has overtaken IBM as server market leader. Its position is likely to be further consolidated by its announcement this morning (Australian time) of a major new server architecture.