Salim Ziade and Amin Mortazavi, the general managers of HP's Personal Systems Group (PSG) and Imaging and Printing Group (IPG) said that GITEX has made Dubai as a gateway and hub for Middle East IT. The event is promoting Dubai as a top technology hub offering opportunities to industries and entrepreneurs from worldwide.

After acquiring HP's former Cupertino campus Apple is looking to Norman Foster, a British architect. It is planning to design a modern, environmental campus that will symbolize Apple's design philosophies.

Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer recently released an HP tablet at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, which appeared to resemble the Apple iPad and boasted of Windows 7.

HP termed the tablet was named as the Consumer Notebook Slate. The Slate 500 has now been released, and comes as new HP’s marketing device.

Silicon Valley giant Oracle has announced its decision to hire ousted chief executive of Hewlett-Packard Mark Hurd as its president and member of the board.

The former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard Mark Hurd, who resigned from the company amid a scandal, has joined rival tech giant Oracle Corp as its president and member of the board.

Hurd is a close friend of Oracle CEO Larry Ellison will replace outgoing president Charles Phillips, according to a company statement. Phillips was working in the company as a co-president along with Safra Catz who will continue her services with Hurd.

Hewlett-Packard has announced the launch of its new power efficient laptop named, HP Mini 210 on Wednesday.

The laptop comes with flashy new color skins and comes with Intel's newest chip technology that enhances performance without extra stress on the battery. The laptop weighs only 3-pound and the company claims that it offers a battery life of 10.75 hours with a six-cell battery.

Technology giants, Hewlett-Packard and Dell are in a bidding war for what is called the last independent vendor of enterprise class data storage, 3Par.