Hewlett Packard has raised its bid price to takeover the data control company 3PAR with an offer of 1.8 billion dollars to beat its rival Dell in this bidding battle.

HP has taken this step as Dell has launched an offer of 1.6 billion dollars to take over 3PAR on Monday and the amount of the deal was higher than the previous bid of HP for the same.

Hewlett Packard, with a view to acquire the highest position amidst the server merchants, outperformed opponent IBM while global server trades announced their largest jump since 2003.

Jon Rubinstein, Chairman and Chief Executive of Palm, expressed his opinion on the new games Palm phones at the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada, January 7, 2010.

Hewlett-Packard’s forthcoming tablet PC may have the potential to give Apple’s iPad a run for its money.

It has been reported that the computer may facilitate video conferencing, host at least one camera module, assist Adobe Flash and incorporate removable SD memory cards. These features would differentiate the HP tablet computer the iPad.

Details regarding Hewlett-Packard's tablet PC Slate have seeped in more concretely into the market as the latest rumors suggest that the Slate will first hit the US markets in June with _400 price which makes it $546.

Going by a report in The New York Times, a dual-screen, touchscreen tablet computer, called 'Courier,' would be announced by Microsoft and HP at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas on today, January 6, 2010; ahead of Apple's still-to-come announcement of its much-rumored tablet computer.