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Hewlett-Packard, the No. 1 computer company, will phase out an older Intel chip on high-end servers in favor of a newer one. Besides offering more power, another goal could be to battle rival Oracle.

Hewlett Packard's new Chief Executive, Meg Whitman, passed her first test with investors, calming nerves and assuring Wall Street that the technology giant will be disciplined with its investments and focused on core operational improvements.

BlackBerry's PlayBook in on back order from Best Buy because the price has been dropped to just $200, but for this weekend only, another tablet computer is being offered for just $200, the Motorola Xoom. Verizon is selling the 10-inch Xoom tablet at a subsidized price because it comes with a two year data contract. Xoom runs the Android system, has front and rear-facing cameras and is both Wi-Fi and 4G enabled.

Hewlett-Packard is trying to enlist European antitrust authorities to investigate whether Oracle improperly leveraged its strength in software to freeze HP out of certain parts of the hardware market, attorneys for both companies said in court.

Research in Motion cut the price of its Blackberry PlayBook from $499 to $199 for a limited time to appeal to holiday shoppers.

Apple will displace Hewlett-Packard as the world's top PC maker in early 2012, Canalys estimates. The report lumped tablet sales in with PC sales, arguing that tablets have redefined the personal computer.

Now that we’ve announced HP’s full-year results for 2011, here’s what we have to do to get back on course: Focus on a united company and other aspects of my plan.

Deutsche Bank has lowered its profit estimates of Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE:HPQ) saying that profit centers of the company's major businesses are structurally handicapped and turnaround will be long and slow.

Sam's Club is offering its members some of the best in-store Black Friday 2011 deals on various items starting at 5 a.m. Friday, Nov. 25 and online starting at 11 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 23. in its annual Day After Thanksgiving Event (D.A.T.E.).

Hewlett-Packard, the world’s largest computer company, reported fourth-quarter earnings that exceeded expectations even as sales of PCs and printers fell. As well, the company wrote off a record $3.3 billion of the failure of its TouchPad in the tablet sector.

Traditionally Black Friday deals were revealed through ads released in national and local newspapers on Thanksgiving day, but now with the Internets capacity to make ads go viral the deals are being released earlier and earlier. Here is a roundup of the ads released for Black Friday 2011 so far:

Black Friday excitement is in full swing with a number of stores offering attractive deals on high demand products

Audi has confirmed a top-caliber international driver line-up for the 2012 Armor All Bathurst 12 Hour race, confirming the return of two of the three drivers from the winning combination this year.

Research in Motion, the company that makes BlackBerry smartphones, plans to slash $300 off the price of its tablet computer, the BlackBerry PlayBook. $200 seems to be the magic number because that's how much Amazon is selling its already popular Kindle Fire for. Tech blog Apple Insider reported the RIM price drop in a blog post, and it spark yet another tablet war this holiday season.

When Ray Lane took over as chairman of Hewlett-Packard Co a year ago, he was looking forward to working with longtime associate Leo Apotheker, who had just been appointed CEO to repair the damage done by the messy departure of Mark Hurd.

Hewlett-Packard, the No. 1 computer services company, has elected Ralph Whitworth, a well-known activist investor to its board, its first election since new CEO Meg Whitworth was elected Sept. 25.

Activist investor Ralph Whitworth is joining Hewlett Packard Co's board after taking a small stake in the Silicon Valley behemoth, a move that may cheer many on Wall Street frustrated by the company's recent decisions.

The companies that are expected to see active trade on Thursday are: GameStop Corp, Applied Materials, GAP Inc, NetApp, Salesforce.com, Ross Stores, Sears Holdings, J M Smucker, Helmerich & Payne and Intuit Inc.

Shares of Dell feel 2 percent despite the company's report of higher-tha-expected results.

Dell, the No. 2 PC maker, reported third-quarter net income rose nine percent, or 49 cents a share, ahead of estimates largely due to stronger sales to enterprise clients.

Google sent the source code for its Android 4.0 system update to developers in early November, and they are now free to tinker with the system and add different features to the customizable operating system. One of those features includes hacking Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) and building a version that can be downloaded before the official version is sent out to certain devices.