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• HP exits low-cost tablet market in product shakeup

  HP is scrapping its low-end tablet lineup to focus on detachables, hybrids and business tablets.

• Microsoft and HP reveal more details about Cloud partnership

  Hewlett Packard Enterprise has outlined new details about its hybrid cloud partnership with Microsoft, saying it will provide a new hardware product that integrates with the Azure Cloud platform and build its software to take advantage of Microsoft's offerings.

• Business wearables a juicy target market for HP Inc.

  HP Inc. is shying away from the consumer wearable market, but sees an untapped opportunity in wearables for businesses

• HP Inc. begins life with a new 4K laptop

  The ZBook Studio is a 15.6-inch laptop with a 4K screen

• Cisco said to plan China partnership to boost market access

  Cisco is tying with a Chinese partner for joint development and better access to the local market, according to a newspaper report.

• How HP used Big Data to optimise its fleet of 6000 vehicles

  HP collected data on nearly 6000 vehicles the company owns to gain efficiencies based on how they are used.

• Why big data will be a big deal for the new HP

  Big changes are afoot at HP as the company prepares for a split up this spring. Big data software is expected to be a pillar of the new Enterprise focused HP company.

• Parse opens up SDKs to Apple, Android developers

  Parse, <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/2824545/application-development/review-parse-delivers-mobile-apps-not-for-business.html">which provides a cloud platform for mobile and desktop apps,</a> plans to open-source all of its SDKs, starting with kits for iOS, OS X and Android.

• Biggest tech industry layoffs of 2015, so far

  While the United States unemployment rate has hit a post-recession low, the network and computing industry has not been without significant layoffs so far in 2015.

• R Consortium aims to strengthen data analysis

  The Linux Foundation today announced the formation of the R Consortium, intended to strengthen the technical and user communities around the R language, a specialized programming language for statistical data analysis.

• Arista has a controller now too

  <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/article/2857702/ethernet-switch/cisco-lawsuits-aside-arista-forges-ahead-with-eos.html">Arista Networks</a> this week unveiled what essentially is a centralized controller for its data center and cloud switches.

• Oracle taps former HP exec Donatelli for key hardware role

  Confirming rumours dating back to as early as March, Oracle has announced it has appointed former Hewlett-Packard executive David Donatelli as executive vice president for converged infrastructure.

• Dell adds Pluribus, brings Linux-based OS to its data center switches

  Dell has added <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/article/2872683/sdn/sdn-start-up-says-it-is-best-funded-in-industry.html">Pluribus Networks</a> to its lineup of disaggregation partners.

• PHP at 20: From pet project to powerhouse

  When Rasmus Lerdorf released "a set of small tight CGI binaries written in C," he had no idea how much his creation would impact Web development. Delivering the opening keynote at this year's SunshinePHP conference in Miami, Lerdorf quipped, "In 1995, I thought I had unleashed a C API upon the Web. Obviously, that's not what happened, or we'd all be C programmers."

• HP will pay $US100 million to settle Autonomy-related lawsuit

  The ongoing saga surrounding HP's ill-fated Autonomy acquisition continued on Tuesday with the company's announcement that it will pay $US100 million in a settlement agreement with PGGM Vermogensbeheer B.V.