Today HP launched its 300 series portable GPS units through the iPAQ 310 Travel Companion, featuring a 4.3-inch touchscreen interface on a 3D, turn-by-turn navigation system.

The iPAQ 310 shows off some fast response times by housing a Centrality Titan 600MHz processor and 128MB SDRAM with 2GB of Flash ROM, running on Windows CE 5.0. The memory can be expanded with a microSD card slot to hold your additional media of pictures, songs and video to look at during those special, non-navigating moments with your GPS. It also has built-in Bluetooth which allows you to use the unit has a hands free phone answering system through its microphone and speaker along with your Bluetooth enabled phone.

The navigation software features turn-by-turn directions announcing the actual street names along the way with text-to-speech to help keep your eyes on the road. …

Today HP launched a retro-styled calculator in commemoration of the companies 35th anniversaryo of selling handheld calculators. The new HP 35s has an old-school design that looks similar to the original HP 35 handheld calculator but functionality is actually the companies most advanced scientific programmable calculator. The original HP 35 was launched in 1972 and was the first consumer product launched from HP, basically putting the slide rule to rest for good.

The new HP 35s handheld calculator is actually full of functionality with over 800 storage registers, multiple built-in functions, large display and buttons among other features, and comes with a zipper pouch. Then nostalgic and new 35th anniversary calculator from HP will be available for purchase late this summer, retailing for $59.99.

You can find videos, wallpaper and more information about the about the last 35 exciting years of HP …

HP has announced nine new digital cameras but the one we’re going to tell you about is the Photosmart R937. It’s 8 megapixel resolution, a 3x optical zoom and 8x digital zoom along with 32 MB of memory already make it decent but what sets it apart from other competitors is the jumbo-sized touch screen on the flip side of the unit.

The 3.6-inch screen is big enough to let anyone be able to crop and edit photos with ease, create slide-shows or organize them for later show and tell. The camera is compatible with all the last decade of Windows software and Mac OS X 10.3.9 and up. The HP Design Gallery software lets you do some neat tricks to your photos like remove red-eye in humans and furry friends, correct movement shaking and even …

HP has formally announced the Pavilion HDX laptop, or as the company has dubbed it, the Dragon. It certainly is a beast that demands you take notice of it: inside is an Intel 2.4GHz Centrino Duo processor, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT with 256 MB, 400 GB HDD, up to 4 GB of DDR RAM memory, HD DVD ROM with SuperMulti DVDA±R/RW, wireless/Bluetooth Intel PRO/Wireless 4965AGN network connection and 4 USB ports. Four Altec Lansing speakers and one HP Triple Bass Reflex subwoofer deliver the sounds.

But along with the serious gaming power come cool features like a dockable media remote control that pops out of the laptop if you want to carry it around. The 20.1 screen can deliver true HD 1080p resolution and its two lamps deliver what HP calls “Ultra BrightView” for extra illumination. The display also has a unique …

Today HP announced a new iPAQ smartphone to their product lineup featuring voice control and hands-free functions along with any array of wireless connectivity.

The new iPAQ 500 series Voice Messenger phones can understand over 20 different voice commands, include a voice reply command that allows the user to dictate their voice into an email message and send it, never having to key anything into the phone. The voice commands also control navigation of the phones menus and will read email and text messages so the user can listen to them instead of reading them.

The new iPAQ runs on the new Windows Mobile 6 OS and supports VoIP via built-in WiFi, “push” email, Bluetooth and GSM/EDGE.

“Busy professionals are constantly flooded with email and looking for ways to quickly and easily manage it and move on with their day, …

One of the few notable moments in Bill Gates‘s yawn-worthy opening keynote address was the official introduction of Windows Home Server, a version of Windows designed specifically for devices like HP‘s MediaSmart Server. Added to a home network (which can include PCs and Xboxes), it will perform automatic backups, share files to every device on the network, and allow access to your stuff from any Internet-connected machine, all features previously reserved for high-end commercial networks, available in your humble abode later this year.

The HP MediaSmart Server uses Microsoft Windows Home Server as its operating system. As previously stated access to your network is easy to setup so you can get to your home files from anywhere. Want to share your photos with Grandma and Grandpa without posting them to a public web site? The MediaSmart server can do that. …

Hewlett-Packard, these days better known for printers than innovation, has announced a breakthrough in chip manufacturing. The new process allows for eight times more gates to be put on each chip while simultaneously cutting power consumption. The nanotechnology also allows for higher fault tolerance and even possible reprogramming of chips even after the parts are installed in consumer electronics.

HP Labs researchers, Greg Snider and Stan Williams, published the news in published in Nanotechnology, a journal of the British Institute of Physics.

The advance allows more field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to be packed into a chip. FPGAs are similar to regular logic gates except they can also handle more complex operations. For those of you that didn’t have a computer architecture class, logic gates are the basic building blocks of a computer’s …

The HP iPAQ rx5900 Travel Companion will help you navigate, stay connected, stay informed, and always be entertained wherever your travels may take you. Thin and light, this iPAQ is truly small enough to take with you wherever you travel.

The Travel Companion is a complete GPS navigation system that includes a car kit and TomTom Navigator 6 pre-installed. The navigation software has complete maps of United States and Canada. More than just a GPS, the device will also give you the current time and weather for cities worldwide, convert currency, size and measurement, customize your packing list, and more.

The rx5900 is a Windows Mobile 5.0 handheld and includes pocket versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. You can also synchronize your Outlook calendar, contacts, and email.

Connectivity options include integrated 802.11b/g wireless LAN and Bluetooth wireless technologies. You can access the Internet, email and other …

The HP Compaq nc6400 Notebook PC is the first notebook in the United States to feature built-in global mobile broadband capabilities. The nc6400 is brought to you through collaboration between HP and Cingular Wireless who look to take advantage of Cingular’s UMTS/HSDPA network, which is available currently in 145 major metropolitan areas including 65 of the top 100 largest cities in 33 states.

The new notebook comes with integrated Cingular Wireless UMTS/HSDPA-based technology which uses the Qualcomm MSM6280 chipset to support 3.6Mbps performance modes and tri-band UMTS frequency bands. Business users now have more areas to connect to corporate networks at broadband speeds and in the future, consumers may have the option to upgrade to Cingular Wireless’ 3G network by adding an HP Broadband Wireless Module as an upgrade.

Broadband access is limited to the Cingular Wireless network coverage area and will require the purchase of a …

HP today introduced the industry’s first blade workstation solution. The new platform combines the benefits of a centralized data center with the performance of workstation-class machines. IT managers looking for a new workstation solution that delivers the security, reliability and manageability of a data center need look no further.

The heart of the HP Blade Workstation Solution is a small form factor client device that supports up to four displays. The client can make multiple blade connections when additional computing power is needed, thus dramatically reducing the heat, noise, and power consumption found in most desktop configurations.

Network administrators can now pack more computing power into their data centers; while adding, moving, and changing out PCs will be much easier and won’t affect operations. Other advantages include easier system maintenance and remote site operation, power and cooling, improved data security, disaster recovery support, and system uptime.

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On October 31st Cingular will be offering wireless customers a new mobile device from HP called the iPAQ hw6920.

The iPAQ hw6920 Mobile Messenger utilizes not only Cingular’s GSM/GPRS/EDGE wireless network but also has the communication capabilities of Wi-Fi, GPS, infrared transfers and Bluetooth.

The hw6920 runs on Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 with features such as Internet Explorer, Outlook and Windows Media Player, and the hw6925 model has a 1.3-megapixel HP Photosmart camera that can take still pictures and videos.

“HP is making it simple for customers to stay connected and work effectively when on the move,” said Alain Debost, director of handheld business unit NA for HP. “By combining the iPAQ hw6920 series wireless email, voice and fast data access with Cingular’s expansive network, we are allowing customers to tap into the information and rich content they want, …