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A fragmented entity

by Pallavi Sharma

At the HP Global Partner Conference in Las Vegas, senior editor, Sathya Mithra Ashok, discovered there’s a lot more to HP than meets the eye.

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“It is better to work with one distributor having a channel network within a country,” Mathis Lai

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“As a services business group our focus is to listen closely to our customers needs,” Xia Chaojie

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“We are trying to have one VAD structure for both hardware and software,” Alfonso Di Ianni

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Computing while commuting

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What happens to Samsung, LG, HTC after Google’s acquisition of Motorola?

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New breed of champions

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Fabrics of our life

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Top five Android smartphones this DSS

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First salvo is out

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