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PRESS RELEASE

Cisco and Federation of Canadian Municipalities Collaborate to Foster Awareness of Sustainable Communities

TORONTO, ON - July 26, 2012 - Cisco today announced it has entered into a strategic agreement with the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) to raise awareness and to provide education on the benefits of applying innovation and technology to the development of Canada's 21st century leading cities and communities.

Under the terms of the agreement, Cisco will provide thought leadership, tools, and support to the almost 2,000 FCM members, based on Cisco's acclaimed Smart+Connected Communities™ framework for the development of sustainable and competitive cities and communities. Together, Cisco and FCM will promote the benefits of technology and innovation for productivity, growth, competitiveness, and sustainable transformation.

Facts and Highlights:

• Cisco and FCM will seek to cultivate new and innovative solutions to the problems facing municipal governments and their communities, and to use technology to increase the participation and the productivity of citizens and businesses.
• Cisco and FCM hope to empower municipalities to foster, grow, and accelerate economic development, and social and environmental sustainability.
• Cisco's broad portfolio of public and private partnerships, products, services and solutions, along with FCM's municipal knowledge and experience, will provide the foundation for the strategic agreement.     
• Cisco's Smart+Connected Communities deliver new services and experiences over intelligent community networks to promote economic, social and environmental sustainability. Cisco has a number of Smart+Connected Communities initiatives throughout Canada with FCM members, including:
  • Rampart's Avenir Communities in St. Albert, Alberta: all services, business and residential as well as access to community and government services such as healthcare and education, will be based on an ultra high speed network infrastructure
  • The city of Vancouver, British Columbia: developing services to deliver enhanced energy efficiency to support the city's green energy and environmental goals
  • The city of Stratford, Ontario: developing advanced collaboration and citizen engagement solutions using Stratford's intelligent networks
  • The city of Fredericton, New Brunswick: Cisco helped the city develop the Fred-eZone, a free, community-wide Wi-Fi network.
• FCM is the national voice of municipal governments within Canada, with nearly 2,000 municipality members representing over 90 percent of Canada's population.

Supporting quotes:

Brock Carlton, chief executive officer, FCM:

"Municipal governments are on the front lines in meeting the challenges of the 21st century and as a result have a tremendous impact on the daily lives of Canadians. That makes municipal government the right place to start implementing technologies that can make our communities more livable, competitive and sustainable. With its Smart+Connected Communities initiative, Cisco has shown it can help municipalities apply technology to solve challenges and strengthen their communities. FCM looks forward to working with Cisco to help our members build sustainable and competitive cities and communities that will drive growth in Canada and improve our quality of life."    

Nitin Kawale, president, Cisco Canada:

"Cisco believes very strongly in the potential of technology to positively affect economic development. We continue to build strong relationships within the private and public sectors in order to facilitate the positive transformation of our communities, regions and country. FCM's members are looking for ways to operate more efficiently and sustainably while improving the quality of life and economic competitiveness of their communities. Through our new relationship, Cisco will help them meet this challenge."

Rick Huijbregts, vice president, Smart+Connected Communities, Cisco Canada:

"We applaud the vision of FCM to embrace technology and innovation as a future-enabler for its member communities. Together, we believe we can provide thought leadership and real-life examples to FCM members that can immediately be used in their own municipalities to foster economic growth, environmental sustainability, and social prosperity. Our unique partnership celebrates the formation of a nationwide public-private ‘human' network that will help advocate and accelerate innovation and productivity for Canada."

Supporting Resources:

·         Federation of Canadian Municipalities

·         Cisco Smart+Connected Communities

·         Cisco Smart+Connected Communities Institute

·         Follow Cisco Canada on Twitter and Facebook

·         Watch Cisco S+CC solutions.

About Cisco

Cisco, (NASDAQ: CSCO), the worldwide leader in networking that transforms how people connect, communicate and collaborate. Cisco Canada Co., a wholly owned subsidiary of Cisco, has offices across Canada dedicated to customer support, sales and service. For ongoing news, please go to http://newsroom.cisco.com/canada/.

Accenture Launches Three Innovation Centers for SAP® Solutions in Asia-Pacific

Press release:

May 29, 2012

Accenture Launches Three Innovation Centers for SAP® Solutions in Asia-Pacific

New Centers Open in China, Japan, and Singapore

 

NEW YORK; May 29, 2012 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) today announced it is expanding its global network of Innovation Centers for SAP® solutions with the opening of new centers in Beijing, Tokyo, and Singapore.  Focused on accelerating the development, delivery and commercialization of business solutions based on SAP technologies, the centers will help clients increase speed to market, enhance flexibility, and improve business performance. 

 

The Accenture Innovation Centers for SAP solutions bring together Accenture’s functional and industry expertise with the latest SAP technologies, including the SAP HANA® platform and mobility and cloud solutions.  Supported by teams of professionals from Accenture and SAP, the centers provide clients with process-specific business solutions, thought leadership around existing and emerging SAP solution-based technology, and the industrialization of the resulting solution, content and delivery methods.

 

“The new Accenture Innovation Centers for SAP solutions will help our clients in the Asia-Pacific region draw as much value as possible from their investments in SAP solutions, accelerating business results, and contributing to their international competitiveness,” said Mark Willford, global managing director of SAP business for Accenture. “These innovation centers bring the best of Accenture’s global experience while enabling the localization of those solutions to meet the specific business challenges in the region.”

 

The centers will focus on developing solutions for a variety of industries and clients can experience and access all Accenture industry solutions at any of the locations. Some initial areas of focus for the new locations include:

 

• The Accenture Innovation Center for SAP solutions in Beijing is focused on innovating new solutions for the communications, high tech, utilities, and retail industries. Specifically in utilities, the center will explore solutions that can be applied to help address China’s growing energy demands.
• The Accenture Innovation Center for SAP solutions in Tokyo is focused on developing innovative solutions for high-tech companies as well as the electric power industry, including exploring smart-meter analysis, which is essential for enabling smart cities.
• The Accenture Innovation Center for SAP solutions in Singapore has a preliminary emphasis on the consumer goods, utilities, oil and gas, and public sector industries. The center also serves as a hub to support clients from neighboring countries including Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand.

 

Accenture’s network of innovation centers are co-located with and leverage the skills and expertise at locations across the Accenture Global Delivery Network, Accenture Technology Labs and the Accenture Global Talent and Innovation Network. The four new centers join Accenture’s global network of innovation centers in support of SAP solutions, based in locations including San Jose, Calif.; Chicago; New York; Toronto; Sophia Antipolis, France; and Bangalore, India.

 

About Accenture

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with approximately 246,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world’s most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. The company generated net revenues of US$25.5 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2011. Its home page is www.accenture.com.

 

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Microsoft Announces Worldwide Finalists for Imagine Cup 2012

Press release:

Microsoft Announces Worldwide Finalists for Imagine Cup 2012

May 23, 2012

More than 350 students from around the world invited to compete at the 10th anniversary Microsoft Imagine Cup Worldwide Finals.

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NEW YORK — May 23, 2012 — Marking the 10th anniversary of the Microsoft Imagine Cupstudent technology competition, Microsoft Corp. today announced the teams that will head to the Imagine Cup Worldwide Finals in July in Sydney, to showcase their innovative ideas for using technology to solve the world’s toughest problems. As the winners of regional, national and online Imagine Cup competitions, these students represent the future of technology innovation and entrepreneurialism. 

Student teams from 75 countries have advanced to the finals with projects that tackle humanitarian issues including health, accessibility, the environment, education and more. They will compete at the Worldwide Finals event, July 6–10, for $175,000 (U.S.) in cash prizes in categories including Software Design, Game Design: Phone, Game Design: Xbox/Windows, the Windows Phone Challenge sponsored by Nokia, the IT Challenge, the Windows Azure Challenge, the Kinect Fun Labs Challenge sponsored by Microsoft Studios, and the Windows Metro Style App Challenge sponsored by Windows. In addition, today Microsoft is announcing two new awards for the Worldwide Finalists that are sponsored by The Coca-Cola Co.: Environmental Sustainability and Health Awareness. All Worldwide Finalist teams are invited to apply for these awards. 

“During the past decade, students have taken the lead in adopting new technologies and championing social transformation,” said Moorthy Uppaluri, general manager, Academic Programs at Microsoft. “Ten years ago, we created Imagine Cup with the idea that students can change the world — and every year they continue to demonstrate their passion and creativity in creating technology that makes the world a better place.”

More on the Environmental Sustainability and Health Awareness Awards

Microsoft and Coca-Cola are also announcing a collaboration to encourage the next generation of young technologists and entrepreneurs to use their creativity and problem-solving skills to improve the environment and healthy living. Imagine Cup Worldwide Finalist teams whose projects target these topics will be eligible to compete for the new Imagine Cup 2012 Environmental Sustainability Award and Health Awareness Award, sponsored by Coca-Cola. 

“Given the scale and complexity of today’s issues, it’s challenging for one business or even one industry to make a difference alone,” said Guy Wollaert, chief technical officer, The Coca-Cola Co. “Coca-Cola’s support of Imagine Cup provides an additional venue for students to be recognized for their innovation in addressing the world’s toughest environmental and health-related issues.” 

The winning team for each award will be announced at the Imagine Cup Worldwide Finals in Sydney and each team will be awarded a cash prize of $10,000 (U.S.). More information can be found at http://www.imaginecup.com. 

A Decade of Imagine Cup

Imagine Cup has inspired a generation, with 1.65 million students from 190 countries participating in the competition during the past decade. Since last year, students from 29 new regions and countries, including Haiti, Rwanda, the Republic of Kosovo and Myanmar, have registered for the competition.

This year marks the first time that the Imagine Cup Worldwide Finals event will take place in Australia. 

During the first Imagine Cup in 2003, there were a little more than 1,000 registrants from 25 countries, with only 15 finalist teams competing at the Worldwide Finals in Barcelona. Tu Nguyen, from the University of Nebraska at Omaha, won first prize with a Pocket PC application designed to bridge the language gap between English-speaking waiters and Vietnamese-speaking chefs. Like many Imagine Cup alumni, Nguyen has gone on to become an entrepreneur and innovator; he was recognized in 2006 by the Midlands Business Journal as one of Omaha’s top 40 executives under 40 years of age, and is now chief technology officer of DocLanding, an online document management provider.

Dreaming Big and Creating Real-World Solutions: Imagine Cup Grants 

To extend the impact of Imagine Cup, last year Microsoft launched the Imagine Cup Grantsprogram, a three-year, $3 million investment by Microsoft to help students turn their ideas into reality. The first year of grant recipients were announced in January, including team Lifelens (United States), which developed a Windows Phone application that can detect the presence of malaria through a blood sample. The team is using the financial and in-kind support from the grant to develop its technology into a platform that uses Windows 8-based tablets and addresses other pathological diseases in addition to malaria.

“The Imagine Cup opens up students’ eyes to nontraditional technology applications that can address global issues and enable teams to brainstorm innovative ways to solve these problems,” said Wilson To, on behalf of the team. 

More information about the Lifelens project is available at http://lifelensproject.com/blog.

All the 2012 Imagine Cup Worldwide Finalists announced today will be eligible to apply for the Imagine Cup Grants program this year.

Imagine Cup 2012 Worldwide Finalists 

The 2012 Imagine Cup Worldwide Finalist teams are:

Imagine Cup 2012 Worldwide Finalists
Category	Country	Team Name
Software Design	Algeria	NakamaTeam
Software Design	Argentina	BoddyMusic
Software Design	Armenia	mLab
Software Design	Australia	StethoCloud
Software Design	Bahrain	FutureTorch
Software Design	Bangladesh	Engine
Software Design	Belgium	Make A Sign
Software Design	Bosnia and Herzegovina	SPU Team
Software Design	Brazil	Digital Mangue
Software Design	Bulgaria	K-Vision
Software Design	Canada	Greeni
Software Design	Chile	IntegraKINECT
Software Design	China	Xight
Software Design	Croatia	Team Spectrum
Software Design	Cyprus	BrightSight
Software Design	Czech Republic	JoyMind
Software Design	Dominican Republic	The Fellowship of the Ring
Software Design	Ecuador	Kany Warmys
Software Design	Egypt	Level Up
Software Design	Finland	Matalapaine
Software Design	France	CapStreet
Software Design	Georgia	Green Bytes
Software Design	Germany	Greenway
Software Design	Greece	Symbiosis
Software Design	India	The D Labs
Software Design	Indonesia	Malabar
Software Design	Iraq	Mirage Tech
Software Design	Ireland	DocTek Systems
Software Design	Italy	Italian Ingenium Team
Software Design	Ivory Coast	e-soft
Software Design	Japan	Coccolo
Software Design	Jordan	Dancing Pillow
Software Design	Kazakhstan	Etzoockee
Software Design	Korea	Let IT Bee
Software Design	Kuwait	The Code Breakers
Software Design	Lebanon	Cake
Software Design	Malaysia	The Rhapsody
Software Design	Malta	TDGS
Software Design	Mexico	ReImagine
Software Design	Morocco	Team Golden Drop
Software Design	New Zealand	Mobile Eyes
Software Design	Nigeria	Gravity
Software Design	Oman	Grawesome
Software Design	Pakistan	Celoks
Software Design	Palestinian Authorities	flyKIT
Software Design	Peru	Wake Up
Software Design	Philippines	Divided By Zero
Software Design	Poland	ARMED
Software Design	Portugal	wi-GO
Software Design	Puerto Rico	Think
Software Design	Qatar	Technology Lanterns
Software Design	Romania	IQube
Software Design	Russia	Bonjour Development
Software Design	Senegal	Sen Section
Software Design	Serbia	CatchCake
Software Design	Singapore	AlphaWaves
Software Design	Algeria	NakamaTeam
Software Design	Slovakia	Team OwNet
Software Design	Algeria	NakamaTeam
Software Design	Slovenia	Osmosis
Software Design	South Africa	Asclepius
Software Design	Spain	HealthConnect
Software Design	Sri Lanka	Team V360
Software Design	Taiwan	uCHAMPsys
Software Design	Thailand	Novitat
Software Design	Tunisia	Heroes come Back
Software Design	Turkey	Repharmers
Software Design	Uganda	cipher256
Software Design	Ukraine	Quadsquad
Software Design	United Arab Emirates	RevolUtion
Software Design	United Kingdom	Team EyeWorks
Software Design	United States	FlashFood
Software Design	Venezuela	Arbel
Software Design	Vietnam	GP3S
Game Design: Xbox/Windows	Belgium	Hotfix_Windows
Game Design: Xbox/Windows	Brazil	The Doers
Game Design: Xbox/Windows	China	xidianembed_6
Game Design: Xbox/Windows	France	Nano
Game Design: Xbox/Windows	Iceland	Radiant
Game Design: Xbox/Windows	Japan	Esperanza
Game Design: Xbox/Windows	Japan	Team Blossom
Game Design: Xbox/Windows	Portugal	Red Phoenix Studios
Game Design: Xbox/Windows	Thailand	TANG Thai
Game Design: Xbox/Windows	Ukraine	HammerBird
Game Design: Phone	Brazil	Monkey Pepper
Game Design: Phone	Czech Republic	Wicked Games
Game Design: Phone	France	Ecosia
Game Design: Phone	France	Swifteam
Game Design: Phone	Hungary	Turtle Games
Game Design: Phone	Indonesia	Org.Com mobile
Game Design: Phone	Korea	Gaon Nuri
Game Design: Phone	Lithuania	LevelUp
Game Design: Phone	Romania	AVe
Game Design: Phone	United States	Drexel Dragons
Windows Metro Style App Challenge	Brazil	Virtual Dreams Metro
Windows Metro Style App Challenge	Korea	TokTok
Windows Metro Style App Challenge	Ukraine	nLife
Windows Azure Challenge	Algeria	The Klein Team
Windows Azure Challenge	Brazil	Virtual Dreams Azure
Windows Azure Challenge	Romania	Complex
Windows Phone Challenge	Egypt	Vivid
Windows Phone Challenge	Finland	Aaltovation
Windows Phone Challenge	Poland	The Stack
IT Challenge	Egypt	Sherif Talaat
IT Challenge	Romania	Alexandru Ticlea
IT Challenge	Singapore	Joshua Sim
Kinect Fun Labs Challenge	To be announced in June	To be announced in June
Kinect Fun Labs Challenge	To be announced in June	To be announced in June
Kinect Fun Labs Challenge	To be announced in June	To be announced in June

More information about Imagine Cup is available at the Imagine Cup Virtual Pressroom and on the Imagine Cup blog.

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Accenture to Expand Scope and Capabilities of Innovation Centers to Develop New Solutions Based on SAP® Database Technology

May 14, 2012

Accenture to Expand Scope and Capabilities of Innovation Centers to Develop New Solutions Based on SAP® Database Technology

 

Becomes First SAP Partner to Make Significant Commitment and Investment in SAP HANA®

 

ORLANDO, Fla.; May 14, 2012 - Accenture (NYSE: ACN) is expanding the scope of its Innovation Centers for SAP® solutions to become the first global systems integrator (SI) to focus on accelerating the development and delivery of SAP’s real-time database solutions and services, the company announced today. The goal is to help clients rapidly leverage the new innovations in database technology that SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) has delivered with the introduction of the SAP HANA® platform. This move will enable organizations to capitalize on the strong potential that this fundamental shift in the role that the data layer presents for enterprise software solutions.

 

The announcement was made at the SAPPHIRE® NOW conference being held in Orlando, May 14 – 16, where Accenture is exhibiting in booth 2501.

 

"We’re ramping up the next phase of research and development in our Innovation Centers because we believe the new in-memory technology featured in SAP HANA can drive significant benefits for our clients," said Mark Willford, global managing director of SAP business for Accenture. "The rapid, easy and timely consumption of data represents a new frontier for unlocking the value of business applications and is key to the creation of new competitive advantage. With the tremendous performance and speed of SAP HANA, clients can take advantage of in-memory computing in a way that allows for real-time business modeling and hyperfast analytics processing across virtually any volume of structured and unstructured customer data. We’re pleased to be the first global SI to make a significant commitment to build on the new platform.”

 

As part of its commitment, Accenture will make a significant investment in creating a workforce of up to 1,000 professionals skilled in SAP database and technology solutions by the end of 2012 and a dedicated research and development (R&D) capability. Through this, it will not only develop new applications for the SAP database platform, but also offer a set of new tools and best practices developed specifically for this domain. Furthermore, Accenture plans to use its Innovation Centers as a solution and delivery channel for its clients and create a solution factory via its India locations.

 

"Accenture is one of our most important alliance partners and a top provider of SAP solutions, so we welcome the substantial investment they are making to build out a dedicated workforce in support of SAP database solutions," said Steve Lucas, executive vice president and global lead, Database and Technology, SAP. "Our customers tell us they plan to continue adopting solutions like SAP HANA. Given that Accenture has been investing with us from day one, we believe this announcement is great validation of our strategic direction for SAP HANA. Accenture's industry leadership, expertise and delivery capabilities make it the ideal partner to help drive the development and adoption of new solutions and business applications based on SAP’s real-time database platform.”

 

Together, Accenture and SAP intend to create a portfolio of client offerings to significantly improve performance of and investments in the lifecycle of data-layer implementations. The first solution culminating from this new investment is a real-time customer analytics solution based on the combination of Accenture’s Customer Insight (ACI) solution running on the SAP HANA platform with predictive analytics.

 

About Accenture

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with approximately 246,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries.  Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world’s most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments.  The company generated net revenues of US$25.5 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2011.  Its home page is www.accenture.com.

                                                                       

SAP, SAP HANA, SAPPHIRE and all SAP logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP AG in Germany and in several other countries.  All other product and service names mentioned are the trademarks of their respective companies.

Press Release : May 10, 2012

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HP Moves HP Cloud Services to Public Beta

Rich, growing partner ecosystem offers robust choice of cloud solutions

Topics:Technology and Innovation, Strategic Focus: Cloud

PALO ALTO, Calif., -- HP today made its first public cloud services available as a public beta.

Advancing the company’s Converged Cloud portfolio, HP Cloud Services deliver an open-source-based public cloud infrastructure with business-oriented features that enable developers, independent software vendors (ISVs) and enterprises of all sizes to build the next generation of web applications.

Starting today, HP’s first publicly available beta services, HP Cloud Compute, HP Cloud Object Storage and HP Cloud Content Delivery Network, will be offered through a pay-as-you-go model.

HP Cloud Services offer a public cloud infrastructure along with platform services and cloud solutions. Designed with OpenStack™ technology, the open-sourced-based architecture ensures no vendor lock-in, improves developer productivity, features a full stack of easy-to-use tools for faster time to code, provides access to a rich partner ecosystem, and is backed by personalized customer support.

HP’s full suite of public cloud services will enable developers to create the next generation of web services to be built, run and scaled on a global basis, backed with a broad selection of analytics, tools and services.

"Whether you are an independent developer, ISV or the CIO of a major organization, the priority is to design your applications for today’s cloud economy,” said Zorawar ‘Biri’ Singh, senior vice president and general manager, Cloud Services, HP. “We will continue to build, integrate and deploy developer-focused features, designed to support a world-class cloud that  enables our customers and partners to run and operate web services at scale, on a global basis.”

Nearly 40 companies have announced their support for HP Cloud Services, from Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) partners to storage, management and database providers. The rich partner ecosystem provides customers with rapid access to an expansive suite of integrated cloud solutions that offer new ways to become more agile and efficient. The partner network also provides a set of tools, best practices and support to help maximize productivity on the cloud.

This ecosystem of partners is a step along the path to an HP Cloud Services Marketplace, where customers will be able to access HP Cloud Services and partner solutions through a single account. With HP Cloud Services, customers will access new partners and markets.

Companies announcing support of HP’s pubic beta today include:

• Applications: Otopy, PXL, SendGrid
• Database: CloudOpt, EnterpriseDB, Xeround
• Development and testing:  SOASTA, Spirent
• Management: BitNami, CloudSoft,  enStratus, Kaavo, RightScale, ScaleXtreme, Smartscale Systems, Standing Cloud
• Mobile: FeedHenry, Kinvey
• Monitoring: New Relic
• PaaS: ActiveState, CloudBees, Corent Technology, CumuLogic, Engine Yard, Gigaspaces
• Security: Dome9, SecludIT
• Storage: CloudBerry Lab, Gladinet, Panzura, Riverbed Technology, SMEStorage, StorSimple,TwinStrata, Zmanda
• Technology: Opscode, Zuora

Pricing is available at http://hpcloud.com/pricing.

More information on HP Cloud Services can be found at HP’s Scaling the Cloud blog. Additional up-to-the-minute information can be found on Twitter @HPCloud and @HPNews.

HP’s premier client event, HP Discover, takes place June 4-7 in Las Vegas.

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Press Release : May 09, 2012

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HP Launches Consumer Notebook PCs Reflecting New Design Philosophy

Company also unveils web-connected e-All-in-One printer

Topics:Mobility, Technology and Innovation, ePrint

SHANGHAI -- HP today unveiled HP Pavilion notebook PCs that include enhanced features and reflect the company’s new HP Mosaic design approach.

The company also unveiled the HP Photosmart 5520 e-All-in-One printer, featuring HP wireless direct printing⁽¹⁾ and HP ePrint, enabling users to print from virtually anywhere.⁽²⁾

• For stylish on-the-go computing, the HP Pavilion m6 is the ideal balance of mobility, performance and entertainment wrapped in a sleek, brushed silver aluminum design.
• The redesigned HP Pavilion dv-series and g-series notebook PCs offer performance in a simple yet distinct and colorful design.
• For users that want to balance affordable printing and brilliant quality at home, the HP Photosmart 5520 e-All-in-One is a compact, web-connected all-in-one printer for the home.

The new HP Mosaic design approach, reflected in its new HP Pavilion notebooks, is an extension of the company’s MUSE (materials, usability, sensory appeal and experience) design philosophy.

The Mosaic design fuses together the multifaceted elements of MUSE, including rich colors, premium materials and purposeful shapes, to form one comprehensive design language that spans the consumer notebook portfolio. Similar to a mosaic art piece, each HP notebook series represents a small piece of the canvas that, when combined, builds into a beautiful picture of the HP product family.

“Featuring precise lines and tapered profiles, the new HP Pavilion notebook portfolio evokes dynamic energy and movement,” said Stacy Wolff, vice president, Design, Personal Systems Group, HP. “These notebooks utilize premium materials that are rich to the eye and to the touch, delivering unique sensory experiences.”

HP Pavilion m6—sized for life on the go

With a large display packed into a super-slim design, the HP Pavilion m6 is the notebook users will want with them all day. Movies and games come to life on the15.6-inch diagonal LED backlit high-definition⁽³⁾ (HD) BrightView display, and rich audio is made possible with Beats Audio™, dual speakers and subwoofer.

The brushed-aluminum HP Pavilion m6 can achieve up to eight hours of battery life⁽⁴⁾ and features the latest Intel and AMD processors, an optional backlit keyboard and discrete graphics for running the most demanding tasks without pauses or interruptions.

The HP Pavilion m6 is also loaded with HP innovations. HP CoolSense technology automatically adjusts performance and internal fan settings for a noticeably cooler PC, and HP ProtectSmart locks the hard drive to protect photos, music and memories in case the notebook is accidentally dropped. Optional HP SimplePass remembers passwords and provides easy access to online accounts with the swipe of a finger, and the HP TrueVision HD Webcam provides brighter and cleaner HD⁽³⁾ images.

HP Pavilion dv-series notebook PCs—powerful yet graceful

With a tapered chassis, slim top view and infinity waterfall edge—all inspired by kinetic energy—the new HP Pavilion dv6 and dv7 boast a metal finish, and the HP Pavilion dv4 is available in black licorice, linen white and carmine red.

Coupled with a soft-touch panel at the base of the display cover, the sleek HP Pavilion dv6 and dv7 conform comfortably to the hand, making the notebooks easy to hold.

A speaker bar integrated into the display enhances the HP dv-series’ Beats Audio experience, projecting audio directly toward the user.

The HP Pavilion dv6 and dv7 also include HP CoolSense, HP ProtectSmart, HP TrueVision HD Webcam and HP SimplePass.

Optional NVIDIA GeForce notebook graphics processing units also are available on the HP Pavilion dv line and help deliver amazing visual gaming and multimedia experiences.

HP Pavilion g-series notebook PCs—simple yet distinct

The redesigned HP Pavilion g6 and g7 feature curved, beveled edges with elements of precision. A bowl-shape keyboard deck and textured touchpad further define the series’ distinct form.

The HP Pavilion g-series features audio that is enhanced with both design and functional elements. A chrome strip bordering the speaker serves as a visual cue for audio, while the exposed speaker bar provides great sound projection.

The HP Pavilion g-series will be available in ruby red, linen white, sparkling black, winter blue and bright purple.

HP Photosmart 5520 e-All-in-One—print from any web-connected device

The HP Photosmart 5520 e-All-in-One enables users to print from wireless-enabled mobile devices—without a network—using HP wireless direct printing.⁽¹⁾ It also offers the latest web-connected printing technologies, such as print apps⁽⁵⁾ from DreamWorks and Coupons.com, and HP ePrint, which enables users to print from virtually anywhere.⁽²⁾

The printer has four individual ink cartridges that produce lab-quality photos, and it enables everyday documents to be scanned directly to email without a PC.⁽⁶⁾ ENERGY STAR® qualified, the HP Photosmart 5520 e-All-in-One helps conserve resources with automatic two-sided printing and copying.

Pricing and availability⁽⁷⁾

• HP Pavilion m6 will be available this summer at Best Buy, BestBuy.com and HP Direct with pricing to be determined.
• HP Pavilion dv4, dv6 and dv7 are expected to be available in the United States on June 20 with starting prices of $549.99, $549.99 and $799.99, respectively.
• HP Pavilion g6 and g7 are expected to be available in the United States on July 25 with starting prices of $449.99 and $499.99, respectively.
• The Photosmart 5520 e-All-in-One is expected to be available in the United States in June for $99.

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⁽¹⁾ Not available on all printers. Mobile device must be wireless-enabled. Printer must be HP ePrint-enabled. Feature may require driver or apps, available for download at www.hp.com/go/eprintcenter.

⁽²⁾ Requires an internet connection to the printer. Feature works with any connected internet- and email-capable device. Requires HP Web Services Account Registration. Print times may vary. A list of supported documents and image types is available at www.hp.com/go/eprintcenter. Additional solutions are available at www.hp.com/go/mobile-printing-solutions.

⁽³⁾ HD content required to view HD images.

⁽⁴⁾ Battery life will vary depending on the product model, configuration, loaded applications, features, use, wireless functionality and power-management settings. The maximum capacity of the battery will naturally decrease with time and usage. Additional details are available at MobileMark07 battery benchmark.

⁽⁵⁾ Requires a wireless access point and an internet connection to the printer. Services may require registration. Availability varies by printer device and settings, country, language and agreements. Details are available at www.hp.com/go/ePrintCenter.

⁽⁶⁾ Compatible with most popular email services. Additional information is available atwww.hp.com/go/eprintcenter.

⁽⁷⁾ Estimated U.S. street prices. Actual prices may vary.