Dell bows out of 3Par war

Hewlett-Packard on Thursday officially won storage vendor 3Par after Dell declined to match a $33 a share, or $2.4 billion, bid, reveals CNet News.

Dell's statement on the matter ended a wild bidding war that started at $18 a share for 3Par. Dell said in a statement that it will get a $72 million break-up fee. The company added that its final offer was for $32 a share.

The 3Par bidding war reflected the animosity between two fierce rivals, Dell and HP, and the fact that there aren't many enterprise storage players to buy.

Electronics giant HP has joined the world's second-largest memory chipmaker, Hynix, to manufacture a novel member of the electronics family, says the BBC.

The deal will see "memristors" - first demonstrated by HP in 2006 - mass produced for the first time.

Memristors promise significantly greater memory storage, requiring less energy and space, and may eventually also be employed in processors.

Symantec has teamed up with rapper Snoop Dogg to introduce a cybercrime rap contest, writes The Register.

Participants are invited to bust some rhymes on the subject of malware, hacking and botnets, for the chance to win an all expenses paid trip to LA to attend a Snoop gig and meet his people, if not the rapper himself.

Winners get a Toshiba laptop outfitted with Norton Internet Security 2011. Entry is only open to US residents.

Wireless mobile device charging is set to get easier after the Wireless Power Consortium today unveiled Qi 1.0, a standard enabling interoperability for wireless inductive charging devices, reports Computing.co.uk.

Qi provides for “a method of contactless power transfer from a base station to a mobile device, which is based on near field magnetic induction between coils”, according to the standards document available on the consortium Web site.

Charging devices would transfer about 5W of power and operate in the 110-205kHz frequency range. The standard allows support for two methods of placing the mobile device on the surface of the base station.