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HP buying 3Com for $2.7B; Intel says shape-shifting robots closer to reality

By Network World Staff, Network World, 11/12/2009
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HP plans to acquire 3Com for $2.7 billion, 30 years after Ethernet creator Robert Metcalfe co-founded the company. The acquisition will fill out HP's data center product portfolio with switches, routers and security products, plus expand its presence in China. Also, scientists at Intel and Carnegie Mellon University are using distributed computing and robotics to make shape shifting a reality. In essence, they're working to take millions of millimeter-sized robots and enable them, through software and electromagnetic forces, to take on various shapes and sizes. (4:56)

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