As I noted in my post on the subject earlier in the week, CML shares had rallied more than 180% since mid-July, driven in part by takeover chatter following the bidding war between Dell and Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) for 3Par , another mid-sized storage company.

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Meanwhile, at a tech conference in Florida, there was reason for a little optimism from the second-largest computer company, Hewlett-Packard (nyse: HPQ - news - people ).

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Fellow blue chip technology companies Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HPQ), International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM), and Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) have annual dividend yields of 2%, 1.7%, and 1.5%, respectively.

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International Business Machines ( IBM) is the company Hewlett Packard ( HPQ) secretly wants to be, one where high-margin service and software businesses support huge but slow-growing (at best) hardware divisions.

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But nothing is official until Hewlett-Packard (nyse: HPQ - news - people ), the world's largest technology company, reports fiscal first-quarter results late Tuesday.

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