HP facing a tough earnings test today; AT&T, IHG launch two new telepresence rooms

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> Hewlett-Packard Co must convince Wall Street it can reverse a string of disappointing results, weather a drought in technology spending and deliver growth again when it reports earnings this afternoon. Article

> Three months after America's first chief technology officer recommended that the federal government move as much of its IT infrastructure to the cloud as possible in order to save a few billion dollars, cloud provider Amazon says it has just such a service ready to roll. Amazon announced today the launch of GovCloud, a "region" within its Amazon Web Services aimed specifically at U.S. government agencies and their security needs. Article

> AT&T and IHG (InterContinental Hotels Group) announced today the launch of two new Telepresence rooms located at IHG's corporate offices in Atlanta and London.  IHG expects the deployment of these rooms to increase regional collaboration, increase employee productivity and in turn allow employees to make decisions faster and more efficiently. Release

And finally... A car thief who inadvertently scooped up a minivan with two kids and a poodle inside dropped the kids--and the car--at their home in Queens after the children scolded him for trying to raid the change tray. Article