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As much as partners want predictability and reliability from their vendors, Mark Hurd says vendors also want the same from their partners. The Hewlett Packard Co. (Nasdaq: HPQ) CEO went about fulfilling his half of the bargain in his keynote Tuesday at HP’s Americas Partner conference, promising partners more profitability if they dive deeper into HP’s product portfolio.

An outage hit BlackBerry smartphone service in the Americas on Tuesday night, operator Research In Motion confirmed via its support service. The outage is the second to affect users in less than a week.

The Americas’ SAP Users’ Group announced its new CEO on Tuesday, nearly one year after parting ways with its previous chief.

The US Justice Department has urged a New York court to reject a deal that would allow internet company Google to publish millions of books online. The deal raised copyright and anti-trust issues, the department said, and should be rejected in its current form.