<p><br />Symantec said on Wednesday, that HP will ship all the personal computers it sells to consumers with software that offers subscription to an Internet-based PC backup service.<br /><br />They will be offered a free one-month trial to the Web-based product, Norton Online Backup, followed by an annual subscription for $50.<br /><br />The backup service is one of several so-called cloud computing products the company it has introduced over the past year in a bid to stem slowing sales growth. Analysts forecast that the emerging field of cloud computing will be among the fastest growing areas in technology over the coming years. It refers to the use of the web to access services from remote data centers.</p>
<p><br />Symantec said on Wednesday, that HP will ship all the personal computers it sells to consumers with software that offers subscription to an Internet-based PC backup service.<br /><br />They will be offered a free one-month trial to the Web-based product, Norton Online Backup, followed by an annual subscription for $50.<br /><br />The backup service is one of several so-called cloud computing products the company it has introduced over the past year in a bid to stem slowing sales growth. Analysts forecast that the emerging field of cloud computing will be among the fastest growing areas in technology over the coming years. It refers to the use of the web to access services from remote data centers.</p>