In 2008, HP reshuffled its business line notebooks.

* In February 2008, HP Enterprise Services signed a US $ 1. 3 billion contract with the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore, one of the largest IT projects ever undertaken in Asia.

HP stopped selling PA-RISC-based HP 9000 systems at the end of 2008 but will support servers running PA-RISC chips until 2013.

In 2008, HP has contributed the AdvFS to the open source community.

* In April 2008, researchers at HP Labs announced the creation of a working memristor: a fourth basic passive circuit element whose existence had previously only been theorized.

* Virtualization becomes a key feature of operating systems, as exemplified by Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 or HP Integrity Virtual Machines in HP-UX.

* Hewlett-Packard withdrew its last HP 9000 PA-RISC based desktop products from the market in January, 2008.

It was reported on April 30, 2008, that a working memristor had been developed by a team at HP Labs led by scientist R. Stanley Williams.

Wilson earned his 500th win of his coaching career when the San Jose Sharks beat the Nashville Predators 4 – 3 on February 9, 2008, at HP Pavilion at San Jose.

Some patches had been built and tested inside HP, but lacked customer base testing by the end of 2008.

* HP – until 2008 most call centre activities were based in the Bellfield Office Park, but the majority of the employees moved to the new HP Ireland HQ in Leixlip.

In 2008, HP modified the design so that new production runs contain an ARM processor which runs an emulated version of previous chips.

HP 9000 finally reached end of sales life in 2008, being superseded by the HP Integrity ( Itanium ) server platform running HP-UX.

On 30 April 2008, HP announced end of sales for the HP 9000.

The last order date for HP 9000 systems was 31 December 2008 and the last ship date was 1 April 2009.

In early April 2008 the schoolroom-use oriented, ultra-portable HP 2133 Mini-Note PC family debuted with an entirely VIA-based, 1. 0, 1. 2 and 1. 6 GHz C7-M processor portfolio, where the lowest speed model is optimized for running an SSD-based 4GB Linux distribution with a sub $ 500 price tag, while the middle tier carries Windows XP and the top model comes with Windows Vista Business, factory default.

* HP 20b — 2008 financial calculator with RPN.

On March 20, 2008, at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, California, Ward defeated Rubin Williams by seventh round TKO.

On March 29, 2008, Le defeated a long time MMA veteran Frank Shamrock in a fight co-promoted by Strikeforce and EliteXC at the HP Pavilion in San Jose.

* In July 2008, HP started shipping Splashtop on its Voodoo notebooks, calling it " Instant On Solution ( IOS ).

In 2008, the graphics were again relaunched, using the style introduced in 2007 and a new colour scheme.

In this case the specific name marinus changes to marina in order to conform with the rules of gender agreement as set out by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature changing the binomial name from Bufo marinus to Rhinella marina ; the binomial Rhinella marinus was subsequently introduced as a synonym through misspelling by Pramuk, Robertson, Sites, and Noonan ( 2008 ).

The Australian Government has introduced legislation that requires ISP's to " restrict access to age restricted content ( commercial MA15 + content and R18 + content ) either hosted in Australia or provided from Australia " that was due to commence from 20 January 2008, known as Cleanfeed.

In October 2008 TfL introduced a new colour scheme to the vehicles, using the blue, white and green of the routes ' symbol on TfL maps, to distinguish the trams from its buses operating in the area.

In South Australia, on 30 July 2008 the government introduced legislation to scrap parts of its double jeopardy law.

In Tasmania, on 19 August 2008, amendments were introduced in to allow retrial in serious cases, if there is " fresh and compelling " evidence.

* 2008: Subaru introduced the first horizontally opposed diesel engine to be fitted to a passenger car.

First introduced at AirVenture 2008, the Switchblade is to utilize a single Wankel rotary engine and ducted fan to keep the propeller out of harm's way on the ground.

The word " forest " comes from Middle English forest, from Old French forest ( also forès ) " forest, vast expanse covered by trees "; first introduced in English as the word for wild land set aside for hunting without the necessity in definition for the existence of trees ( James 1981 ; Muir 2000, 2008 ).

In 2008, Foster's was introduced with a widget called a " scuba " placed into the can to ensure good mixing.

However, in late June 2008, the Prime Minister, Xanana Gusmão, introduced a proposed gun law to Parliament for " urgent debate ", pushing back scheduled budgetary discussions.

Windows Server 2008 builds on the technological and security advances first introduced with Windows Vista, and is significantly more modular than its predecessor, Windows Server 2003.

Chelsy also accompanied Harry to the wedding of Harry's cousin, Peter Phillips to Autumn Kelly in May 2008, where she was introduced to the Queen for the first time.

In November 2008, a subway train decorated in IKEA style was introduced in Novosibirsk, Russia.

In October 2008, Sine Nomine Associates introduced OpenSolaris on System z.

The States of Jersey introduced a goods and services tax ( GST ) in 2008.

The people hit the hardest by the new GST will be the people on the lowest incomes, however, to try to prevent islanders living below the poverty line, the States of Jersey introduced an Income Support service in January 2008.

In 2008 Vodacom Lesotho introduced its new partnership with Vodafone.

However, the tax cuts introduced in 2008 may undermine the favorable fiscal position.

Though the Millenia ( and its Miller-type V6 engine ) were discontinued in 2002, the company has recently introduced a much smaller Miller-cycle four-cylinder engine for use in itsDemio starting in 2008.

In 2008, the Phillies introduced an alternate, cream-colored uniform during home day games in tribute to their 125th anniversary.

A different blue cap was introduced in 2008 as part of the alternate home uniform for day games, a throwback to the late 1940s.

In 2008, Sedgewick introduced a simpler version of the red – black tree called the left-leaning red-black tree by eliminating a previously unspecified degree of freedom in the implementation.

The Gendarmerie may call upon the assistance of the Municipal Police in cases of major crime or national security, and ( following revised regulations for both corps introduced by the Government of San Marino in 2008 ) may also call upon soldiers and border guards of the Fortress Guards Corps, in their secondary role as ' Criminal Police Officers '.

The company provides over 100 video and over 78 audio channels, and in 2008 introduced its first HD video channel.