Hewlett-Packard Co, the world's biggest PC maker, has announced an agreement Symantec Corp, to distribute it's Norton Online Backup services. With this move, Symantec is looking to expand its consumer business beyond its line of Norton security products. In a release dated June 11, Symantec said that starting in September,  HP will ship all of it's consumer desktop and notebook PCs with a trial subscription to Symantec's internet-based PC backup service, Norton Online Backup. Customers will be offered a free 30-day trial version of Norton Online Backup that will be pre-installed on their PCs. The service can be used to back up as … [Read more...]