Technology Roundup (MSFT, CSCO, ORCL, HPQ, GOOG, AAPL)

Stocks have drifted higher today despite worse than expected manufacturing numbers which were released this morning. Many observers are pointing to the Fed's Permanent Open Market Operation (POMO). Large cap technology stocks are higher nearly across the board. Here is a mid-day roundup of the tech complex with around 4 hours left in the trading day. Microsoft MSFT +0.24% Cisco CSCO +1.60% Oracle ORCL +0.79% Hewlett-Packard HPQ +1.60% Google GOOG +0.10% Apple AAPL +0.62%