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- News to know: Workday; Windows Home Server; Hydrogen data centers
- Notable headlines:Dan Farber: Workday unveils Financials and Work Tags. Dennis Howlett: Workday financials: accounting isn't real.Christopher Dawson: Gmail use grows on college campuses.NYT: Hewlett Introduces a Web Feature to Make Document Printing Mobile.Mary Jo Foley: Windows Home Server won’t launch on August 27. A Microsoft Code Name a Day: Ibiza.Dan...
- Blog posts 2007-08-20
- News to know: Big Blue chips; Zimbra; Apple's green missive; ActiveX bugs
- Notable headlines: IBM puts vacuum spaces in chips. Gallery right. Video. Russell Shaw: Google-compatible Phone Interface platform described in Patent app. David Berlind: Solving the Web app’s ‘offline problem’: How Zimbra did it and others will follow. Gallery. ...
- Blog posts 2007-05-03
- Chinese New Year beefs up HP inventory
- As expected, Hewlett-Packards inventory levels were a hot topic last night on the companys earnings conference call. What wasnt expected was the reason why inventory levels were higher. It was assumed that a buildup of product to get ready for the Vista launch was...
- Blog posts 2007-02-21
- Do consumables (notably ink) matter to IT departments?
- Kodak released an inkjet printer line that aims to cut ink costs. Kodaks argument: Buy our printers and save money on ink. Kodak is making a total cost of ownership argument and its one that resonates to anyone that spends a...
- Blog posts 2007-02-07
- Interview: ProCurve chief downplays HP connection in enterprise vision launch
- Hewlett-Packards ProCurve Networking, the second largest enterprise network equipment vendor, recently announce its vision for the next five years: Adaptive Networks. I met with John McHugh VP and general manager of ProCurve Networking. This HP business has been growing at about 25 per cent per year over the past five...
- Blog posts 2007-02-05
- IT Consolidation: The ultimate less is more -- or how to get a grip of your assets
- Read a transcript of the podcast.Broadly dispersed datacenters are a huge and growing expense to enterprises -- yet the demands for more applications delivered fast and reliably is mounting. Can enterprises have it both ways: Fewer datacenters and better performance? Can they cut operating costs in doing so, and protect...
- Blog posts 2006-12-13
- HP 2008 outlook on target
- Hewlett-Packards 2008 profit and revenue outlook are roughly in line with Wall Streets guesswork. Here are the numbers CFO Bob Wayman gave at HPs analyst meeting:Fiscal 2008 earnings:Low-end earnings projection: $2.78 per share.Mid-point earnings projection: $2.88.High-end earnings projection: $2.98.Thomson Financial estimate: $2.88.2008 Revenue: Low-end revenue projection: $100.9 billion.Mid-point revenue projection:...
- Blog posts 2006-12-12
- Dunn, others to be indicted in HP privacy scandal
- News.coms Greg Sandoval reports: Hewlett-Packards embattled former chairman Patricia Dunn and four others involved in HPs spying campaign will be indicted Wednesday by California Attorney General Bill Lockyer, according to published news reports. The others expected to be indicted are Kevin T. Hunsaker, HPs former senior lawyer; Ronald...
- Blog posts 2006-10-04
- Video: Dunn defends herself and politicians lash out at HP
- We have video from this mornings hearing in which politicians lash out at HP, and many of the witnesses exercise their Fifth Amendment rights, refusing to answer questions from the Congressional subcommittee. Former Chairwoman Patty Dunn attempts to paint herself as a victim of untrustworthy elements inside and outside the...
- Blog posts 2006-09-28
- Just when you thought HP's PatriciaGate couldn't get worse, it does
- It's hurricane season at HP. Groklaw's Pamela Jones writes: The HP story just grew again. This is the worst yet. Now it's being reported in the New York Times in an article titled Hewlett Review Is Said to Detail Deeper Spying [sub and cookies req'd] that pretexting...
- Blog posts 2006-09-18
- HP revels in Fiorina's vision, Hurd's discipline
- HP revels in Fiorina's vision, Hurd's disciplineInnovation is the key...Mark Hurd doesn't know how to innovate. He knows how to lower the bottom line by cutting cost (ie. handing out pink slips). Sometime this is an ugly need. Publicly traded companies are in the business of satisfying shareholders...
- Discussion threads 2006-08-28
- My Mama Told Me...You Better Shop Around
- So the school year is coming to a close, budgets are being finalized for the coming year, and you actually have a little bit of money to think about spending. It's time to abandon brand loyalty at this point and take advantage of every deal you can find before budgets...
- Blog posts 2006-06-09
- Why convergence marketing is suffering from "domain poisoning"
- I have this theory about folks who are new to technology, don't know much about a tech company, but maybe see an ad or get word-of-mouth recommendations.More than a few such folks are liable to mis-spell the name of the vendor or service and give up out of a...
- Blog posts 2006-03-09
- Is retail right for Dell?
- Is retail right for Dell?The Dell nameHere is a company operating on name alone. It shows that all you need is a good brand name and you can hold on for years just on eroding reputation. Dell is quickly losing relevence but is still a great name. Declining quality, tech...
- Discussion threads 2005-11-29
- The future of the Internet - What role for developing countries?
- The big showdown between the US and the UN never materialized and the US' ICANN retains control over core Internet systems, but the demands of the developing world - and the concerns about putting internet control in the hands of governments with strong censorship leanings - is ...
- Blog posts 2005-11-18
- Carrion call -HP herd thundering toward Buffalo Jump
- Carrion call -HP herd thundering toward Buffalo JumpSo HP = DECDEC shot itself in the foot when it forced customers from BSD Ultrix on MIPS machines to OSF on Alpha. There was NO MIGRATION PATH, just throw away the old and sign up for the new. If you force people...
- Discussion threads 2005-07-20
- Carrion call -HP herd thundering toward Buffalo Jump
- When you look at HP today, it's hard not to see DEC - Digital Equipment Corporation. Both companies made their reputations by making great products and providing lots of support for the academic and research communities developing the software that later drove sales. DEC started to die as soon as...
- Blog posts 2005-07-20
- Top corporate citizens: Cummins, Green Mountain, St Paul Travelers, Nuveen Investments, Intel
- Business Ethics magazine published a list of 100 best corporate citizens. The US companies were evaluated on shareholders, community, minorities and women, employees, environment, human rights, governance and customers. Among tech companies, Intel and HP made it to the top 10 list for 2005.CumminsGreen Mountain Coffee RoastersSt Paul TravelersNuveen InvestmentsIntelWells...
- Blog posts 2005-06-22
- Hefty pay package for HP's new CEO
- Hefty pay package for HP's new CEOGreat news!This is great news. Hurd's understated management style and desire to be in closecontact with employees is the perfect antidoteto what HP contended with in its last CEO.It sounds like a win-win situation for employees, customers and stockholders alike.He's likely to be...
- Discussion threads 2005-03-29
- Linux works for charities
- Linux works for charitiesIt works for everyone except evil monopolies.Luckily, the world stopped listening to the greedy M$hills in the US.Uh huh, trying to copy Microsft, again...Nothing new here folks, move along...Where Linux truely shinesThis recycling of computer "junk" is very easy with Linux. This makes Linux the choice of...
- Discussion threads 2004-09-16
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