9 posts and columns on HPQ

Sun's Senior VP of North American Sales Now HP’s Senior VP of North American Sales

in News on October 1, 2009 at 3:00 pm PT

Randy Seidl’s bio is still live on the Sun Microsystems Web site, but the exec who once oversaw the company’s North American sales has new digs. At Hewlett-Packard.
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Sun’s Senior VP of North American Sales Now HP’s Senior VP of North American Sales

in News on October 1, 2009 at 3:00 pm PT

Randy Seidl’s bio is still live on the Sun Microsystems Web site, but the exec who once oversaw the company’s North American sales has new digs. At Hewlett-Packard.
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Hewlett-Packard: Scattered Patches of Brightness

in News on August 18, 2009 at 1:33 pm PT

Hewlett-Packard posted its quarterly financials Tuesday afternoon and they were slightly better than expected, driven by a two percent increase in PC shipments. Quarterly profit fell 19 percent to $1.64 billion, or 67 cents a share, on revenue of $27.45 billion. But excluding one-time items, HP earned $2.2 billion, or 91 cents a share, a penny better than analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters had forecast. And the company seems confident of its performance going forward.
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An Hour and 14 Minutes on Apple.com? Wow. Try Spending That on Dell’s Web Site Without Falling Asleep.

in News on July 1, 2009 at 5:20 am PT

Here’s an interesting metric: Apple’s Web site last month drew more than 55.7 million unique visitors, more than the site of any other computer hardware manufacturer, according to a report released this week by Nielsen Online. The number of visitors was more than double that of Hewlett-Packard, which drew 21.9 million people, and triple Dell’s, which drew 16.8 million.
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HP Announces PC-Free Printer

in News on June 22, 2009 at 10:00 am PT

Hewlett-Packard ushered in a new paradigm for printing today, one absent the PC. This morning the company announced a wireless touchscreen printer that will allow users to print documents from the Web without ever using a PC or browser.
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So Much for Those Better-Than-Expected HP Earnings [UPDATED]

in News on May 19, 2009 at 2:13 pm PT

Hewlett-Packard’s second-quarter financials may have been in line with forecasts, but they were troubling nonetheless. A number of analysts predicted that the company might report better-than-expected earnings. Sadly, it did not.
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Cisco to Rivals: Tonight You Sleep in Hell!

in News on March 16, 2009 at 11:06 am PT

Cisco has finally crossed the Rubicon. Long a partner to the big server makers, the networking equipment giant today became a competitor, announcing an aggressive push into the server market. No longer content to peddle switches and routers alone, Cisco is now selling a full-blown data center solution.
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Points Off for Windows?

in News on March 4, 2009 at 10:00 am PT

Brave guy, Yair Reiner, for singlehandedly assailing the “Macs are more expensive” myth (or truism, depending on your particular world view). In a research note on Apple’s new desktops, the Oppenheimer analyst compared, spec-by-spec, the new iMac, Dell’s XPS One 24 and Hewlett-Packard’s TouchSmart IQ800t and concluded that the iMac offers a better value.
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HP CEO Mark Hurd's Memo to the Troops on Pay Cuts

in News on February 19, 2009 at 5:42 am PT

Here is the letter Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd broadcast to employees Wednesday explaining the company’s stunning reversal in outlook for the fiscal year and its plans to reduce pay and benefits across the board. “In an environment like this, there’s no margin for error and no tolerance for inaction,” he wrote.
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