Whoops, HP Just Bought Another Company

Meet Hiflex, a Germany-based printing software outfit that for one reason or another caught Hewlett-Packard’s eye.
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HP Memo Spanks Columbia Researchers Over Flaming Printers Flap

No, a hacked HP printer can’t burn down your house or office, but HP has a fix in the works anyway.
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Dear Yahoo Board: C'mon, Get On With It (A CEO by Tomorrow Would Be Good)

BoomTown’s got nothing, which is not something I like to say very much. I am talking about the Yahoo CEO search, which is either being done by the Internet giant’s board in such elegant secrecy and with such amazing stealth that it is getting by everyone. That or it’s business as usual for the Yahoo board, which so far has never met a challenge for the company it could not drag out painfully and with great public dithering.