New VC Marc Andreessen joins HP board
Entrepreneur and angel investor Marc Andreessen, who recently became a fully-fledged venture capitalist with the launch of his firm Andreessen Horowitz, has joined the board of directors at computer maker Hewlett Packard.
HP likes to stay connected with the venture and startup communities, so Andreessen isn’t… Continue Reading
HP slashes ex-EDS salaries up to 47 percent: “It’s a slap in the face”
Before the World Wide Web, working for Ross Perot’s IT outsourcing firm EDS was one of the most prized and prestigious jobs in tech. EDS, which Perot founded in 1962, defined the outsourcing business and made Perot a hero to both businessmen and techies.
Perot resigned… Continue Reading
Want to explore the Time 100? There’s an (AIR) app for that
In case you didn’t get enough of Time’s list of the 100 most influential people (which this year includes such highlights as Ashton Kutcher writing about Twitter’s founders, and singer Rick Astley writing about 4chan creator Moot), you no longer have to settle for just… Continue Reading
Truce: Google and Microsoft join forces for an open white space spectrum
Google and Microsoft are perhaps the Internet’s two most fierce rivals. But that doesn’t mean they can’t work together from time to time. That’s what they’re doing to make it possible for consumers to take advantage of the TV white space spectrum, according to the… Continue Reading
Roundup: Zune prunes, tech gets part of the stimulus, Sprint cuts a lot of jobs and more
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Zune prunes — Microsoft’s Zune portable media player saw its revenue decrease by over $100 million, or 54 percent, in the fourth quarter of 2008. Microsoft blames price cuts on the 30 gig model (you know, the one that had the massive failure)… Continue Reading
HP’s outlook for next year unchanged despite tough economy
Hewlett-Packard reported its fourth fiscal quarter earnings this afternoon for the quarter ended Oct. 31 that were consistent with the company’s upbeat preliminary results. The surprising thing is that the world’s biggest information technology company left its guidance for the first quarter and the coming… Continue Reading
HP launches its thinnest, lightest, and most fashionable netbook computers
Hewlett-Packard is announcing today three new models in the HP MIni 1000 family that are its thinnest and lightest entries in the growing category of computers known as “netbooks.” One of them, a colorful version created by fashion designer Vivienne Tam, could easily be mistaken… Continue Reading
The Down Jones: Dow crashes below 10,000 — Nasdaq doing even worse
The Dow Jones Industrial Average has not closed below 10,000 since 2004. Today it might. Well below. As of a little past 9 AM PST, the Dow is down just over 470 points to 9,854.59. The market is seeing a continuation of the bloodbath it… Continue Reading
HP makes a $360 million acquisition in storage
Storage. Everyone always wants more of it, and going forward that demand will only increase. Likely knowing that, today, computer maker Hewlett-Packard made a purchase to bolster its storage offerings: A $360 million cash deal to buy LeftHand Networks.
LeftHand Networks is a company that allows… Continue Reading
HP announces an (almost) unbelievable blogger campaign
HP, one of the country’s biggest computer companies, is boasting that it boosted its PC sales by 10 percent in May after it leveraged the blogging community to promote the launch of one of its computer systems.
I’d have shrugged off this announcement, had it not… Continue Reading
Apple’s North American notebook market share surges to double digits
Apple notebook computers which include the MacBook, the MacBook Pro and the MacBook Air are hot items. How hot? Their North American market share grew 60 percent in the second quarter of 2008 as compared to the same quarter last year, according to a report… Continue Reading
Is Hollywood forming DECE to wage a digital content war against Apple?
Digital rights management (DRM), for better or worse, is still the cornerstone of digital content. But the name has such a negative connotation now that major players in the entertainment and electronics industry appear to be trying to change it.
According to Reuters, some of the… Continue Reading
HP, Intel and Yahoo create cloud computing research centers
Hewlett Packard, Intel and Yahoo today announced a cloud computing research project to promote the use of computing using centralized servers in the Internet “cloud.”
The companies will create big data centers that researchers can tap for internet-wide research. The initiative will promote collaboration among industry,… Continue Reading
Roundup: HP courts EDS, YouTube dominates videos, Apple signs up HBO
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Hewlett-Packard confirmed today that it is in advanced talks to buy EDS — It wants to acquire the data center outsourcing service company for $12 billion to $13 billion, well above the company’s current value of $9.5 billion, according to the Wall Street… Continue Reading