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Attorney general: No evidence implicating Hurd

Attorney general: No evidence implicating HurdCalif AG Backing DownThis is a little fishy. Yesterday's Washington Post story CNET referenced cited email excerpts where both Dunn and HP's Chief Ethics Officer Kevin Hunsaker showed Mr. Hurd's approval http://www.iwantmyess.com/?p=104Hunsaker's email reply to Dunn about the bogus product specs was "FYI, I spoke...

Tags: CA DA, e-mail, California AG

Discussion threads 2006-09-22

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California governor: Silicon Valley should go to Germany

After more than a hundred years of talk about the Pacific Rim economic opportunities for California, Silicon Valley and other California businesses are firmly focused on the west rather than the east. But Thursday morning California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will be at Intel's HQ in the heart of Silicon Valley...

Tags: California, CeBit, Transportation, Strategy, Corporate Communications, Management, Marketing, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-10-01

Promises, promises: A look at Waste Management's case against SAP

Promises, promises: A look at Waste Management's case against SAPBetter than the other reason to give your garbage man's Daughter a computerBolivia and Amar Maha Roma; spending his new life on his personnal Land Expansion off the Coast of India. It is beautiful there from the video I've seen, India....

Tags: Sales strategy, Hardware upgrade, Sales force management, SAP AG, Waste Management

Discussion threads 2008-04-01

A change that's headed right for Green Tech Industrial Park

We live in an era of change, you and I. Some unprecedented. Never before has the world shared a communications technooogy as flexible and open-ended as the Internet. In the days of newsprint or even broadcast, the concept of unlimited space or storage was inconceivable. I...

Tags: Food, Green Technology, Energy, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-03-25

Apple's most valuable vendors; New campus on tap; Jobs raise possible

Apple filed its annual report with the Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday and outlined a few notable items: A list of most valuable vendors, a second corporate campus on tap, component costs and a potential raise for Steve Jobs. Among the highlights: The company outlined its most valuable...

Tags: Apple Inc., Benefits, Business Operations, Campus, Company, Human Resources, Job, Larry Dignan, Manufacturing, Research & Development, Steve Jobs

Blog posts 2007-11-16

Microsoft-Novell: What a long, strange year it's been

Microsoft-Novell: What a long, strange year it's beenVERDICT: Microsoft's cynical patent FUD campaign is a DISMAL FAILURE.Let's be honest here. Microsoft doesn't want to "interoperate" with Linux. Microsoft wants to EMBRACE AND DESTROY Linux. Fortunately, as is often the case when Microsoft gives the "bear hug of death" and then...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, IT Consulting, Microsoft Corp., Linux Distro, Linux, Novell Inc., FUD, patent

Discussion threads 2007-11-08

U of Oregon fights RIAA subpoenas

The fight against the RIAA seems to be lining up some serious firepower. The University of Oregon and the state's attorney general are asking a federal judge to quash a subpoena issued by the recording industry seeking the names of 17 unidentified UO students, says Ars Technica. The RIAA's...

Tags: School, Recording Industry, RIAA, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2007-11-02

Hey, city kid, the "Farm Bill" is about your food bill, and your body

Corporations spend much more on energy than they do on pizza and free popcorn for the company kitchens. But you and I probably spend several time smore on food than we do energy. Food, where it comes from, what's in or on it, and how we consume it...

Tags: Food, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-10-24

Insanity and the standards process

Insanity and the standards processInteresting...Did they to your knowledge ever fix up the "man in the middle" flaw?Thanks Jeremey! Almost nobody saw the last minute MS dirty tricks comming,and hopefully, nobody will be fooled next February or whenever the last vote that would possibly allow OOXML be fast tracked.There have...

Tags: Quality, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Servers, Microsoft Corp., ECMA, OOXML, standards, Microsoft Office

Discussion threads 2007-09-17

California offers former HP chairman plea deal

California offers former HP chairman plea dealArnold's Enron SecretArnold Schwarzenegger and Patricia Dunn are connected through the Enron scandle. "This is because Dunn sat and still dose AFAIK on the board of Barkley's Global Investors - a division of Barkleys bank out of England. Barkleys Bank likely hid financial transactions...

Tags: plea deal, Enron Corp., Arnold, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Discussion threads 2007-01-18

HP settles with California in spy scandal

HP settles with California in spy scandalno prosecutionwho saw this coming, just a small fine to hp no jail time for anyone. Good luck on restoring your image HPMessage has been deleted.Isn't America's judicial system wonderful?Commit crimes that essentially violate people's constitutional rights, buy off some "elected officials" by...

Tags: Business ethics, Intellectual property, Operational accounting, Leadership, Benefits, NYT, settlement, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP Settles, cashier

Discussion threads 2006-12-07

California AG considering civil suit against HP

California AG considering civil suit against HPInteresting situationAs Bill Lockyer will have a new job in just over a month, he's a lame duck and while I'm sure it would be career civil service lawyers actually conducting the lawsuit, it will be AG-elect and ex-Gov Jerry Brown that would be...

Tags: Corporate governance, Enron Corp., Barkleys bank, Hewlett-Packard Co., civil suit, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Barkleys Global Investors, Arnold

Discussion threads 2006-11-30

California AG: HP 'lost its way'

Bill Lockyer says protecting privacy is crucialOn Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2006, California Attorney General Bill Lockyer filed criminal charges against former HP Chairman Patricia Dunn and four others. The charges say Dunn knew illegal techniques were used to track private phone records. Here, Lockyer addresses the complaint in Sacramento, Calif.

Tags: Bill Lockyer

Videos 2006-10-05

Report: Former HP chair to be indicted

Report: Former HP chair to be indictedIf it went as high as PattyThen how could Hurd have not known what was going on? If he gave approval for some of the methods used by investigators how could he not have known about the 'pre-texting'? It is good that...

Tags: Corporate governance, Vertical industries, Benefits, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Discussion threads 2006-10-04

How HP bugged e-mail

How HP bugged e-mailSecurity Companies Violating PrivacyWhen they were warned internally, they cannot say they were unaware of the illegality.Dunn and the rest must be prosecuted -- unless the California AG decides to sit this one out and hope for huge campaign donations from HP.I assume that this only works...

Tags: Spam, e-mail, Hewlett-Packard Co., SeaMonkey

Discussion threads 2006-09-28

PatriciaGate: More heads roll and...what California's AG "didn't" say

PatriciaGate: More heads roll and...what California's AG "didn't" sayblah blah blahAnother case of zdnet sensationalizing it beyond any reason to get more page hits so asto get more revenue from advertisment just like how newspapers sensationalize an issue to get more new paper sales."Quite frankly, it was the first...

Tags: Corporate governance, Patricia Dunn, Patriciagate, board

Discussion threads 2006-09-25

PatriciaGate: More heads roll and...what California's AG *didn't* say

In it's first major step towards reconciling a scandalous breach in corporate integrity and character, HP CEO Mark Hurd finally came forward last week to clear the air over what I've been referring to as PatriciaGate here on ZDNet (it's referred to that elsewhere too and I am not taking...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Bill Lockyer, Mark Hurd

Blog posts 2006-09-25

HP chairman resigns, CEO confirms knowledge of probe

HP chairman resigns, CEO confirms knowledge of probeYour question will be answeredAs the whole ordeal continues to unfold I believe your question will be answered. Hurd must have known about the investigations, he must have. In any case, it will be interesting to see what happens - if...

Tags: Corporate governance, Investment, knowledge, witch, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Discussion threads 2006-09-22

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...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co.

Blog posts 2006-09-18

PatriciaGate worsens for HP

While HP's stock flutters near its 52-week high apparantly unscathed by PatriciaGate, other forces are conspiring to blow a dark cloud over the company with the biggest "kick me" sign on it's back. The dust had barely settled from the California Attorney General's office having announced yesterday...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co.

Blog posts 2006-09-14