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HP CEO Mark Hurd linked to 'dirty tricks'

HP CEO Mark Hurd linked to 'dirty tricks'Is protecting one's IP a bad thing ??If a CEO or Chairperson agrees that means need to be taken to protect his/her company's Intellectual Property from being leaked is that somehow irresponsible?In fact, it is their responsibility to the shareholders and employees to...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Financial accounting, Mark Hurd, NCR Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., dirty trick

Discussion threads 2006-09-21

Hurd, Gerstner, HP and NCR

Redmonk James Governor suggests that new HP CEO Mark Hurd is using former IBM CEO Lou Gerstner's playbook--no glitz, glamor, trendiness, dissembling or philosophizing, just execute. James also floats a rumor: HP would acquire NCR (Hurd's former company) to bring Teradata and its enterprise analytical capabilities into the fold, as...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Mark Hurd

Blog posts 2005-09-05

HP's Hurd sold off NCR shares

HP's Hurd sold off NCR sharesSeems unlikleyIt would be pretty rare for someone to get such a high level, high profile job only a few weeks after the first contact. There are typically multiple rounds of interviews that have to worked into multiple extremely busy people's calendars as well...

Tags: NCR Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co.

Discussion threads 2005-04-07

Meet HP's new CEO Mark Hurd

The waiting is over--Hewlett-Packard chose Mark Hurd, NCR CEO,  to replace Carly Fiorina, in hopes that he can eliminate the "beleagured" label that is often stuck to HP's forehead. Mark Hurd's appointment comes less than two months after HP ousted its former chief executive Carly Fiorina. Who is Mark Hurd? He...

Tags: NCR Corp., Mark Hurd

Blog posts 2005-03-29

HP names NCR leader as new chief executive

HP names NCR leader as new chief executiveNT Do I smell a merger?NTOh, Yea - this will work - NOT!NCR - no channel efforts other than to put the screws to it, no consumer effort whatsoever, recognized as a dead in the water company - AND Hp wants this man...

Tags: Outsourcing, Investment, leader, HP Way, Hewlett-Packard Co., NCR Corp.

Discussion threads 2005-03-29

Additional Resources

Print this: Actually, please don't, but DO think about why printers should get more airtime in green tech discussions

I was talking to someone within the past couple of months (I honestly can't remember who right now, sorry) who made a pretty profound statement that seems pertinent in the context of this post. I had just admitted, somewhat shamefacedly, to my ongoing addiction to printing out my notes, presentations...

Tags: Green Technology, Printing, Printers, Document Management, Hardware, Peripherals, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Wall Street: MSFT should buy Yahoo, consider RIM

A Wall Street investor has suggested that the stars may be aligned just right for Microsoft to make another run at Yahoo, this time for $22 per share. Investment fund Mithras Capital, which owns more than 1.9 million shares, or 0.14 percent, of Yahoo, said Microsoft has a window of...

Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., MSFT, Financial Accounting, Search, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Finance, Marketing, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Is OpenOffice good enough?

Is OpenOffice good enough?For the vast majority of users, it works fine.For the vast majority of users, it works fine. There are occasional features that it doesn't do so well at, but it has all of the standard word processing features that most people need.If you need to use some...

Tags: OOA/OOD/OOP, OPEN SOURCE, object-oriented, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-10-10

Mac OS X Patch Day: 40 security flaws fixed

Apple has shipped another whopper of a patch to cover a total of 40 documented vulnerabilities affecting the Mac OS X ecosystem. The Security Update 2008-007, available for Tiger and Leopard, covers a range of third-party components and Mac OS X flaws that could users at risk...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Vulnerability, Arbitrary Code Execution, Application Termination, Apple Mac OS X, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-10-09

IBM: Beats earnings target but...

IBM said that it will beat Wall Street's earnings estimates for the third quarter, but there were enough nuggets disclosed to raise a few eyebrows. First, the headlines. IBM statement said it would report earnings of $2.05 a share, a good 3 cents better than estimates. Revenue,...

Tags: Revenue, Earnings, IBM Corp., Thomas Weisel, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-09

HP to jump into smartphones. Why?

Hewlett Packard is jumping deeper into the crowded smartphone market, announcing plans for an iPaq smartphone that will be marketed toward consumers to be released first in Europe before the end of the year and later worldwide, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. In...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Smart Phone, Smart Phones, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-03

Apple aims to dismiss Psystar countersuit

Apple asked a U.S. District Court judge to dismiss Psystar's counterclaims against the company. As background, Apple launched a suit against Psystar alleging that the Mac clone maker harmed its brand. Psystar all resources fired back arguing that Apple was abusing monopoly power and launched its own...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Antitrust, Apple Inc., Computer, Psystar, Productivity, Corporate Law, Desktops, Security, Business Operations, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-01

How green is your IT leasing company?

One might be tempted, perhaps, to consider leasing as an option when considering how to manage your company's IT portfolio with an eye to green issues. In the sense that you'll keep a better lid on the age of your assets or maybe spend a little...

Tags: Information Technology, Leasing, Redemtech, Capital Structures, Finance, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-09-30

I... B... Wha?

The following is a true story, and happened to me today. I'm on a business trip visiting Richmond, Virginia --  which for those of you kids reading this piece, is the state capital, has a population of over 200,000, and is home to...

Tags: Computer, IBM Corp., Productivity, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-09-30

Mea culpa. HP has pledged mercury-free notebooks, too

Something tells me that I MUST have blogged about this before, but it deserves a reminder, since I just mentioned Dell's intentions, which technically came later than Hewlett-Packard's. In any event, the goodly PR folks at HP remind me they, too, have pledged mercury-free notebooks. Their company's...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Public Relations, Notebooks, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-09-30

RealDVD officially launches, so do lawsuits; Is it 'StealDVD'?

Update: RealNetworks announced Tuesday that its RealDVD software, which allows you to rip and burn DVDs easily, officially launched. And the lawsuits weren't far behind. In a statement Techmeme, RealNetworks billed RealDVD as a "watershed" product. The software, which goes for $29.99 on sale, allows you to...

Tags: Lawsuit, Movie, RealNetworks Inc., RealDVD, RealDVD Software, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-30

Student Technology Day: your questions to the presenters

I received an email this morning about the opportunity to participate in sending questions to the speakers at the Microsoft Student Technology Day tomorrow (that's Wednesday, for those who have yet to understand the Gregorian calendar). Whilst I'm not allowed to publish the number to text in your questions for...

Tags: Speaker, Microsoft Corp., Question, Keyboards, Internet, Games, Hardware, Peripherals, Personal Technology, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-09-30

Norway to challenge closed iTunes model

Norway's Consumer Ombudsman Bjoern Erik Thon announced that he's taking Apple Inc. to the government's Market Council to force the company to open its iTunes music store to digital players other than its own iPod. Currently, songs purchased and downloaded through iTunes are designed to work with Apple's market-leading...

Tags: Apple iPod, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-09-29

It's still good to be green, whether it's accidental or not

One of the IT services companies that closely partners with IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Cisco Systems, released an interesting survey earlier this week that confirms what I've believed for some time: IT managers don't really care about being green in the environmental sense as much as they care about saving money....

Tags: IT Manager, Survey, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Marketing Research, Servers, Hardware, Storage, Marketing, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-09-28

HP takes leadership stand on emissions reporting across supply chain

Talk about full (well, almost-full) disclosure: As it promised in its 2007 Global Corporate Citizenship Report, tech giant Hewlett-Packard is reporting carbon emissions data not just for its own operations for those of its largest suppliers. The data represents about 80 percent of the company's "first-tier manufacturing expenditures." (Whatever...

Tags: Supply Chain, Leadership, Hewlett-Packard Co., Carbon Dioxide, Supplier, Channel Management, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-09-26