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To the Moon: The Integrators
The historic Apollo 11 mission in July of 1969 culminated in the first manned moon landing. While many of the proud Americans who were involved in that project are no longer with us 40 years later, the technologies they built still live on, will be further refined, and will return...
Tags: Spacecraft, NASA, Mission, Computer, IBM Corp., UNIVAC, Productivity, Mainframes, Servers, Hardware, Jason Perlow
Blog posts 2009-07-13
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
Could the Olympics spoil Back to School sales?
Supply chain blogs recently warned that the Chinese government may close down a number of manufacturing industries during the Olympic games this summer and other posters warn that shipping and production slowdowns could be felt around China. The site says games could disrupt the flow of technology hard-goods in the...
Tags: China, Olympic Games, Supply Chain, Apple Inc., Sales, Manufacturing, Games, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Personal Technology, Enterprise Software, Software, David Morgenstern
Blog posts 2008-04-08
McCain: Are Tech Empresses the Ticket?
Retiring eBay Chief Executive Meg Whitman now joins ex-HP CEO Carly Fiorina on John McCain's campaign and fund-raising trail. Hmm. Former and Soon-to-be former Empresses of Multi-Billion dollar dot-coms and powerful computer industry giants -- are we seeing a pattern here? Is it possible that we could we be seeing...
Tags: CEO, Finance, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources, Investment, Jason Perlow, John McCain, Management, Meg Whitman, Mergers & Acquisitions, Strategy
Blog posts 2008-03-16
Carly Fiorina's Tough Choices
Last Thursday I sat down with Carly Fiorina for a video interview in our San Francisco studio. She has been on a tour for two weeks promoting her book, Tough Choices, and taking advantage of the occasion to defend her tenure as CEO of Hewlett-Packard. The timing of her books...
Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Carly Fiorina
Blog posts 2006-10-23
HP revels in Fiorina's vision, Hurd's discipline
HP revels in Fiorina's vision, Hurd's disciplineInnovation is the key...Mark Hurd doesn't know how to innovate. He knows how to lower the bottom line by cutting cost (ie. handing out pink slips). Sometime this is an ugly need. Publicly traded companies are in the business of satisfying shareholders...
Tags: Strategy, Workforce management, vision, Hewlett-Packard Co., Mark Hurd
Discussion threads 2006-08-28
Carrion call -HP herd thundering toward Buffalo Jump
Carrion call -HP herd thundering toward Buffalo JumpSo HP = DECDEC shot itself in the foot when it forced customers from BSD Ultrix on MIPS machines to OSF on Alpha. There was NO MIGRATION PATH, just throw away the old and sign up for the new. If you force people...
Tags: Printers, Document management, UNIX, HP OpenView, Hewlett-Packard Co.
Discussion threads 2005-07-20
Hefty pay package for HP's new CEO
Hefty pay package for HP's new CEOGreat news!This is great news. Hurd's understated management style and desire to be in closecontact with employees is the perfect antidoteto what HP contended with in its last CEO.It sounds like a win-win situation for employees, customers and stockholders alike.He's likely to be...
Tags: Outsourcing, Hewlett-Packard Co.
Discussion threads 2005-03-29
Fiorina's tenure in quotes
News.com put together a collection of quotes covering the period of Carly Fiorina's six-year reign at HP that show the roller coaster ride that came to a halt today.* >Progress reports "I think it's good, as the stock is showing. She has adequate respect for HP's past but also clearly the...
Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Carly Fiorina
Blog posts 2005-02-09
Give Fiorina a break
Give Fiorina a breakShe likes DRM.. so that would be a NO!.. No BreakOur Computers. Our Rules.Quite Simple.i give carly a bad time because....everything about hp has gotten worse to me since she took over. Thier channel program, the quality of product, the support, the damn near everything.ahhh...the story...
Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Outsourcing, Hewlett-Packard Co., god-given right, digital-rights management
Discussion threads 2004-05-21
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