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Schwarzenegger enlists Fiorina for team: Carly Fiorina, CEO of Hewlett-Packard and the most powerful woman in business according to Fortune, has been tapped by the Governator. "Carly Fiorina, Hewlett-Packard's chief executive, has been chosen by California Governor-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger to join his transition team. Fiorina joins a group trying to ...

HP to Unveil More Than 100 New Gadgets: All the computer manufacturers are starting to encroach on the gadget space. Big day for HP today. "Hewlett-Packard Co. is introducing more than 100 new consumer gadgets on Monday, from digital cameras to photo-quality desktop printers, in anticipation of what could be ...

Wired News: Sinbad Hears Linux's Siren Song: Watch out, SCO may sue for a cut of the box office. "Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, an animated movie from DreamWorks Animation Technology that hits theaters July 2, is the first Hollywood production created entirely on Linux. More than 250 Hewlett-Packard ...

Sowing the Apple Seeds of Love: Because we all know how well Apple has done with clones of its hardware. At a high-tech expo stuffed with an overabundance of company announcements, PC maker Hewlett-Packard stole the show yesterday when it announced it will resell a version of Apple Computer's iPod ...

NYT: IBM putting its PC business on the block: Looks like that Gartner report was right on the money. IBM, now the No. 3 PC maker behind Dell Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co., is likely to include all of its desktop and laptop computers in the sale, which could earn it ...

HP's Fiorina leads Fortune's most powerful women's list: The CEO of eBay is number two. Just two of the top five are tech-related (three if you count Xerox), compared to eight of the top ten overall. "Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina is the most powerful woman in business, according to a ...

HP to indemnify Linux customers: A great strategy here by HP. "Hewlett-Packard plans to announce Wednesday that it will indemnify its Linux customers against potential legal actions by SCO Group. An HP representative confirmed late Tuesday that the company will announce plans to assume liability for its customers' use of ...

The Museum of HP Calculators: Perhaps the be-all and end-all spot for Hewlett Packard calculators. This site goes gonzo on HP calculators: See the very first HP calculator produced in 1968 Marvel at the the legendary HP-12C business calculator which entered production in 1981 and can still be purchased new ...

PC sales may be coming out of doldrums: PC sales are up between 14% and 20% this year, depending on who you ask. The numbers are encouraging to a sector that has been languishing for the past three years, battered by the dot-bomb, a flagging economy and a mountainous inventory ...

Warning: Blogs Can Be Infectious: I would complain, but I'm probably guilty as hell. The most-read webloggers aren't necessarily the ones with the most original ideas, say researchers at Hewlett-Packard Labs. Using newly developed techniques for graphing the flow of information between blogs, the researchers have discovered that authors of ...

Thinking Different, Saving Money: Apple finally beat someone on price. Of course, you need to buy 1,100 dual processor G5 with a healthy education discount, but the more you buy, the more you save. "Lockhart estimates the hardware cost $5.2 million, a reasonable price, he said, for a supercomputer that ...

Wired 11.07: McNealy's Last Stand: A fascinating, albeit long, article about the fate of Sun. "...the story reduces down to this: McNealy spent the second half of the 1990s monomaniacally obsessed with everything having to do with Microsoft, from its monopoly-like practices to the general unreliability of the Windows operating ...

Test bed helps the Internet evolve: The Internet has a dev environment, it turns out. "The project sponsored by Intel Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co., as well as many universities, is currently running on more than 160 machines at 65 sites worldwide. 'PlanetLab is a wonderful resource. Because it is in ...

HP lowers price pole with $349 PC | CNET News.com: That's awfully cheap, and it comes with XP Home. "The desktop is fitted with an Advanced Micro Devices Athlon XP 2000 processor running at 1.67GHz, 128MB of RAM (random access memory), a 40GB hard drive, a CD-ROM, a modem, and ...

Survey Ranks Top Ten Biggest, Most Popular Databases: Let's try to do an import of one of these databases into Microsoft Access. Taking home the prize for largest database size for all OS environments and Unix, for the DSS portion was France Telecom boasting 29.2TB. France Telecom uses Oracle Corp. ...

Oracle wins right to pursue rival: PeopleSoft may have played their last hand: Ellison and Henley wasted no time in firing off a letter to PeopleSoft's board, requesting a meeting to hammer out a deal, potentially the largest tech merger since Hewlett-Packard and Compaq Computer in 2002. We started covering ...

MIT OpenCourseWare: MIT is offering all their courseware online for free. Seriously. "MIT OCW is large-scale, Web-based electronic publishing initiative funded jointly by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and MIT. Its goals are to: Provide free, searchable, coherent access to MIT's course materials for ...

I saw Casino Royale for the third or fourth time tonight. What a great, great film. I'm an old school Bond fan, and I'll state without qualification that if I had to pick one Bond film to take to a desert island with me, it'd be Casino Royale. But it's ...