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That won't solve the company's revenue problems. Xerox has cut bundling deals with Compaq and Dell to push its fledgling line of ink-jet printers, and it is spending $200 million on its biggest advertising blitz ever. But it's having a tough time taking on H-P in the hot personal and small-business space. "They're never going to beat [them]," says Frank Pacetta, vice president of sales at SingleSource IT and a 20-year Xerox veteran...
...programmers. They believe in sharing their work rather than selling it. Yet last month when one of these programmers, Miguel de Icaza, 27, announced the creation of the Gnome Foundation to bring open-source software to the masses, he was flanked by such giant corporate partners as Sun Microsystems, Compaq and IBM. That makes de Icaza a type that's rarer still: part software hippie handing flowers to the corporate police, part digital-age powerhouse...
...COMPAQ IPAQ H3650 $499 or $799, plus $30 a month (with modem); available in June Look out, Palm! Here's a silvery, sleek pocket PC with a built-in MP3 player, full Web access and a gorgeous color screen...
...approach 140 million. Virtually all phones being made today have microbrowser capability, enabling them to surf the Web. PDA sales are exploding; they're projected to rise from 8.9 million last year to 35 million in 2003. That's largely due to a flurry of new devices from Casio, Compaq and Hewlett-Packard, as well as newcomers Handspring and Research in Motion. And others will surely leap in too, among them electronics giant Sony...
There are few challenges the animal families of Africa or the Amazon face that the Banzer family of Houston, wouldn't understand. Stephanie Banzer, 31, is a marketing manager for Compaq Computers as well as the mother of 19-month-old Matthew. When Stephanie gave birth, she and her husband knew they would need her income to keep the household running. Full-time mothering was thus not an option--and full-time baby-sitters were too expensive. Instead, she turned to a team of child-care providers she knew could do the job: her mother and two aunts. The three...