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...board ultimately concluded that Fiorina had one significant weakness as a chief executive: she just wasn't very good at running the business. That's a problem when you head an $80 billion behemoth with lackluster earnings that is beset on all sides by competitors like IBM, EMC and Dell. "Looking forward, we think the job is very reliant on hands-on execution, and we thought a new set of capabilities was called for," said Patricia Dunn, an HP director who became nonexecutive chairwoman...
General Motors, Dell and Samsung--one of the leading producers of the phones--are among the companies that have prohibited employees from taking cam phones into sensitive research and production facilities, to prevent corporate espionage. Schools are banning them to halt cheating, since students have been nabbed shooting test questions and e-mailing them to others. Many courthouses ban the phones to prevent witness or juror intimidation. (At a superior court hearing in Los Angeles three months ago, a witness was photographed by a cam-phone user who threatened to post the photo on the Web.) Most gyms have...
...enrage conservatives, it's a safe bet that the dispute will soon return to the Supreme Court. By then, one or two new Justices, armed with their particular biases--and almost unchallenged autonomy--could change the rules again. --With reporting by Brian Bennett and Massimo Calabresi/ Washington and Kristina Dell/ New York
...Officer was sent to Dunster House on a report of a stolen Dell laptop computer valued...
To see the future of transportation in Texas, you have to drive out to the prairie north of Austin, past the sprawling plants of Dell and Samsung, to the farthest suburbs, where wild grass and cornfields nuzzle up to McMansions with their perfect green lawns. There, giant earthmovers, their wheels taller than a Texan in his boots, are ripping up the gummy, black soil to lay a 49-mile stretch of concrete tollway. State Highway 130, at a cost of $1.5 billion, is the biggest highway project under way in the U.S. today. It is also the first test...