Word: hewletts
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...throbbed out on to the street. Inside, the crowd was as hip, diverse and giddy as the band’s eponymous debut album: slightly ostentatious, but mostly with a self-deprecating sense of humor. As Nakamura’s set finished, Gorillaz cartoonist (and Tank Girl creator) Jamie Hewlett sipped his beer nervously behind his banks of projectors ranged on a platform at the back of the room. Unlike the first couple of shows in Britain, everyone had a pretty good idea what we were going to get: animated performers and images, projected onto a translucent screen through which...
There were some wonderful moments. In place of between-song patter, which most bands make a hash of anyway, Hewlett had cartoon vignettes of the Gorillaz band at play. One segment showed 2-D trying to ramp over the somnolent Russel’s belly on a tiny tricycle, and getting thoroughly pounded for his pains. In an interview with the Harvard Crimson, Nakamura said of the cartoon-character front, “It’s easier to present on the web and on video, but it’s a little more work to present live?...
...Hewlett, on the other hand, has his elephant gun aimed squarely at those big beige bundles of Intel chips and Microsoft software. It doesn't make sense to him--or to some industry analysts--to spend so much money on other people's technology, especially now that Dell seems to have the PC direct-sales market sewn up. "Strapping together boxes and selling them is not an area where HP is doing well," Hewlett points out. "Why get further into that business...
...brighter path, Hewlett says, would be to spend a few billion growing HP's most profitable division, the one that makes printers and digital cameras. There's an alternative Gillette strategy: seed the exploding digital-camera market now; cash in on lucrative printing services later. Think of all those PowerPoint presentations and full-color reports that companies across the country are sending to Kinko's right now. That, argues Hewlett, should be HP's turf. "Our printing business alone is worth more than our current stock price," he says...
Printing and imaging have long been the jewels in HP's crown, and Fiorina bristles at the suggestion that HP doesn't innovate enough (indeed, the company recently introduced the first photo printer that prints directly from a digital camera's storage card). She slams Hewlett's alternative as a waste of opportunity. Roughly 25% of the profit a combined HP-Compaq would make, in the best-case scenario, would come from printing and imaging. "It would be an easy course if we were focused on the short term," she says. "We're looking 10 years ahead...