Word: hewletts
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...harmless enough thing to do. I never expected it to take off,” Ulrich admits. “But lots of people have asked me since if they could use it for various reasons. In the past few months, for example, I have heard from a Hewlett-Packard division in the Northwest and from a public health collective in the South.” The Mount Holyoke History Department ordered t-shirts from one angry girl designs with the Ulrich quote emblazoned...
They come from different parts of the technology universe. Computer powerhouse Hewlett-Packard is an invention factory that has created hundreds of products, things like the handheld calculator, over its 62-year history. Compaq hasn't really invented anything. It sprang to life as an IBM-clone maker in 1982 and shot into the FORTUNE 500 in record time on the basis of its ability to give consumers low-priced machines built with mostly off-the-shelf parts...
Person of the Week RECIPE FOR GROWTH Derided over a failed bid for PricewaterhouseCoopers, Hewlett-Packard chief Carly Fiorina served up an even tastier treat: a $25 billion merger - the industry's largest - with rival Compaq. Too bad that a bearish Wall Street quickly took one-fifth off the deal's value...
This all-star brainchild of Damon Albarn from Blur; Dan (the Automator) Nakamura; Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz from Tom Tom Club; and Tank Girl animator Jamie Hewlett is technically a concept album: the CD plays a cartoon on your computer. Well, forget the 'toon and listen to the tunes, for this is the most imaginative pop record of the year. Nakamura's beats are wonderfully atmospheric and danceable; Del Tha Funky Homosapien's playful rhymes are the perfect foil to Albarn's ennui-filled vocals, and Weymouth's giant bass whomps away throughout...
...warm to drink as Randy Furr, president and COO of Sanmina, made the pitch for his younger firm, then worth $7.7 billion, to buy SCI, then worth $4 billion, and considered a pioneer in the fast-growing business of manufacturing tech hardware for name-brand companies like Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Nokia. After nearly a day's wrangling, Furr could not get Eugene Sapp, chief executive officer of SCI, to agree on anything, except that they would meet again...