Word: hewletts
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...Last year, the Federal Communications Commission passed a rule prohibiting landline and cellular phone companies from asking biographical questions for password retrieval, following the disclosure that computer company Hewlett-Packard was using the information to gain access to industry journalists' phone records - a technique known as "pretexting." Still, e-mail providers like Yahoo! and many online banking services haven't stopped using biographical questions, even as much of this information is finding its way online...
...organizers, though, such events are crucial to free running's survival. There are plenty of brands - from Adidas to Hewlett-Packard - keen to feature free running in their advertising at the moment, but that interest is "going to die out at some point," reckons Paul Corkery, a 34-year-old Londoner in charge of Urban Freeflow, the team of free running teachers and performers behind the London event. Prolonging the sport's life requires taking the initiative...
...part of a dangerous challenge to U.S. welfare and security. They call the process deindustrialization, and argue that while the U.S. devours huge amounts of foreign industrial goods, the American economy risks losing the very industries that have kept it strong for decades. Says John Young, chief executive of Hewlett-Packard and former head of President Reagan's Commission on Industrial Competitiveness: ''Manufacturing is the foundation upon which a service economy is built.'' Fears of deindustrialization are a major force behind protectionist sentiments in Congress, which are rising in a new crescendo. In the past year more than 200 restrictive...
...Telekom affair is reminiscent of the pretexting scandal that engulfed U.S. technology firm Hewlett Packard in 2006, costing chairwoman Patricia Dunn her job. It also is the latest in a remarkable series of disclosures about German companies spying on their employees and on journalists. Earlier this year, it emerged that discount retailers Lidl and Schlecker spied on their employees. Electronics giant Siemens has also been accused of spying on employees, and employees alleged that staff doctors at automaker Daimler reported on employees. Even Germany's spy agency, the Federal Intelligence Service (BND), was recently caught spying on German journalists...
...Beyond that, speculators are left with little information to go on. Other names that have been floated as possible McCain picks include Rob Portman, a former Ohio congressman, South Carolina governor Mark Sanford and Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett Packard, who is now working as his adviser...