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...beginning to seem justified. The CEO of tech giant Hewlett-Packard proved adept at playing Wall Street hardball, leading her company's ferociously contested proxy battle to buy Compaq Computer for $19 billion. She promised big benefits from that acquisition and last week began to deliver them. HP's quarterly earnings report showed the company stemming losses in its most troubled divisions--PCs and corporate computer systems--and surpassing its cost-cutting goals. HP shares have surged 72% since early October, including 15% last week...
...research: IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Samsung and NEC. Nano-Lab, in Brighton, Mass., is one of the few nanotech companies turning a profit. It sold $200,000 worth of made-to-order nanotubes in 2001 and is on track to more than double that amount this year. Last week HP researchers unveiled a way of manufacturing molecular-scale circuitry that will be cheaper and use less power than current silicon chips and have the potential to store entire libraries of information...
Coordinator of Residential Computing Kevin S. Davis ’98 said yesterday that HASCS did not know what is at the root of the repeated failures. But he said that Hewlett Packard (HP), the vendor of Harvard’s servers, was called in within the first half-hour of the failures, as HASCS believe the problem most likely lies with the equipment provided by the vendor...
...cause of this type of massive failure was clearly a low-level problem related to hardware or software that could only be addressed by HP,” Davis wrote in an e-mail yesterday...
...control of this $91 billion industry. As Microsoft gets set to muscle in on Nokia's turf, the Finnish giant is selling its own software deal with a rival operating system. Other cell-phone manufacturers like Motorola and Qualcomm are also releasing their blueprints. Even companies like HP, whose latest Journada handheld computer has a built-in smart phone, are getting in on the act. "Clearly, everyone wants a piece of everyone else's pie," says Sarah Kim, a mobile-communications analyst for the Yankee Group. "There's an amazing war brewing...