Word: packards
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Other companies participating in the program this year include AT&T, Hewlett-Packard...
Though she enjoyed her job as a quality consultant for Hewlett-Packard, Shelley Comes, 47, was thinking seriously in 1995 about leaving it. Comes was concerned about her 74-year-old mother, who has a heart condition and diabetes and was living all alone on a remote farm five hours away. Then Comes learned that HP was offering telecommuting as an option to its employees. She told her boss she would like to give that elective a whirl. She struck a deal to work three weeks a month from the family farm in Garberville, Calif., and one week from...
...machine and printers, e-mail, conference-calling capacity and other gear, Comes is able to keep in touch with her colleagues and perform her job of developing and analyzing software from her home. It helps that she works for a computer company--her Hewlett-Packard equipment can be updated regularly with the latest features...
Justice contends that it was Microsoft's aggressive use of its market power--not the quality of its browser--that accounts for Internet Explorer's rapid growth at Netscape's expense. To make the point, Justice unveiled a memo from Hewlett-Packard complaining that Microsoft had prohibited it from installing Netscape if it wanted to keep installing Windows on its computers. "We are very disappointed," an H-P manager wrote. "From a consumer perspective, it is hurting our industry. If we had another choice of another supplier, based on your actions here, we would take...
When it comes to notebook PCs, thin usually means expensive. But a new line of sub-$1,000, 3-lb. notebooks running the Windows CE operating system is both svelte and affordable. Hewlett-Packard's Jornada, Sharp's Mobilon Pro and Vadem's Clio feature built-in modems, word-processing and spreadsheet programs, and offer up to 12 hours of battery life. The screens on the Mobilon Pro and Clio rotate on a hinge and can lie flat, tablet-style. But none have a floppy drive, making file transfers a bit awkward...