Word: pc
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...before HP was due to report earnings--a report that the company acknowledges will meet Wall Street's estimates. But the guillotine blade began its descent in December, when IBM decided to sell its money-losing personal-computer business to Lenovo, a Chinese company. IBM had concluded that a PC was a commodity, little more than a toaster that also does long division, and its decision to get out of the business spotlighted Fiorina's opposite bet. Under her command, HP in 2002 spent $19 billion buying Compaq, largely to expand its position in PCs and fight off Dell...
Those odds got a lot sharper during her burnt-earth campaign to acquire Compaq in 2002. To Fiorina, combining the two plodding PC businesses was the only way to improve profitability and take on the low-cost, direct-sales monster called Dell. To critics, merging two lousy operations had limited appeal. Director Walter Hewlett, a Stanford music professor and son of the co-founder, led a public proxy fight against the deal. Although Fiorina prevailed, the cost was high. Within months, Compaq CEO Michael Capellas, who was supposed to run the computer division, was out the door. Others followed...
...musicians. Cohen, who lives outside Seattle, supports his wife and two kids with donations from BitTorrent users and says he would be the last person to download content illegally. "People want to make an example of me," he says. Sure, he has a DESTROY CAPITALISM sticker on his PC. But he still gets his movies the old-fashioned way: with a mail-order subscription to NetFlix. --With reporting by Sandeep Kaushik/ Seattle and Jeffrey Ressner/ Los Angeles...
...downside: it can't play encrypted songs purchased online, and it's a serious challenge to put together. To get started, you attach a ZonePlayer--a 10-lb. white box with a built-in amplifier and wireless receiver--to your PC and stereo. I needed technical support to get it to work. With a starter kit costing a pricey $1,199, Sonos really makes sense only for digital-music junkies with money to burn. --By Anita Hamilton
...hard-to-reach places - a new breed of software known as desktop search can help. The big names in Internet search - Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, AOL - have released, or will release early this year, a desktop-search tool for consumers, making it as easy to search your PC's hard drive as it is to search the Web. (Existing search tools built into Windows are too cumbersome to compare, says Dave Goebel, president of the search advisory firm Goebel Group.) These free programs, typically just a few megabytes in size, are easy to download. Once installed, the software gets...