The story of Carly Fiorina's rise and fall at Hewlett-Packard centers around the company's 2002 acquisition of Compaq Computer. Along the way, HP marked milestones including the introduction of Itanium systems; the spin-off of consulting and services company Agilent Technologies and the creation of a new HP services organization; and a new focus on the consumer market. Here are some notable moments during Fiorina's tenure:
If there were any lingering doubts that we are in the post-PC era, several big stories this year should have cleared them up.
The increasingly rancorous feud between Apple Computer and RealNetworks over technology that lets tunes from the RealPlayer Music Store play on the market-leading iPod is refueling controversy about Apple's business model, copyright law and the impact of incompatible technologies on the music business.
Hailing the move as one that brings choice to online music services users, RealNetworks has introduced software that lets songs downloaded from its own music store be played on a variety of devices, essentially breaking Apple's proprietary grip on its market-leading iPod music player.
Under fire from large competitors, Siebel Systems is looking to offer increasingly robust hosted CRM (customer relationship management) applications as well as hybrid implementations of on-premise and on-demand software to win market share in the business applications market, according to David Schmaier, the company's executive vice president.
With new-contract signings down in an IT services market that company officials called "tepid," beleaguered Electronic Data Systems (EDS) has reported second-quarter earnings that were less than half of what they were a year earlier.
Aiming to help financially beleaguered operators make the most of on-demand programming services that use the current generation of set-top boxes, Microsoft has announced the TV Foundation Edition, its latest effort to gain a software foothold in the cable television market.
A number of technical and business hurdles need to be overcome before gamers see a wider variety of titles on mobile devices, according to developers and online games-site executives speaking at the Games and Mobile Forum conference in New York.
West Virginia will join Massachusetts in appealing the recent decision of US District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in the government's antitrust case against Microsoft, according to a Microsoft spokesman.
Worldwide PC shipments for 2002 and 2003 will rise, but lack of compelling technologies and worries about the economy are causing users to hang on to their older computers, putting a damper on industry recovery, according to market research company Dataquest.
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has sent back to a lower court US District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's decision in the government's landmark antitrust case against Microsoft.
After braking international expansion and seeing the company's share price plunge to the below-$1 level, Buy.com chief executive officer Greg Hawkins is banking on the company's virtual fulfillment and distribution model to pull it into profitability and survive the dot-com shakeout.
Hewlett-Packard announced Tuesday it would acquire Bluestone Software in a stock-for-stock transaction.
Pointing toward opportunities in the growing market for the Linux operating system and related software, Corel and Inprise (formerly Borland) yesterday announced that they have agreed to merge.
Citing its strong carrier and service provider businesses, Nortel Networks yesterday reported operational earnings for the fourth quarter, which ended December 31, of $US755 million, or 55 cents per share.
