I, and the rest of HP, right now are focused on one goal: to exploit the intersection for our customers and yours.
Connected to a TV and stereo, the book-size HP box draws entertainment right out of the computer and lets you manage it from onscreen menus.
One digital media observer noted in a recent blog post that he saw a similar pattern of discounting and giveaways right before HP killed off its tablet business.
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Meg Whitman is talented, but is not the right leader for HP.
But Maynard is right: Oracle bidding for HP would make for high theater, but the idea lacks compelling business logic.
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Fiorina had many of the right ideas, and her call to the HP faithful was prescient, warning of the dire threat posed by the Internet, commoditization and nascent offshore rivals.
We think such a deal would make sense at the right price, but we are not sure that HP could monetize the asset for a reasonable price.
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And she attempted skim right over her really, really big news: HP is laying off about 8% of its workforce, or 27, 000 people (about half the population of Greenland).
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At 3.97 pounds with no optical drive, it's right on par with similarly equipped machines, like that HP TouchSmart we just told you about.
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It used its power, the court ruled, to thwart initiatives by companies such as Sun Microsystems (nasdaq: SUNW - news - people), Compaq Computer (nyse: CPQ - news - people) and Hewlett-Packard (nyse: HP - news - people)--powerful firms in their own right.
Now that HP is in big trouble there are plenty of skeptics that think Ms. Whitman is not right for the job.
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In actuality, the analyst community overreacted and HP managed to exceed their (newly diminished) expectations, but it is definitely a step in the right direction.
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