Apotheker offered several reasons for his bad day, all telling about HP and the world.
Though HP is a world leader in desktop color printing, it couldn't wait to adapt its technology to the commercial marketplace.
For example, we all can thank HP for a world of color.
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HP, the world's largest technology company, simplifies the technology experience for consumers and businesses with a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure.
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Introduced in 1984, HP Thinkjet was the world's first mass-marketed personal inkjet printer.
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Through our for-profit work with the education sector, HP has real-world expertise in how to set up technologies for maximum impact, how to integrate new technologies successfully, how to tailor technology to specific needs and how to help educators throughout the process.
While the exact numbers vary, the two paint a partly familiar picture of the world stage: HP and Dell are taking a bruising, while ASUS and Lenovo are making huge leaps forward.
Further, HP would like lose retail shelf space around the world for other products, such as printers, if HP were to spin off the PC division.
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By 2006, HP had supplanted Dell as the world's largest PC maker.
The world already knew that HP planned to release a tablet PC running webOS, the operating system it acquired when it purchased Palm.
Autonomy would allow HP further reach into the software world.
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Three weeks after Hurd charmed Capitol Hill, new numbers showed that, for the first time in several years, HP had toppled Dell as the world's biggest seller of PCs.
And in fairness we should mention it turns out that HP is the largest printer maker in the world.
The HP Cloud Application PaaS enables the real-world enterprise to reap the benefits of cloud computing while preserving the order of managed IT.
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Hurd had taken HP to the biggest tech company in the world, an arguable contender against both IBM and Cisco, and a model for the rest of the industry about the right way to do mergers and carry out efficient execution.
There are a world of market opportunities out there that HP can develop.
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The world's largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems.
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Robson, ranked 201 in the world, was in action at the HP Open in Osaka on Tuesday but lost in the opening round to Kimiko Date Krumm.
The world's largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure at the convergence of the cloud and connectivity, creating seamless, secure, context-aware experiences for a connected world.
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Consider the sorry state of HP and Dell, once proud giants of the PC world.
Until then, HP can play a big role in shaping our physical world, but probably not in its current state.
The tech world has endlessly debated what went wrong with HP.
Talking to an analyst here at Dell World yesterday, the reaction was: either HP get ex-Autonomy chief Mike Lynch into a US court quickly or the people at the top at HP will suffer.
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His quick work put HP, perhaps the largest buyer of computer components in the world, at the head of the queue for the suddenly-scarce parts.
Hurd's first target is the world's 2, 000 biggest companies, which HP woos with such partners as SAP, Oracle and Microsoft.
The firm's PC business is the world's biggest, but is not as profitable as HP's other units.
While AMD sales have steadily declined for the last five consecutive quarters, the HP deal gives more credence to the use of AMD chips in the corporate world.
It is the other things that make HP (at least temporarily) incoherent, as it looks for a place in the world ahead.
If more women, like Whitman, actually reach out and grab such a high profile job like CEO of HP then perhaps we are actually moving toward equality in the corporate (boy scout) world.
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