Ergo, had Apple and not HP been in the index this year, the Dow would now be 833 points higher.
"If you're from HP, do not include HP in your username, " he said.
It is probably a tougher job, since companies may not be ready yet, and HP may not have enough capability.
Whitman says that contrary to what she had heard, innovation is not dead at HP.
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Had HP not published this legal document itself, I would have gladly done it for them.
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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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We also do not understand why HP is raising these issues now given that Autonomy reported into the HP Finance team from the day the acquisition completed in October 2011, there was an extensive due diligence process and Autonomy was audited as a public company for many years.
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The firm's PC business is the world's biggest, but is not as profitable as HP's other units.
So, to review: Dell getting more aggressive in the enterprise IT market is not so good for HP.
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Rival HP is not going private for the moment and, again, seems to have even more problems than Dell.
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"Open source gives a level of control that proprietary software from the likes of Microsoft and HP do not give, " explains Kusnetzsky.
Some webOS developers were irritated that HP did not upgrade the U.S. versions of the Pre and Pre Plus with the 2.0 version of webOS when the platform was updated last fall.
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Earlier this week we gave some respect to HP for not freaking out over leaked photos and specs turning up on the web before they announced all those new iPAQs yesterday.
The trend has hurt all of the players in the PC food chain, including not just Dell and HP, but also Microsoft, Intel, the disk-drive companies and others.
There is no doubt that HP is getting a large patent portfolio, a strong team of engineers, and a proprietary operating system in Palm webOS, and it is reasonable to assume that HP did not have other ways to acquire such assets for less than the price it is paying for Palm.
The ultimate goal is not just to tap into HP's replacement supplies gold mine.
We also note that cash flow may not be materially impacted at HP or Xerox since owned inventories could fall near-term.
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Meg Whitman is talented, but is not the right leader for HP.
Arrandale fans need not despair either, as HP's TouchSmart 600 all-in-ones will be getting upgrades to Core i5 and Core i7 CPUs based on that architecture.
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We will also see that smart and courageous women like Sheryl Sandberg, Marissa Mayer ( Yahoo), Virginia Rometty (IBM) and Meg Whitman (HP) will not be changed by their power, but will change the nature of it.
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When confronted by Dunn, Keyworth refused a request to resign from the board, though he's not expected to be renominated at HP's next shareholder meeting.
On the surface that may not seem like a positive for HP but it's an important indicator of where spending is headed and at some level helps validate HP's purchase of Compaq.
It does shed light on why HP is suddenly adding not quite an iPod dock, but an iPod dock holder to its Pavilion line, although it seems like very strange timing considering Apple isn't selling docks standard with any of its iPod models anymore.
Besides not being very good at acquisitions, HP missed opportunities too.
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And while HP has, well, not done much of anything as regards research and development in a while, other brands have stepped in to fill customer needs.
The old garage has been expropriated by Fiorina not only as the new symbol of HP, but also apparently to give her the entrepreneurial spurs earned by Bill and Dave in the course of a half-century.
Calculators were the original handheld computers, but unlike the whole PDA fad, they've had amazing staying power through their 40-year history -- to this day, buttoned-up dudes crunching numbers at wooden desks have HP 12Cs next to them not for the kitschy retro street cred, but because they're functional, familiar, and do exactly what they're expected to do.
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