HP is at a crossroads. Financially it's in very good shape,but Mark Hurd, the recently fired HP CEO, sacrificed employee loyalty and long-term strategic goals. IT Business Edge's Lora Bentley corr... More >
A massive battle for a little-known storage vendor 3PAR broke out this week, driven by forward-looking executives at Dell and HP. This is unusual in a world where companies seem overly concerned... More >
Qualcomm, the market leader in cell phone technology, had its financial analyst meeting this week, filled with its vision of the future. While there was a consumer component anchored by its Skifta... More >
The book “The Big Lie” clearly has me thinking about CEOs this week and why they so often fail. (We are also looking at the adverse impact of excess CEO salaries this week.) While reading about t... More >
In its largest acquisition to date, Intel bought security vendor McAfee this week to aggressively address the emerging embedded and smartphone markets, both of which increasingly are poorly secured... More >
Last week it was all about Mark Hurd and this week starts off with a lot of focus on HP’s board, with suggestions that the members should step down. IT Business Edge's own Lora Bentley asks whether... More >
As more details emerge from inside HP about Mark Hurd’s conduct in recent years, another story is emerging. One of an executive who had lost touch with reality and was increasingly focused on his ow... More >
By now you’ve seen the news of Mark Hurd’s (clearly involuntary) resignation from HP and likely seen some of the he-said, she-said, they-said that has followed. The good news for HP is that in an u... More >
Today Marvell started recruiting developers for its Plug computing platform, which is currently consumer-oriented and represents a fundamental rethinking of how you build products. The core product... More >
Last week I wrote about Microsoft’s Financial Analyst Meeting. A parallel bit of more important news came out, having to do with documents leaked to and from Wikileaks that showcased the war in Af... More >

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