If you’re reading this on an HP Pavilion or Compaq Presario laptop, you might want to switch from battery to AC power before reading the remainder of this post. Fearing they might burst into flame, Hewlett-Packard is recalling 70,000 lithium-ion batteries that shipped with several types of its portable machines.
Hewlett-Packard has wrapped up its acquisition of technology services giant Electronic Data Systems Corp., the company’s largest purchase since the $20 billion merger former HP CEO Carly Fiorina orchestrated with Compaq Computers six years ago. Thankfully, it wasn’t nearly so rancorous.
What a lousy week for Intel, yeah? First Korea’s Fair Trade Commission fines the company $25 million for abusing its dominant market position in the country and offering discounts to PC makers in an effort to drive rival AMD out of the market. And now Federal Trade Commission has opened a formal investigation into its pricing practices.
There’s a reason Intel’s processors are in more than four out of five x86 computers sold in the global market and–like the European Union, Japan and South Korea–New York’s attorney general thinks it might be an anticompetitive one.
Empire State AG Andrew Cuomo today opened a formal antitrust investigation against Intel to determine if it violated [...]
If First Data’s board of directors owns a copy of former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina’s memoir, “Tough Choices,” they clearly don’t lend much credence to her withering assessment of former Compaq Chief Executive Michael Capellas. Because this morning, the Denver-based transaction processor said it will name him as CEO following completion of the acquisition of the company by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
When Santa Monica, Calif.-based incubator eCompanies paid $7.5 million in 1999 for the rights to the domain name business.com–nearly twice what Compaq paid the year prior to buy altavista.com, the name of its search engine–conventional wisdom was that the company’s founders were out of their minds. “It is going to be the bargain of the [...]
John Paczkowski has been poking fun at the tech industry and the personalities that drive it since 1997. From 1999 to 2007, he wrote the award-winning tech news Web log Good Morning Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper. Read more »
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12:58 AM: Breakfast: Two schools of fish from Tokyo Bay. Calories: 782,000. How I was feeling when I ate this: confused, irradiated, hating my size.
11:37 AM: Exercise: “Taxi Stomp” (alternating legs, for 30 blocks). Calories burned: 148,900,183.
1983. The Beatles announce their first tour in thirteen years, but likewise announce that Michael Jackson will be going on tour with them as a one gigantic mega-concert event.
Best video mashup ever.
A Facebook Memorial
Wow.
Worth it for the Rickrolling photo alone.
Excellent.
Flughumor!
… you vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodorous perverts
Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine meet the kakapo — a fat, flightless and very randy rare parrot.
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