Hewlett-Packard is offering decent Black Friday deals on some of its premier Windows 8 laptops. And the company has announced shipment dates for a couple of its newest touch-screen entries.
HP's Spectre and Spectre XT models are its top-of-the-line lappies. While just-announced Spectres got tiny discounts, a couple of not-so-recent entries are selling for $100 off today. … Read more
Rare is the big tech company that has not committed the periodic stumble. But when it comes to bungling and buffoonery, you won't find a bigger serial offender than Hewlett-Packard.
Earlier today, the company essentially said it got scammed into overpaying for Autonomy, the enterprise software company it bought for $11.1 billion last year. That's just the half of it because buried in its Q4 earnings release was this gem: HP is taking an $8.8 billion charge as a result of what it described as "serious accounting improprieties, disclosure failures, and outright misrepresentations at Autonomy.&… Read more
With Hewlett-Packard's stock price going south in a hurry, CEO Meg Whitman tried to advance the argument that HP's 'return to greatness' will based on great products.
"In terms of investments, we are very focused on product, product, product," said CEO Meg Whitman in today's earnings conference call, via a transcript provided by Seeking Alpha.
Whitman continued. "Great companies return to greatness on the basis of product."
She went on to cite products like its "Gen8" servers, Moonshot servers, and new lines of PCs, printers, and services.
Both Whitman and chief … Read more
Microsoft was touting touch today at its Build conference. And that means for plain old laptops too.
CEO Steve Ballmer addressed this topic during his keynote, which was streamed live.
"You say, do people really want to use touch laptops?" he asked.
Well, if you ask Apple, the answer is no. But for Microsoft it's an important differentiator.
Ballmer continued. "I had a group of leaders of companies over for dinner the other night, and they were saying, 'really, I can just flip [this] through like I would on a tablet?'" he said, as he … Read more
Hewlett-Packard has priced its Envy x2 laptop-tablet hybrid at $849.99 -- a small tablet-laptop hybrid that runs the full version of Windows 8.
That price may be high for consumers, but HP is pushing it as a high-quality, high-end "hybrid PC" that effectively straddles both the laptop and tablet paradigms.
It comes with many of the ports found on a PC -- USB, HDMI, SD card slot -- a top-notch IPS display, a full-size keyboard with a large trackpad (what HP calls an Imagepad) for Windows 8 gestures, and a touch display that detaches to become a … Read more
China's largest PC maker, Lenovo, made a stunning announcement this week when it said it will make laptops, tablets, and desktops in the U.S.
So, why in the world would China's largest PC maker decide to manufacture devices here when America's two premier digital gadget suppliers, Apple and Hewlett-Packard, make virtually nothing in the U.S. and almost everything in China and/or Asia?
Needless to say, the answer is more complicated than "growth opportunities" in the U.S. -- as Yuanqing Yang, CEO of Lenovo, said in a statement.
And the move comes … Read more
HP chief executive Meg Whitman said during an interview with Fox Business Network that the PC giant is "working on" getting a new smartphone to market.
The firm previously had a range of Windows Mobile devices on offer for consumers and enterprises, but ditched the ailing operating system in favor of Palm, which was bought by HP in 2010. HP then ditched its Palm-based lineup last year.
But with a post-PC world future in which smartphones and tablets rule the roost, Whitman hinted that the company will build something from scratch.
"We have to ultimately offer a … Read more
Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman came out swinging in today's earnings conference call.
"We are under attack by very strong competitive pressures and we are going to respond," Whitman said when asked by an analyst about the PC business.
The company will respond with "two tablets, if you will, combined with laptops for the consumer space," according to Whitman.
This is in addition to the Windows 8 business tablet that HP has already discussed (see photo above).
She added that HP has "one of the best product lineups we've had in the PC business … Read more
HP saw revenue declines in four of its six units due to economic "headwinds" and ongoing restructuring efforts, the company said. Oh, and it also reported an $8.9 billion net loss for the third quarter.
In other words, HP is "still in the early stages of a multi-year turnaround," said HP CEO Meg Whitman.
HP's third quarter results came in largely as expected. HP telegraphed that it would take hefty charges related to its enterprise services unit.
Meanwhile, HP cut its fiscal 2012 outlook. The company said its non-GAAP earnings would be $4.05 … Read more
Ahead of its third-quarter earnings Wednesday, Hewlett-Packard is virtually absent in tablets, one of the hottest device markets today. And its fresh entry into the market will face an entrenched iPad ecosystem at businesses.
There's no guarantee that HP's upcoming Windows 8 Pro tablet aimed at corporate enterprise customers will stop the iPad's march into businesses, according to Rhoda Alexander at IHS iSuppli.
"It is the established leader in all of the markets. It has more of a reach into business, into education than its competitors," Alexander said, referring to the iPad. "The consistency … Read more
216Facebook Likes
435Tweets
111Google Plus Shares
CNET's Galaxy S4 giveaway spectacular!
CNET's publishing another supercharged e-book. "Mastering the Galaxy S4" is almost here, so we're celebrating with a huge S4-related giveaway.
