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WASHINGTON - Hewlett-Packard Co.'s ousted chairwoman told Congress on Thursday that she was assured by an outside investigator that the phone records of people targeted in a boardroom leak probe were obtained lawfully from public sources.Patricia Dunn, testifying before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said she was given ironclad assurances of the legality of the methods used in the company investigation and that the word "pretexting" "” impersonating people to obtain...
BOSTON (AP) - Insert your own punch line: Hewlett-Packard Co., the technology company facing federal and state investigations for spying on board members and journalists, is co-sponsor of an award for "privacy innovation."Nominees are currently being accepted for the fourth annual HP/IAPP Privacy Innovation award, which Hewlett-Packard gives in conjunction with the Maine-based International Association of Privacy Professionals.According to the award's Web site, the prize was created...
By Philipp Gollner and Kiyoshi Takenaka SAN FRANCISCO/TOKYO (Reuters) - Dell Inc. said on Monday it will recall 4.1 million notebook computer batteries because they could overheat and catch fire, in the biggest recall in its 22-year history. The world's largest personal computer maker blamed the voluntary recall on lithium-ion batteries made by Sony Corp., which Dell said could in rare cases produce smoke and catch fire. Dell, which expected no financial impact from the recall, said...
By Philipp Gollner and Kiyoshi Takenaka SAN FRANCISCO/TOKYO (Reuters) - Dell Inc. said on Monday it will recall 4.1 million notebook computer batteries because they could overheat and catch fire, in the biggest recall in its 22-year history. The world's largest personal computer maker blamed the voluntary recall on lithium-ion batteries made by Sony Corp., which Dell said could in rare cases produce smoke and catch fire. Dell, which expected no financial impact from the recall, said...
By Philipp GollnerSAN FRANCISCO -- Dell said on Monday it would recall 4.1 million notebook computer batteries because they could overheat and catch fire, in the biggest recall in the 22-year history of the world's largest personal computer maker.Dell blamed the voluntary recall, issued with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, on the lithium-ion batteries made by Sony Corp. unit Sony Energy Devices Corp., which Dell said could in rare cases produce smoke and catch fire.The batteries...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Dell Inc. on Thursday said it will cut back on mail-in rebates and simplify its pricing on computers after customers complained the process for getting the sale price was too complex. Analysts said the move would help Dell improve customer relations, but would not significantly boost sales as the world's biggest personal computer maker said the prices that customers ultimately pay for its products remain the same.Revenue growth at Dell, which sells directly to customers via...
PALO ALTO, California -- Garages are a thing of lore in Silicon Valley. Tucked away down a narrow driveway on a leafy, quiet street here is perhaps the most famous garage in the valley and, arguably, in all of the technology industry.It is the garage in which David Packard and William Hewlett launched Hewlett-Packard Co., now the world's second-largest computer maker and the biggest printer maker, which they founded in 1939 and named with a coin toss.Long considered the birthplace of Silicon...
DIPICHI, South Africa -- It is hard to believe that 19 shiny flat screen computers can cure the ills of this tiny community in South Africa's arid north where people battle every day against poverty, AIDS, illiteracy and hunger. Yet U.S. computer giant Hewlett-Packard Co. and South African President Thabo Mbeki are promoting Dipichi's smart new IT lab as a blueprint for how technology can trigger growth and tackle poverty across the world's poorest continent.Bridging the so-called digital...
BOSTON -- It's looking like it may be a slow holiday season for PC Plus, an independent retailer in Austin, Texas, that sells Toshiba and Acer computers. Business has dropped off significantly in the past month, says the company's president, Austin Bollfrass, who blames the decline on consumers' fears of a slowing economy in the wake of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, a protracted war in Iraq, and higher energy prices.Bollfrass doesn't expect business to pick up any time soon. "People are...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co. has recalled 135,000 battery packs for its laptop computers, citing a fire hazard, the world's second-largest personal computer maker said on Friday. HP said that an internal short in the HP and Compaq notebook lithium ion rechargeable battery packs can cause the battery cells to overheat and melt or char the plastic case, posing a burn and fire hazard. HP so far has received 16 reports of batteries overheating, including four in the...
