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Living With Complexity: How Apple Reinvented Music Distribution

6:00AM December 31, 2010 | Donald A. Norman

iTune’s dominant position atop the digital music market is not happenstance. Donald A. Norman discusses how, through the integration of its products, design and service, Apple became a media distribution juggernaut. More »


HP Says Goodbye To Windows Home Server Market

4:57AM December 2, 2010 | Sam Biddle

Now that HP owns Palm, it’s been made it clear they have little interest in selling Windows Home Server boxes. Zero interest, actually – they’ve announced they’re selling the rest of the inventory they’ve got and never looking back. More »


Wanted: HP’s CEO Is On The Lam

12:54PM November 9, 2010 | Business Insider

Oracle has hired private investigators to find out where in the world HP’s new CEO Leo Apotheker is hiding, Reuters reports. More »


The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett And I Built Our Company

4:00AM September 16, 2010 | David Packard and David W. Packard

With David Packard’s birthday passing last week and HP’s recent leadership woes, we at Gizmodo feel it’s time to remember early HP’s innovative founding culture. We bring you an inspiring excerpt from Packard’s book, with a foreword by his son. More »


HP Suing Mark Hurd To Protect Trade Secrets

5:47AM September 8, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

Mark Hurd, the former HP CEO who was ousted last month amidst allegations of sexual harassment, just got a new job title: Co-President of Oracle. Shortly thereafter, he got slapped with a civil complaint from his former employer who says that his new position will necessarily require him to divulge HP trade secrets: More »


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Palm webOS 2.0: Now This Is Multitasking

4:00AM September 1, 2010 | Matt Buchanan

WebOS 2.0. It’s really happening and it’s coming soon. Amidst the turmoil and the headlines and the doom-dropping, Palm’s been busy: webOS 2.0 looks like it’ll be better than the original in basically every way. More »


Foxconn Holds Anti-Suicide Rally In Shenzhen

4:40AM August 19, 2010 | Joel Johnson

Foxconn, the Taiwanese manufacturing titan troubled by a spate of suicides at its Shenzhen factory city, held a rally for its workers who were given T-shirts, pom-pons and – inexplicably – Spider-Man costumes. More »


Rumour: Jodie Fisher’s Cut After Ignoring Mark Hurd’s Advances

8:50PM August 18, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

Details continue to trickle out of HP’s Mark Hurd-shaped wound, with a “person close to the investigation” telling the Associated Press that Jodie Fisher claimed sexual harassment charges after she ceased receiving work offers from HP following her rebuffal of Hurd’s sexual advances. More »


Ousted HP CEO Mark Hurd Watched Jodie Fisher’s Racy Videos Online

6:08PM August 16, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

Sure, her Playboy spread was pretty sexy, but a CEO really shouldn’t be Googling* one of his hired marketing contractors whilst on the job. Computer analysis of Mark Hurd’s computer has discovered he watched some of Fisher’s saucy videos. More »


Suit Filed Against HP Over Former CEO Mark Hurd’s Resignation

11:16AM August 13, 2010 | Rosa Golijan

A lawsuit has been filed against the HP board of directors on behalf of a HP shareholder. The suit is alleging that the directors “violated their fiduciary duties in connection with the events surrounding the resignation” of former CEO Mark Hurd: More »