Gizmodo: hp

HP Updates its ENVY 17 for Current 3D Micro-Trend [Laptops]

Gary Cutlack — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:50:04 EDT

HP's upgraded its ENVY range of laptops with the ENVY 17 3D. It doesn't take a genius to interpret the meaning of this model number—17" screen, with full 3D capabilities. More »

HP Holds Navy Network ‘Hostage’ for $3.3 Billion [Hp]

Noah Shachtman - Wired — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:20:00 EDT

Someday, somehow, the U.S. Navy would like to run its networks - maybe even own its computers again. More »

Palm WebOS 2.0: Now This Is Multitasking [Palm]

matt buchanan — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:00:00 EDT

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 »

HP Is Paying $55 Million To Settle Claims That It Defrauded The US Government [Hp]

Rosa Golijan — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:43:27 EDT

HP is about to pay $55 million in order to settle claims that it defrauded the US government. Apparently the computer giant's accused of offering kickbacks in order to ensure that its products were purchased by government agencies. More »

What Mysterious Device Is The CTO Of HP Playing With ? [Hp]

Casey Chan — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 13:51:40 EDT

One's big, one's small and the other's a wristwatch? That's what Phil McKinney, CTO of HP's Personal Systems Group, seems to be holding in his hand. Could it be a legit webOS tablet? Pre 2? Or a *gasp* webOSwatch? More »

HP Confirms That A WebOS Tablet Is Coming In "Early 2011" [Hp]

Rosa Golijan — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:39:00 EDT

There was gossip about a webOS tablet coming in early 2011, but now the timeline has been confirmed during an HP investor call. [PreCentral via Engadget] More »

Foxconn Holds Anti-Suicide Rally in Shenzhen [Foxconn]

Joel Johnson — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:40:00 EDT

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 »

Rumor: Jodie Fisher's HP Work Was Cut After She Ignored Mark Hurd's Advances [Hp]

Kat Hannaford — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 06:50:50 EDT

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 [Hp]

Kat Hannaford — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 04:08:00 EDT

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's Board Of Directors Over Former CEO Mark Hurd's Resignation [Lawsuits]

Rosa Golijan — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:16:21 EDT

A lawsuit has been filed against the HP board of directors on behalf of an 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 »

Top Aide to Ex-CEO Mark Hurd Leaves HP [Scandal]

Adam Frucci — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:31:00 EDT

Caprice Fimbres McIlvaine, former head of internal communications at HP and a top aide to Mark Hurd, has left the company. Why? Well, the fact that she was the person to got sexxxxy, lawsuit-firing Jodie Fisher hired might have something to do with it. But hey, I'm no detective. [Fortune] More »

Mark Hurd Was the Most Despised Major Tech CEO [Mark Hurd]

Adam Frucci — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:00:00 EDT

Of any major tech CEO, recently-ousted Mark Hurd of HP had the lowest approval ratings by his own employees: 34%. To compare: Steve Jobs has a whopping 98% rating, Larry Ellison is 88% and Ballmer is 52%. [TechCrunch] More »

The Playboy Spread of the Woman Who Took Down HP's CEO [Hp]

Brian Lam — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:33:02 EDT

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Gawker's got the Playboy photo of Jodie Fisher, who accused HP CEO Mark Hurd of sexual harassment. More »

Taiwanese News Animates HP Sex Scandal [Hp]

Kat Hannaford — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 02:57:00 EDT

The lure of a sex scandal (even if they just dined out a few times!), a softcore porn actress, and the world's largest PC maker was too much for this Taiwanese news outlet to bear. So, to the animation desk! More »

Apparently Former HP CEO Mark Hurd "Was A Thug" [Unconfirmed]

Rosa Golijan — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:13:39 EDT

Among all the talk about former HP CEO Mark Hurd came this particular gem: According to a former HP employee, he "was a thug" and nicknamed "Mark Turd" by folks who'd worked for him. More »

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atlasfugged — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:52:57 EDT

One of the most important and confounding questions in all of computer science is whether all decision problems (i.e. problems whose solutions are either YES or NO) with solutions that can be quickly verified by a computer are simultaneously decision problems whose solutions can be quickly computed. In other words, if the solution of a decision problem can be checked quickly, then does it follow, necessarily, that the solution can also be determined quickly? This question is referred to as the "P versus NP problem" or "P = NP?". It was one of the so-called Millennium Problems. (Recall that, earlier this year, Russian wierdo, Grigory Perelman turned down the $1-million prize for resolving the Poincaré Conjecture, the first of the Millennium Problems to be considered solved). The "P" is how researchers in complexity theory (a branch of computer science) refer to the class of decision problems that can be solved quickly, P (polynomial-time) problems. The "NP" refers to the class of decision problems whose solutions can be verified quickly, NP (non-deterministic polynomial time) problems. More »

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Wait—Who the Hell is Mark Hurd? [Hp]

Joe Brown — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:50:06 EDT

Howard Stringer is a goddamn knight. When Amazon bought Zappos, we saw Jeff Bezos' 8-minute YouTube video and wished he'd absorb our companies too. So now that HP's CEO has resigned, I gotta ask: Who the hell is Mark Hurd? More »

HP Reportedly Tells Employees webOS Tablet On Track For Q1 2011 [Unconfirmed]

Kyle VanHemert — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:05:52 EDT

Ever since HP's acquisition of Palm was announced in April, everyone's been clamoring about a webOS tablet. It could be very cool! And according to Engadget, Personal Systems Group VP Todd Bradley told HP employees that just such a product, codenamed Hurricane, was on track for the first quarter of 2011. Could the digital-pen using Palmpad of our dreams actually materialize early next year? Here's to hoping. [Engadget] More »

Vice President Who Was In Charge Of Designing The Pre Leaves Palm And HP [Palm]

Rosa Golijan — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 22:02:32 EDT

We knew that plenty of Palm employees left once HP acquired the company, but now we know the latest one to jump ship: Peter Skillman, Palm's Vice President of Design. Also known as the man who designed the Pre. More »

Oracle CEO Blasts HP Board For Ousting Mark Hurd [Blockquote]

Kyle VanHemert — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 18:30:07 EDT

Of all those offering their take on Mark Hurd's bizarre, unexpected resignation as HP's CEO, Lawrence Ellison, CEO of database software company Oracle, might be the loudest yet. He thinks HP's board just made a very stupid decision. More »

Former HP CEO's Accuser (and Softcore Porn Actress) Jodie Fisher Comes Forward [Hp]

Jack Loftus and Brian Lam — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 18:54:00 EDT

Jodie Fisher, the former HP contractor who sued former HP CEO Mark Hurd for sexual harassment, stated this evening that she is "surprised and saddened" he is without a job. And she was a softcore porn and reality TV actress. More »