HP is expanding a voluntary worldwide program for batteries that shipped with many ENVY, Pavilion, ProBook, and other laptops, due to their "potential to overheat, posing a fire and burn hazard".
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HP has announced that, while it will be keeping its Compaq branding for "basic computing" products, it will finally be ditching the "HP Compaq" brand sometime in 2013.
In the wake of HP's announcement that it is thinking about spinning off its PC business, the head of Dell tweets a suggestion for what the new name of that division should be.
It has been a few years since flaws in Nvidia's mobile GeForce 7000-series and 8000-series chips caused overheating problems, prompting users to send laptops back en masse to manufacturers. Laptop users of almost all makes...
Whats that... did you spot the paradox too?! heh - corporate types eh :| "LONDON - November 11, 2002 - Extending its track record for innovation in the mobile space, NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq:...
When scientists at Celera Genomics and the government-funded Human Genome Project created their maps of all human genes, one indisputable winner was Compaq Computer. Both groups used Compaq supercomputers. Today, Celera announced that it would...
Last week we reported a product recall - sorry replacement - of 300,000 faulty Fujitsu hard drives (possibly only in Japan. Fujitsu is not saying). Dozens of Compaq corporate customers, collectively owning...
Compaq Australia may be facing a class action lawsuit from irate customers who feel duped by the hardware manufacturer's accidental Web site promotion of Presario laptop computers costing just one cent. ZDNet...
We hung round waiting for the appropriate authorities at AMD to get back to us about the Compaq notebook with apparently 512K cache that AMD Zone wrote about yesterday. But the authorities are...
Compaq has issued a customer advisory notice for the SD memory card. This may fail "after a short period of use". in the iPAQ H3800 Series Pocket PC, the company says. The...
Both Hewlett-Packard and Compaq have claimed victory in votes which took place this week that were to decide the outcome of a proposed marriage of the companies. Compaq CEO Michael Capellas said Wednesday shareholders overwhelmingly...
Compaq Computer Corp. and Singapore's Nanyang Technological University (NTU) agreed on Tuesday to invest $6.8 million to develop the largest life sciences supercomputing facility in the region. The costs, shared equally...
Compaq Computer won't seek another buyer if its $21.3 billion merger with Hewlett-Packard falls through, Compaq CEO Michael Capellas says. H-P is the "only deal for Compaq. I can't see any other combination...
Unix server vendors just love benchmarks, which means, we guess that their corporate clients think they're pretty important to. Compaq is no exception, even as its own Alpha CPU platform begins the...
Thanks Darren Bolton for this sending this in. Counterfeit Compaq Computer Corp. parts were seized in New Hampshire after the company was contacted by a customer who received suspect memory boards from an...
Thanks Sleeper for sending this in! For three months, the fight between Carly Fiorina and Walter Hewlett remained cordial and cool. Fiorina, the Hewlett-Packard Co. chief executive, and board member Hewlett, the...
Compaq Computer Corp. Chief Executive Michael Capellas said on Wednesday his company and Hewlett-Packard Co. were determined to hold shareholder votes in March on their $22.3 billion merger, and said regulatory approval was on track...
Internal polls show a majority of Hewlett-Packard Co.HWP.N employees support plans to buy Compaq Computer Corp.CPQ.N, the company said on Friday, although a leading critic of the merger said an independent survey was needed. ...
Compaq easily topped Wall Street's fourth-quarter 2001 earnings expectations, taking $US92 million ($178 million) for the period. The Houston-based computer maker, which informed investors last week it likely would make money, turned...
Because the hurricane was nearing, Compaq's Houston Hannah, a disillusioned member of the ISSG group at the outfit, had to dash off to display her ID at the usual below-the-belt regulation spot, but not before...
Compaq Computer has snared two mammoth three-year contracts, one with defense contractor Raytheon for $200 million to $250 million and one with Swedish cell phone maker Ericsson for $150 million. Compaq beat...
Compaq Computer is teaming with RealNetworks to promote the media company's new online subscription service, dubbed RealOne. Under a deal expected to be announced Wednesday, RealNetworks plans to become the default media...
American Express Co. has signed a deal with Compaq Computer Corp. to buy 25,000 thin-client machines to replace existing desktop and laptop computers throughout the company. In an announcement today, the New York-based...
The statement said: "Compaq and Intel worked together to resolve the reported issue (sighting). "Compaq expects to introduce its Itanium-based systems shortly. "A BIOS software configuration change was made to...
CORPORATE USERS wanting to buy Itanium machines are being told that the processors are going through rigorous testing but the INQUIRER can now confirm there is a serious bug with 733MHz and 800MHz versions of...
Compaq said on Wednesday that it has a new financing plan that will allow businesses to defer payments during the first four months of a lease on any product or service. It...
Whoops! Sorry about that... Thanks WinOSCentral for the heads up on this one.. The company on Thursday issued a recall for the AC power adapters and their cords, used with Compaq Armada...
Compaq Computer Corp. will offer free upgrades to Microsoft Corp.'s Windows XP Home Edition operating system for most Presario computers purchased in North America on or after Sept. 1, the company announced. Presario...
The computer giants Hewlett-Packard and Compaq are planning a $25bn (£17.2bn) merger. The deal would create a company of a size to rival industry giant IBM, which is currently worth $90bn. Even...
