Tag Archives: Hewlett-Packard

AMD Could Add ARM Faster Than Intel

by Roger Kay on April 16, 2011 in Personal Computing

This post initially appeared on Forbes.com April 4, 2011. This morning, AMD gave a press conference to discuss a renegotiated wafer supply agreement with Globalfoundries, which spun off from AMD into a separate entity in March 2009 and acquired Charter Semiconductor to broaden its supply capabilities in September 2009.  Wafers are the silicon disks on [...]

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Union Shop Or Open Shop?

by Roger Kay on April 16, 2011 in Personal Computing

This post initially appeared on Forbes.com April 1, 2011. Not long ago, I was riding the United Airlines “bus” from Boston to San Francisco, one of the few remaining non-stop cross-country flights, when I chanced to have an interchange with a stewardess while in the back waiting for the bathroom to free up. I was [...]

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Dystopia In The Lovely Walled Gardens

by Roger Kay on April 16, 2011 in Personal Computing

This post initially appeared on Forbes.com March 31, 2011. With each passing day, our experience of computing and communicating gets more restricted.  We hardly notice as the walls go up around what we can do on the Internet.  Some people never knew we had any freedoms in this domain to begin with.  Others shrug and [...]

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Shadow Market Keeps Computer Components Flowing

by Roger Kay on April 16, 2011 in Personal Computing

This post initially appeared on Forbes.com March 28, 2011. Minutes after the earthquake and tsunami hit the coast of Japan March 11, Tony Prophet, chief of supply chain operations at Hewlett-Packard (HP), was up and out of bed to see what could be done.  It was 3:30 a.m. California time and Prophet hopped on the [...]

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WebOS: Will It Make Hewlett-Packard A Winner In High Mobility?

by Roger Kay on April 16, 2011 in Personal Computing

This post initially appeared on Forbes.com March 21, 2011. Before the coming out party for Hewlett-Packard’s (HP’s) new CEO, Léo Apotheker, last week in San Francisco, I would have put my money on Microsoft to make number-three vendor in the high mobility space.  Now, it seems clear that HP — with its webOS — is [...]

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