Tag archive: Carly Fiorina

While many were hoping for new colors and a larger capacity hard drive, Apple's latest iPod is available now only in white and only in 20GB or 40GB versions. From Apple's press release: Apple today introduced the new iPod, the fourth generation of the world's number one portable digital music player, featuring Apple's patent pending Click Wheel, which combines the smooth and continuous scrolling of a… Read More

Hewlett-Packard Co. filed a patent infringement lawsuit Thursday against Gateway Inc., alleging its rival refused to pay licensing fees on six HP patented designs. Alleged culprits included laptop hinges, keyboards that require passwords–even the cursor that points to icons on a computer's video display. According to HP attorneys who filed in San Diego federal court, Poway-based Gateway paid licensing fees from 1994 to 1999 to… Read More

HP and Apple announced a strategic alliance to deliver an HP-branded digital music player based on Apple's iPodâ„¢, the number one digital music player in the world, and Apple's award-winning iTunesdigital music jukebox and pioneering online music store to HP's customers. As part of the alliance, HP consumer PCs and notebooks will come preinstalled with Apple's iTunes® jukebox software and an easy-reference desktop… Read More

“Today marks a new beginning for consumers who have been turned off by complicated technology,” said Carly Fiorina, HP chairman and chief executive officer. “HP is using its unparalleled consumer knowledge and technical inventiveness to cut through the complexity and make technology a positive ingredient in people's lives – a way to connect, discover, entertain and get more things done. “Our vision is… Read More

…during his opening keynote at the 12th annual Windows® Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC). Gates showed the new PC prototype as just one example of the type of innovation required toaddress the needs of users — innovation that is only possible when hardware and software are developed together. Co-developed with HP and code-named “Athens,” the advanced PC prototype represents an evolution of the PC as a center… Read More