Promoting Hurd is not a fitting punishment for HP
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A spanking only investors can be proud of Opinion Miss Manners tells us that when caught with your pants down, you're meant to pull them back up all the way. Under no circumstances should one allow gaudy, suggestive bits to remain dangling out for public consumption.â¦
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Dutch printer promotion merriment HP is currently running a campaign in the Netherlands to tempt punters to trade in their old printer for a new, shiny model.â¦
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Risks still remain for  Hewlett-Packard Co.  in the wake of its board leak  investigation scandal even as Mark Hurd's job at the helm of  the No. 2 computer maker appears secure, analysts said.
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California Attorney General Bill   Lockyer said on Friday he does not yet have evidence linking   Hewlett-Packard Co. HPQ.N Chief Executive Mark Hurd to crime   in the state's investigation of the computer maker.
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The company is far from resting on its laurels.
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A spokesman from the California attorney general's office Friday said that Attorney General Bill Lockyer at this point does not have any evidence to charge Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) Chief Executive Officer and President Mark Hurd with a criminal offense in the ongoing investigation intoÂ HP's probe of journalists and board members.
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InfoWorld - Hewlett-Packard's recent announcement regarding a pair of free and open source software projects has irked one of its co-sponsors, OpenLogic.
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(InfoWorld) - Hewlett-Packard Co. president and chief executive officer Mark Hurd, speaking at a user conference Monday in Houston, told customers the company's goal is to listen to them more and respond to their needs more quickly. In a keynote address at the HP Technology Forum, which made only passing reference to the scandal that has rocked the company for the last two weeks, Hurd said "HP has made a lot of progress, but we've got a lot more to do." HP is on track to record about US$91 billion in revenue and an operating profit of $8 billion to $9 billion in fiscal year 2006, he said. That leaves $83 billion in costs that the Palo Alto, California-based company still needs to scrutinize for efficiencies. HP announced in July 2005 a restructuring that would result in the elimination of 15,300 jobs to save $1.9 billion in operating costs by the end of its fiscal year Oct. 31. Hurd told the Houston audience that while cutting some jobs, it is creating others and reinvesting in other areas to develop new opportunities for growth. "We want to spend money to realign our IT and make those investments so in the long term we save money," he said. Randy Mott, HP's executive vice president and chief information officer, explained the progress of HP's consolidation of 85 of its own data centers into six centers, two each in Austin and Houston, Texas, and Atlanta, Georgia. HP projects that consolidation will save the company about $1 billion in IT costs over the next few years. The company gave some of the 5,000 attendees a tour of one of the Houston centers to see how they might consolidate their own IT infrastructures. Hurd's one applause line in his presentation was his admission that HP needs to be more responsive to customers during the sales cycle: "When we actually show up at the account, we actually get more business than when we don't. We're working on that right now." To be more responsive, HP has cut the length of contract terms and conditions by two-thirds to make them easier to understand, said Ann Livermore, executive vice president of the technology solutions group, in her keynote. That was welcome news to Sam Ayers of the Information Technology User (ITUG) Group, representing users of HP's NonStop server line. Ayers chaired an ITUG Advocacy Committee which pushed for the streamlined contract terms. "It took a long time for that to be decided, but it's here," he said. Ayers is an IT professional with Chase Paymentech Solutions LLC, the largest credit, debit and gift card payment processor in the U.S. Hurd took only a handful of pre-screened questions from the audience and after his speech was quickly escorted out of the convention center and into a waiting Lincoln sport utility vehicle. Aides and security guards prevented a reporter from approaching him with questions about the HP board scandal. State, federal and congressional investigations are probing allegations that HP hired a private investigations firm to find out who was leaking news of HP board deliberations to the media. The private agency allegedly obtained private phone records of directors and reporters under false pretenses to find out who they were calling. Media reports Monday said investigative methods also included physical surveillance of people and an attempt to install surveillance software on a reporter's computer. Hurd made only a brief reference to the scandal in his keynote. When he mentioned that Jack Novia, HP's managing director of the Americas region and senior vice president of the customer solutions group, was throwing out the first ball at a Houston Astros baseball game Tuesday evening, Hurd said: "I asked him not to embarrass the company, given the press coverage we've gotten over the last week."
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Hurd knows best HP's CEO Mark Hurd plans to stick with what he knows best: cost cutting.â¦
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A Hewlett-Packard Co.  director said on Wednesday Chief Executive Mark Hurd has the full support of the board and that there have been no discussions whether Hurd might resign amid the controversy over the company's investigation into boardroom leaks.
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In his keynote to the HP Technology Forum, CEO Mark Hurd says company must continue to reduce costs so it can invest in innovation.
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HP CEO Mark Hurd says HP needs to invest more in its storage sales organization to boost sales.
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HP (NYSE:HPQ) (Nasdaq:HPQ) today announced that Mark Hurd, HP chief executive officer and president, has offered to appear at the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing on Thursday, Sept. 28.
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Hewlett-Packard Co. announced today that Patricia Dunn will be replaced as HP chairwoman in January by CEO Mark Hurd. The move follows a scandal related to leaks from the company's board of directors.
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HP exec Mark Hurd reaches out to employees as the company decides how to react to this week's boardroom pretexting scandal.
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Dunny flushed Patricia Dunn has not survived the HP spy scandal â a turn of events that everyone except HP saw as inevitable long ago. Dunn today resigned from HP's board, elevating CEO Mark Hurd to the Chairman role.â¦
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HP (NYSE:HPQ)(Nasdaq:HPQ) today announced that Mark Hurd, HP chief executive officer and president, has been appointed to the additional role of chairman, succeeding Patricia Dunn, who is leaving the company's board, effective immediately.