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Today in Tech: Steve Jobs wanted Android destroyed
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"You're headed for a one-term presidency." -- Steve Jobs to Barack Obama (The Huffington Post)
"I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product ... I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this." -- Jobs on Google Android (Bloomberg)
* A few tidbits leaked in advance of Walter Isaacson's biography MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Oct 21, 2011 3:30 AM ET -
Good luck, Meg. You'll need it.
Meg Whitman's experience at eBay may make her seem qualified to lead HP's turnaround. But most tech turnarounds -- when they work -- take several years. And this one is likely to be very difficult.
By Kevin Kelleher, contributor
FORTUNE -- Most seasoned executives have their share of career ups and downs. And then there's Meg Whitman.
Whitman presided over eBay's rise from a scrappy startup to an e-commerce giant worth $75 billion MORE
Oct 13, 2011 12:40 PM ET -
Today in Tech: Why Steve Jobs wore turtlenecks
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* The initial crop of iPhone 4S reviews are out, and while the smartphone's chassis might look virtually identical to its predecessor, the upgraded components -- a dual-core processor, 8-megapixel camera, among them -- and brand spanking new software (hello, Siri) are enough to make the phone another successful Apple (AAPL) MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Oct 12, 2011 3:30 AM ET -
The iPad has this Christmas nearly to itself, says Gartner
Expected to account for 73.4% of a market that has grown more than 260% since 2010
Gartner Inc. is a lot better at telling you what's already happened than predicting what's about to.
Witness Thursday's report on worldwide tablet sales in which it describes Apple (AAPL) as having a "free run" in the tablet market this coming holiday season, accounting for nearly three quarters of the 63.6 million units sold before the MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 22, 2011 11:29 AM ET -
Today in Tech: HP to lay off 500+ employees
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* Sources tell All Things D that HP (HPQ) is laying off as many as 525 employees whose work related to (now-defunct) webOS hardware. Indeed, in a statement, HP confirmed layoffs start this week but declined to specify the number. (All Things D)
* As reported yesterday, Google Wallet is now live, MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Sep 20, 2011 3:30 AM ETPosted in: Chris Ziegler, F8, Facebook, Google Checkout, google wallet, HP, Netflix, Reed Hastings, StyleCaster, WebOS -
Why would HP make more TouchPads to sell at a loss?
No, they don't plan to produce "one last run" in order to make it up in volume
Can you spot the dissemblance in the announcement posted Monday on Hewlett-Packard's (HPQ) The Next Bench blog?
Despite announcing an end to manufacturing webOS hardware, we have decided to produce one last run of TouchPads to meet unfulfilled demand. We don't know exactly when these units will be available or how many we'll get, and MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 31, 2011 11:51 AM ETPosted in: Apple, DigiTimes, Hewlett-Packard, HP, iPad, Manufacturing, Public relations, supply chain, Tablets, TouchPad, WebOS -
What Fiorina really thinks of HP's plans
HP's plan to sell or spin-off its PC decision was viewed as the undoing of Carly Fiorina's grand vision. Today, she weighed in on the decision.
FORTUNE -- The interviewer in this Bloomberg TV clip wonders whether Hewlett Packard has mismanaged its PC business, forcing the company to make the surprise announcement last week that it's shopping its Personal Systems Group. "It's not for me to say," said interviewee Carly Fiorina, MORE
Dan Mitchell, contributor - Aug 24, 2011 4:23 PM ET -
Apple and HP went on a Silicon Valley hiring spree in July
Apple was No. 1 and HP was No. 6 in San Jose metro area job listings
Apple (AAPL) topped list in the San Jose/Sunnyvale/Santa Clara metropolitan area with 847 help-wanted ads, according to a survey conducted by the California labor department in July 2011.
It was followed by Yahoo (YHOO), Lockheed Martin (LMT), eBay (EBAY), Stanford University and -- of all companies -- Hewlett-Packard (HPQ).
HP was trying to fill 358 positions in MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 23, 2011 6:29 AM ET -
Hitler's TouchPad
A news event worthy of a "Downfall" parody (Warning: not safe for office viewing)
I know. I know.
Parodies of Oliver Hirschbiegel's "Downfall" are among the stalest jokes on YouTube. The film's original subtitles have been rewritten to cover everything from Kanye West's diss of Taylor Swift to Apple's (AAPL) rejection of the Fuhrer's Flash app.
But this one -- from the 3:49 scene when Hitler learns that the war is truly lost -- MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 22, 2011 1:01 PM ETPosted in: Adolf Hitler, Apple, Downfall, Fuhrer, Hewlett-Packard, Hitler, HP, Kanye West, Oliver Hirschbiegel, Taylor Swift, TouchPad, YouTube -
HP's PCs: The handwriting was in Léo Apotheker's resumé
The board sealed the fate of HP's personal systems group when it hired the CEO of SAP
What the hell happened to Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) last week?
The simplest explanation is the one suggested Thursday by Techcrunch's MG Siegler and picked up Sunday by Daring Fireball's John Gruber: HP's board put an enterprise software guy in charge of a low-margin PC business and a high-risk play to outflank Apple (AAPL) in smartphones and tablets. When MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 22, 2011 8:02 AM ETPosted in: Apple, Booz Allen Hamilton, Hewlett-Packard, HP, IBM, iPad, iPhone, Léo Apotheker, Mobile, Oracle Corporation, Pre, SAP, SAP AG, Smartphones, Tablets, TouchPad
