Using the iPad for School and Updating the Droid Incredible
Q: We have two daughters, ages 14 and 13. Both are big users of our sole family computer to watch TV shows on the Web as well as to do their school work. Could an iPad serve as their school/recreation...
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Meet the Yahoo Board: Something Old, Something New–But Will They Do Something?
With all the noisy swirl around Yahoo of late–from its executive turmoil to its flat growth to its dashed partnerships in Asia to its brash CEO–its board has been unusually quiet of late. Comatose,...
View ArticleWorking With AirPrint
Q: How does Apple’s AirPrint work? And what new things would I have to get to make it work? A: AirPrint allows certain apps on an iPhone or iPad to wirelessly print to locally networked printers....
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Rupert Murdoch Introduces the Daily, His iPad Newspaper
It’s time, finally, for News Corp. to show off the Daily, the iPad newspaper it has been building for some six months. This debut was supposed to happen a few weeks ago in San Francisco, with Rupert...
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Use a Tablet, Save a Tree
Ironic, isn’t it, that Hewlett-Packard touts wireless printing as one of the TouchPad’s big selling points, when the tablet form-factor to some extent obviates the need to print. By providing us with...
View ArticleMobile Printing Start-Up Breezy Raises $750,000 in Seed Funding
Breezy, a mobile printing start-up, said on Tuesday that it had landed $750,000 in seed funding from investors including Jeff Clavier of SoftTech VC, Aydin Senkut of Felicis Ventures, Rich Wong of...
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Another Facebook Movie Coming–But This Time With AOL As Co-Star
You can chillax, Mark Zuckerberg–it’s not “The Social Network 2: The Winklevii Stroke, Stroke, Strooooke Back.” In fact, it’s more like: “You’ve Got Social Network Mail.” That’s because Facebook and...
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Whoops, HP Just Bought Another Company
On Hewlett-Packard’s last earnings call, CEO Meg Whitman told analysts that they should assume that HP would be doing no large acquisitions or mergers in 2012. It will be a year, she said, for...
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Seven Questions About Printing for Lexmark CEO Paul Rooke
When you consider the fact that Lexmark is a printer company — and not even an especially large one by comparison to others in the business — you might intuitively conclude that it’s a company on the...
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There's a Storm Ahead for HP's Printer Business
When the troubled IT giant Hewlett-Packard reports its quarterly results tomorrow, most analysts expect it to come through and meet — and perhaps even beat — some already diminished expectations. Yet...
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A Hint at Changes Coming to HP's Printing Business
Start up a conversation about the recent troubles at Hewlett-Packard with anyone who doesn’t follow the tech industry closely and, at least in my experience, the first question that comes up is about...
View ArticleKodak's Patent Allure Fades
Eastman Kodak Co.’s effort to draw interest in the sale of its digital patent portfolio is flagging, people familiar with the matter said, complicating the 132-year-old photography pioneer’s chances of...
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Debt Markets Aren't Only Worried About HP, but Dell and Others, Too
Last week I wandered a bit into the financial weeds to take notice of the fact that someone appears to be getting nervous about Hewlett-Packard and the prospects of its ability to make good on its...
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HP Sails Into Perfect Storm for Printers
Pop quiz: When was the last time you bought a printer? Or an ink cartridge? Or a package of printer paper? Of course, the answer is going to vary from one situation to another, but chances are you’re...
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Should HP Break Up or Stay Together?
Neil Sedaka or Jack Johnson? Honestly, this is all beginning to sound a little too much like a bad mix from a lite-FM radio station. But here it is: Should Hewlett-Packard be broken up into parts, or...
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The HP Breakup Idea Gets Another Look
Let’s face it — between the unfolding slowdown in the PC and printing business, the write-offs for the services unit and the Autonomy acquisition — 2012 was a lousy year for Hewlett-Packard. HP’s stock...
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Maker of 3-D Printed Guns Speaks Out at SXSW: They're Real, and They're Not...
There’s been a fair amount of attention on 3-D printing this week at SXSW, and most of it wasn’t focused on guns. Until today. Cody Wilson, a law student at University of Texas and founder of a...
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HP Faces Trouble on Every Side Ahead of Earnings Report
When it reports quarterly earnings on Wednesday, Hewlett-Packard will give the latest update on efforts by CEO Meg Whitman to turn the troubled technology giant around. After last week’s huge earnings...
View ArticleWindows Version of Quicken on the Mac
Q: The only hesitation I have about switching to the Mac concerns Quicken. I have used that program on Windows for over 20 years. All the reviews on the Mac version are less than favorable. If I...
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HP's Q2 Earnings Beat Expectations on Weak Sales
Quarterly results from Hewlett-Packard just crossed the wires and they’re better than expected on the bottom line, but weaker on the top. Per-share earnings were 87 cents, down 4.4 percent from a year...
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Is HP's Turnaround Strategy Sustainable?
The fundamental problem facing the technology giant Hewlett-Packard is that some of the products that make up its biggest lines of business are in a long-term decline, and that new products aren’t yet...
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MakerBot Sells to Stratasys for $403M -- Plus $201M for Earn-Outs -- as 3-D...
The democratizing of 3-D printing just saw its first big deal, with the sale of MakerBot to Stratasys for $403 million in stock, with an additional $201 million in performance-based earn-outs....
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Two Ways to Hit "Print" on a Mobile Device
[ See post to watch video ] I haven’t used a printer in my home for the past decade, thanks mostly to my reliance on digital smartphone and tablet screens, along with limited living space. Though paper...
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HP Is Swimming Upstream as Turnaround Efforts Falter
Shares of the computing giant Hewlett-Packard opened lower by more than nine percent this morning after the company reported third-quarter earnings that fell short of consensus expectations, and as CEO...
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HP Closes the Book on 2013, but 2014 Doesn't Look Much Better
Hewlett-Packard, the computing and IT giant that is heading into its third year of a multiyear turnaround effort will post quarterly earnings after the markets close on Tuesday. It will be the first...
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