INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
In Oregon's Farmland, HP Seeks New Way To Milk Its Cash Cow
By Ken Spencer Brown
July 5, 2006
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
HP Ups the Ante In Printer Market By Going 'Scalable'
By Ken Spencer Brown
July 5, 2006
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Printer Ink Developers Fight 'Chunkies,' 'Froth'
Hewlett-Packard's team of chemists faces tasks on 'rocket science' level
By Ken Spencer Brown
July 5, 2006
USA TODAY
Top Popped On What Cellphone Technology Can Do For Us
By Kevin Maney
March 1, 2006
RED HERRING (part of cover story)
Sniffing Success: How Two Buyout Shops Fixed Network General
February 2006
DISCOVERY CHANNEL
How They Do It (11-minute broadcast segment on HP's design and manufacture of inkjet cartridges)
January 2006
DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
Network General To Name Bill Gibson As CEO
By Mark Boslet
December 12, 2005
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FORBES
Executive Toy Box: Network General CIO's Remote
By David M. Ewalt
September 16, 2005
BUSINESSWEEK
Print edition with graphic 1/3 page (and online)
Up Front: Ready To Pay? Give Them Your Paw
By Mara Der Hovanesian
July 11, 2005
FORBES.COM
The Digital Life
One-Fingered Discount At The Grocery Store
Arik Hesseldahl, 06.17.05, 10:00 AM ET
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Opposing Camps Could Slow Advances In Flash Memory
By James Detar
January 31, 2005
It's a lot easier to move files among PCs and consumer electronics products nowadays, in no small measure thanks to a tiny storage device called a USB flash drive.
Consumers are buying them by the millions. But the desire to be the spearhead of the next generation of flash drives has led to an industry fight that threatens to slow the advance of these popular products.
No. 1 USB flash drive seller SanDisk and partner M-Systems have unveiled a standard for the next generation of USB flash drives. . . .
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Q&A with Kevin Gilroy
Hewlett-Packard Molds Big Plans For Small, Midsize Business Field
A Major Growth Target Rebound from dot-bomb just now gaining steam in the huge SMB market
By Ken Spencer Brown
January 21, 2005
Technology sales to big corporations have remained sluggish in the lingering aftermath of the dot-com boom and bust.
But for smaller businesses, things are just getting started.
That's the view of Kevin Gilroy, a top executive in Hewlett-Packard's small and medium business, or SMB, unit.
He predicts that worldwide information technology sales for the segment will top analysts' projections of $810 billion by 2008, a figure that represents a healthy 11.4% jump from 2003 sales.
Why the optimism? He says smaller businesses are usually late in the technology adoption curve, and are finally starting to see what technology can do for them.
As the No. 1 seller in the small- and medium-business segment, HP plans to cash in on this trend in a big way, Gilroy says. He recently spoke with IBD about the company’s plans for this segment. . . .
BUSINESSWEEK
Cars, Cards, and a Secret Startup
By Olga Kharif
January 7, 2005
IN THE CARDS? Eli Harari, founder, president and CEO of SanDisk (SNDK ), the world's largest supplier of flash memory cards used to store data in everything from still cameras to cell phones, could soon start stepping on his customers' toes. In the past, these cards were mostly pretty dim devices, capable only of storing files. But on Jan. 7, SanDisk announced U3, a card that offers more security features and is being hailed as the first step toward turning memory cards into, essentially, smart computers.
You heard that right. In a few years, Harari believes all computing power will reside on memory cards, containing everything from work files to digital music to medical records. The cards will be inserted into whatever device is most convenient, be it a cell phone or a computer (the latter will be but a shell of its current self, simply a monitor and a keyboard).
"We're looking to create a completely new market of trusted devices," Harari tells BusinessWeek Online. He isn't carrying one in his pocket just yet: SanDisk has only a few prototypes, developed jointly with M-Systems Flash Disk Pioneers (FLSH ). The first U3s will become available this summer.
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
HP Bets On Branding In Fight Vs. Ink Knockoffs
By Ken Spencer Brown
December 7, 2004
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If choosy mothers choose Jif peanut butter, will picky computer users pick Vivera printer ink?
Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) hopes so. Aiming to convince buyers that all inks are not created equal, the printer maker has launched the Vivera line in its first attempt to give printer cartridges their own identity.
It's betting on branding, the concept that a name or image can reflect the qualities of the company behind it. It's what separates Jif from Skippy, Peter Pan and a bevy of private-label brands. It crowns Budweiser the king of beers. It has ensconced Coke as the "real thing" in the eyes of soda drinkers.
Now, HP is hoping a brand name can do all that for ink. . .
REUTERS NEWS
HP Sees Its Small, Medium Business Revs Up In 2005
November 30, 2004
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SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Revenue at Hewlett-Packard Co.'s (HPQ.N: Quote, Profile, Research) $24 billion small and medium-sized business unit will rise by double digits in 2005 as customers invest in mobile technology and security, the group's head said on Tuesday.
"We think there are huge opportunities," Kevin Gilroy, who runs HP's small and medium business (SMB) group, said in an interview. . . .
BUSINESSWEEK ONLINE
HP To Shoppers: Think About The Ink
NEWS ANALYSIS:TECHNOLOGY
By Olga Kharif
August 27, 2004
LA TIMES
HP Touts Its Image in Ink Sector
The firm is set to roll out a new brand as it fights to keep its lead in the profitable market.
By Terril Yue Jones, Times Staff Writer
August 27, 2004
RANCHO BERNARDO, Calif. — In the photopermanence room, behind massive steel vault doors, racks of special fluorescent bulbs bombard rows of photographs with intense light.
A month in the vault mimics 12 to 13 years in the real world and helps scientist Nils Miller develop printer ink for Hewlett-Packard Co. that keeps snapshots bright and colorful.
Images of grinning gap-toothed kids abound at Miller's tightly guarded lab outside San Diego, but this is serious work: A big chunk of HP's profit comes from printer ink, and the computer giant is determined to protect its dominance in the $4-billion U.S. market.
So important is ink to HP that the Palo Alto company today plans to roll out a new brand — called Vivera — that it hopes will make customers think about what's pumping through their printers the same way chip maker Intel Corp.'s Intel Inside campaign made them think about what's powering their personal computers. . . .
FINANCIAL TIMES
Saving A Packet On Phone Calls
By Paul Taylor and Rob Budden
July 21, 2004
FORBES.COM
Born Again Cisco
By Nikhil Hutheesing
June 30, 2004
NY TIMES
The Distributor vs. The Innovator
By Steve Lohr
May 24, 2004
SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS
Ink Is Important Business For Hewlett-Packard
By Dean Takahashi
April 12, 2004
In a business park perched on a hill in northern San Diego, 1,500 Hewlett-Packard employees toil away in labs and cubicles with single-minded devotion. They create more than 700 kinds of ink every month, running 7,000 tests on each one. H-P researchers know more about ink than anyone would ever want to know.
But then, they should. Ink is central to H-P's lucrative printer-supplies business. In fiscal 2003, printer supplies -- including ink and toner cartridges -- accounted for more than $12 billion in sales, or about 16 percent of H-P's revenue, and made up for losses across many other product lines, including printers. . . .
"H-P's ink business is the closest they come to printing money," said Mark Stahlman, an analyst at Caris & Co., a research firm in New York.
SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS
Whether Laser Or Inkjet, Technology Behind Printers Was Pioneered By HP
By Dean Takahashi
April 12, 2004
We take it for granted: Click an icon on your desktop computer and a document is printed in seconds. Yet there's an enormous amount of engineering and miniaturization behind today's laser and inkjet printing, much of it pioneered by Hewlett-Packard. . . .
CNBC - NATIONAL
Closing Bell
04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
July 11, 2005
3 minute broadcast segment on HP Science of Printing
Overview of segment:
Think Tank: A look at research and development lab for Hewlett - Packard. GR; HPQ price. V; Technologies made by Hewlett-Packard . I; Brian Keefe, H P Project Manager, talks about what is going on in the lab. I; John Stoffel, H P Ink Jet Technology Manager, talks about chart on the page. I; Nils Miller, H P Sr. Scientist, talks about canvas. Mike Hegedus Reporting.
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
As Labor Costs Climb, Firms Seek Tech Help
By J. Bonasia
May 18, 2004
Getting the right people to the right jobs is more important than ever.
Companies shell out more on labor these days than on capital spending. In fact, labor is the largest expense of doing business in developed economies. Yet many firms don't think of labor strategically. Instead they offload the issue to the human resources staff. . . .
SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS
XP In A Tiny Package; San Francisco Company OQO To Launch PDA That’s Fully PC-Compatible
By Dean Takahashi
April 21, 2004
For Jory Bell, creating a handheld computer that uses the full Windows XP operating system isn't a matter of if, but when.
As chief executive of San Francisco-based OQO, Bell has been trying for four years to create such a handheld. Now he says the product will be launched in the fall.
The company's 30 employees have produced several prototypes of its "ultra personal computer" that takes Windows into its final frontier in a handheld, where full PC compatibility could give it an advantage over rival Palm and PocketPC handhelds. . . .