Tag Archive 'HP'

Is Vista Capable? Maybe. Microsoft, not so much.

What do Microsoft and OJ have in common? Highly public courts cases with lots of incriminating evidence. But no amount of laywerly magic may be able to save Redmond from the public’s verdict.

Are tech firms faking job ads to avoid hiring US workers?

Companies like Hewlett Packard, Cisco, and others are being accused of skirting federal laws to hire foreign workers while laying off American geeks. Cringely labors to uncover the truth.

Geek Week: Comcast’s hit by vandals; an end to HP spying scandal

(This post originally appeared on Infoworld’s Notes From the Field Blog.)
Throttle this. Bit Torrent blocking Comcast got an education in the ways of the Net this week when hackers gained access to the ISP’s domain name records and redirected Comcast.net traffic to a vandalized site. Teenage hackers with the handles "Defiant" and "EBK" pwned the [...]

HP, AMD, and XP SP3 — three things that don’t go well together

(This post originally appeared on Infoworld’s Notes From the Field blog.)
Microsoft finally released XP’s Service Pack 3 to the masses last week, which is a bit like telling someone on death row you finally got around to fixing their car. Then it turns out your car may not really run, and if you have the [...]

HP: Bad motherboards, broken support, and the black arts

(This post originally appeared in Infoworld’s Notes From the Field blog.)
by Robert X. Cringely
Things have been kind of quiet lately on the Hewlett Packard front. There have been no recent spying scandals, no daily kerfuffles over what the CEO is doing, saying, or wearing. Bill Hewlett and David Packard have stopped spinning in their graves [...]