The new company will be the second biggest PC company with a significant presence in nearly every market and country in the world, but life isn't going to be easy. Michael Kanellos is editor at large ...

A friend gave me a laptop to look at. About 90% of the time when you hit the power button the power led will come on and the fans will start up but nothing else happens. No beeps, no BIOS messages, ...

Shareholders opposed to the proposed marriage of Hewlett-Packard and Compaq Computer should be careful what they wish for: Undoing the $20 billion deal would unleash problems for both companies that ...

The two companies, whose shares are hovering near 52-week lows, plan to hold a press conference to discuss specifics of the transaction at 9 a.m. on Tuesday in New York. For solution providers, the ...

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With a shareholder vote two weeks away, Hewlett-Packard Co. got a crucial endorsement for its $22 billion acquisition of Compaq Computer Corp., increasing the companies' chances of completing the ...

I'm trying to get a COMPAQ Dual Channel Ultra2 LVD SCSI adapter with the SYMBIOS 53C896 chipset to work on my PC. I'm running a Tyan S1668 motherboard dual Ppro-200; with two Asus SC-875 SCSI UW cards ...

I’m really struck, as I wrote earlier this week, at how different, and I mean night and day different, the Dell/EMC merger is from the HP/Compaq merger. If I had a stronger term than night and day, ...

Ever since sales of personal computers began to slump last year, industry experts have been talking about consolidation as a way for struggling computing giants to weather the hard times. Now that ...

As Compaq Computer's future with Hewlett-Packard remains in flux, the PC maker appears to be positioning itself in case the companies' merger unravels. Over the weekend, Compaq CEO Michael Capellas ...