Oliver Shultz 27 March 2012, 00:05

Patent Troll Sues Apple, Dell, HP, 21 Others Over Automation

Patent Troll Sues Apple, Dell, HP, 21 Others Over Automation

It is a plot that we see several times every week.

An old patent gets snapped up by someone who creates a company around it and sues a bunch of easy targets to extract license fees in the hope that their potential victims want to avoid perhaps even higher fees following a court ruling. This here is one remarkable example.

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Oliver Shultz 22 March 2012, 12:01

HP: "We need to be more like Apple"

HP: We need to be more like Apple

The big news about HP today was the announcement that it would be merging its printer and PC divisions, but Meg Whitman and company made some interesting statements at Wednesday's shareholder meeting as well. According to Electronista, someone had the guts (audacity?) to ask Whitman if she had a 'vision' like the late Steve Jobs.

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Oliver Shultz 01 February 2012, 11:38

WebOS Chief Architect Also Leaves HP

WebOS Chief Architect Also Leaves HP

It's another Palm/webOS-based departure from HP, this time the company's webOS chief architect. Ouch.

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