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HP boss Apotheker: It's good to be humongous

At the D9 conference, Hewlett-Packard CEO Leo Apotheker defended the tech giant's size compared with smaller companies (all tech companies are smaller) by highlighting HP's capability to provide integrated and complete solutions, especially to business customers.

Twenty-six percent of HP's business is in the consumer space. It's the right mix, Apotheker said, and he says the consumer research helps the company develop better commercial products. This was in part in reference to Eric Schmidt's claim, last night at this conference, that "IT is dying."

Interviewer Walt Mossberg asked Apotheker about HP's plans … Read more

Honda goes CR-Z crazy at SEMA 2010

Rounding the corner leading to Honda's booth at the 2010 SEMA Show in Las Vegas, I was a bit taken aback as I suddenly found myself confronted with the largest gathering of modified CR-Zs I'd ever seen, 12 in total. Heck, considering that the CR-Z has only been available for a handful of months, this was the largest gathering of any CR-Zs I'd ever seen. Most of these examples were built by third parties, but at the center of Honda's presentation was a trio of special compact hybrids built by Honda itself: a 2011 CR-Z equipped … Read more