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Hewlett-Packard Company

Type Public (NYSE: HPQ)

Founded Palo Alto, California (1939)

Bill Hewlett,
Co-founder
Founder(s)
David Packard,
Co-founder

Headquarters Palo Alto, CA, USA

Area served Worldwide

Key people Mark V. Hurd

President, CEO & Chairman
Catherine A. Lesjak
CFO
Ann M. Livermore
EVP, Technology Solutions Group
Todd Bradley
EVP, Personal Systems Group
Vyomesh Joshi
EVP, Imaging & Printing Group
 Shane V. Robison
EVP, Chief Strategy & Technology
Officer
Same role at Compaq
Pete Bocian
EVP, Chief Administrative Officer
Randy Mott
EVP, CIO
Marcela Perez de Alonso
EVP, HR

Computer Systems
Computer Peripherals
Industry Computer Software
Consulting
IT Services

Computer Monitors
Digital Cameras
Indigo Digital Press
Networking
Personal Computers and Laptops
Personal Digital Assistants
Products
Printers
Scanners
Servers
Storage
Televisions
List of HP products

Revenue ▲ US$ 118.364 billion (2008)

Operating income ▲ US$ 10.473 billion (2008)

Net income ▲ US$ 10.473 billion (2008)

 Total assets ▲ US$ 113.331 billion (2008)

Total equity ▲ US$ 38.942 billion (2008)

Employees 321,000 (2008)[1]

Compaq
Snapfish
HP Labs
Divisions
ProCurve
EDS
VoodooPC

Website HP.com

HP Welcome sign at main entrance of headquarters

Main entrance of HP United States offices in unincorporated Harris County, Texas

HP branch office in Rehovot, Israel

First company logo.

Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HPQ), commonly referred to as HP, is a technology
corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, United States. HP has its United States
offices at the former old Compaq Campus in unincorporated Harris County, Texas, Latin
America offices in Miami-Dade County, Florida, U.S., Europe offices in Geneva, and Asia-
Pacific offices in Singapore.[2][3][4] HP is the largest technology company in the world and
operates in nearly every country. HP specializes in developing and manufacturing computing,
storage, and networking hardware, software and services. Major product lines include personal
computing devices, enterprise servers, related storage devices, as well as a diverse range of
printers and other imaging products. Other product lines, including electronic test equipment and
systems, medical electronic equipment, solid state components and instrumentation for chemical
analysis were spun off as Agilent Technologies in 1999.
HP markets its products to households, small to medium size businesses and enterprises both
directly, via online distribution, consumer-electronics and office-supply retailers, software
partners and major technology vendors.
HP posted US $91.7 billion in annual revenue in 2006[5] compared to US$91.4 billion for IBM,
making it the world's largest technology vendor in terms of sales. In 2007 the revenue was $104
billion,[6] making HP the first IT company in history to report revenues exceeding $100 billion.[7]
HP acquired EDS in 2008 to fill the gap in its technology services portfolio. With HP-EDS
combined revenues of US$ 118.4 Billion in 2008 and a Fortune 500 ranking of 9 in 2009[8], HP
retained its worlds largest technology company position.
HP is the largest worldwide seller of personal computers, surpassing rival Dell, according to
market research firms Gartner and IDC reported in January 2008;[9] the gap between HP and Dell
widened substantially at the end of 2007, with HP taking a near 3.9% market share lead. HP is
also the 5th largest software company in the world.[10] In 2008 HP retained its global leadership
position in inkjet, laser, large format and multi-function printers market. Also HP become #2
globally in IT services as reported by IDC & Gartner[8]. It is one of the only American PC-
focused computer companies publicly traded under the NYSE.

Contents
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• 1 Company history
○ 1.1 Founding
○ 1.2 Early years
○ 1.3 The 1960s
○ 1.4 The 1970s
○ 1.5 The 1980s
○ 1.6 The 1990s
○ 1.7 2000 and beyond
• 2 Technology and products
○ 2.1 Imaging and Printing Group (IPG)
○ 2.2 Personal Systems Group (PSG)
○ 2.3 Technology Solutions Group (TSG)
 2.3.1 Enterprise Storage and Servers Group (ESS)
 2.3.2 HP Software & Solutions
 2.3.3 ProCurve Networking Business Unit
○ 2.4 Office of Strategy and Technology
 2.4.1 HP Labs
 2.4.2 HP IdeaLab
• 3 Environmental record
• 4 HP Certified Professionals
• 5 Sponsorships
• 6 Product legacy
• 7 Culture
• 8 Controversy
○ 8.1 HP pretexting scandal
 8.1.1 Investigation by the government
 8.1.2 Perceived impact on the company's operations
 8.1.3 Traceable e-mail
• 9 Advertising
○ 9.1 The Computer Is Personal Again
 • 10 Management
○ 10.1 History
• 11 User Groups
• 12 See also
• 13 References
• 14 External links

[edit] Company history

[edit] Founding
William (Bill) Hewlett and David (Dave) Packard both graduated in electrical engineering from
Stanford University in 1935. The company originated in a garage in nearby Palo Alto during a
fellowship they had with a past professor, Frederick Terman at Stanford during the Great
Depression. Terman was considered a mentor to them in forming Hewlett-Packard.[11] In 1939,
Packard and Hewlett established Hewlett-Packard (HP) in Packard's garage with an initial capital
investment of US$538.[12] Hewlett and Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they
founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett. Packard won the coin toss but
named their electronics manufacturing enterprise the "Hewlett-Packard Company". HP
incorporated on August 18, 1947, and went public on November 6, 1957.
Of the many projects they worked on, their very first financially successful product was a
precision audio oscillator, the Model HP200A. Their innovation was the use of a small light bulb
as a temperature dependent resistor in a critical portion of the circuit. This allowed them to sell
the Model 200A for $54.40 when competitors were selling less stable oscillators for over $200.
The Model 200 series of generators continued until at least 1972 as the 200AB, still tube-based
but improved in design through the years. At 33 years, it was perhaps the longest-selling basic
electronic design of all time.
One of the company's earliest customers was The Walt Disney Company, which bought eight
Model 200B oscillators (at $71.50 each) for use in certifying the Fantasound surround sound
systems installed in theaters for the movie Fantasia.
[edit] Early years
The company was originally rather unfocused, working on a wide range of electronic products
for industry and even agriculture. Eventually they elected to focus on high-quality electronic test
and measurement equipment.
From the 1940s until well into the 1990s the company concentrated on making electronic test
equipment – signal generators, voltmeters, oscilloscopes, frequency counters, thermometers, time
standards, wave analyzers, and many other instruments. A distinguishing feature was pushing the
limits of measurement range and accuracy; many HP instruments were more sensitive, accurate,
and precise than other comparable equipment.[citation needed]
Following the pattern set by the company's first product, the 200A, test instruments were labelled
with three to five digits followed by the letter "A". Improved versions went to suffixes "B"
through "E". As the product range grew wider HP started using product designators starting with
a letter for accessories, supplies, software, and components.
[edit] The 1960s
HP is recognized as the symbolic founder of Silicon Valley, although it did not actively
investigate semiconductor devices until a few years after the "Traitorous Eight" had abandoned
William Shockley to create Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957. Hewlett-Packard's HP Associates
division, established around 1960, developed semiconductor devices primarily for internal use.
Instruments and calculators were some of the products using these devices.
HP partnered in the 1960s with Sony and the Yokogawa Electric companies in Japan to develop
several high-quality products. The products were not a huge success, as there were high costs in
building HP-looking products in Japan. HP and Yokogawa formed a joint venture (Yokogawa-
Hewlett-Packard) in 1963 to market HP products in Japan.[13] HP bought Yokogawa Electric's
share of Hewlett-Packard Japan in 1999.[14]
HP spun off a small company, Dynec, to specialize in digital equipment. The name was picked
so that the HP logo "hp" could be turned upside down to be the logo "dy" of the new company.
Eventually Dynec changed to Dymec, then was folded back into HP. HP experimented with
using Digital Equipment Corporation minicomputers with its instruments. But after deciding that
it would be easier to buy another small design team than deal with DEC, HP entered the
computer market in 1966 with the HP 2100 / HP 1000 series of minicomputers. These had a
simple accumulator-based design, with registers arranged somewhat similarly to the Intel x86
architecture still used today. The series was produced for 20 years, in spite of several attempts to
replace it, and was a forerunner of the HP 9800 and HP 250 series of desktop and business
computers.
[edit] The 1970s
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The HP 3000 was an advanced stack-based design for a business computing server, later
redesigned with RISC technology, that has only recently been retired from the market. The HP
2640 series of smart and intelligent terminals introduced forms-based interfaces to ASCII
terminals, and also introduced screen labeled function keys, now commonly used on gas pumps
and bank ATMs. Although scoffed at in the formative days of computing, HP would eventually
surpass even IBM as the world's largest technology vendor in sales.[citation needed]

"The new Hewlett-Packard 9100A personal computer is ready, willing, and able ... to relieve you
of waiting to get on the big computer."
HP is identified by Wired magazine as the producer of the world's first marketed, mass-produced
personal computer, the Hewlett-Packard 9100A, introduced in 1968.[15] HP called it a desktop
calculator because, as Bill Hewlett said, "If we had called it a computer, it would have been
rejected by our customers' computer gurus because it didn't look like an IBM. We therefore
decided to call it a calculator, and all such nonsense disappeared." An engineering triumph at the
time, the logic circuit was produced without any integrated circuits; the assembly of the CPU
having been entirely executed in discrete components. With CRT display, magnetic-card storage,
and printer, the price was around $5000. The machine's keyboard was a cross between that of a
scientific calculator and an adding machine. There was no alphabetic keyboard.[citation needed]
Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, originally designed the Apple I computer while working at
HP and offered it to them under their right of first refusal to his work, but they did not take it up
as the company wanted to stay in scientific, business, and industrial markets.[citation needed]
The company earned global respect for a variety of products. They introduced the world's first
handheld scientific electronic calculator in 1972 (the HP-35), the first handheld programmable
in 1974 (the HP-65), the first alphanumeric, programmable, expandable in 1979 (the HP-41C),
and the first symbolic and graphing calculator, the HP-28C. Like their scientific and business
calculators, their oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and other measurement instruments have a
reputation for sturdiness and usability (the latter products are now part of spin-off Agilent's
product line). The company's design philosophy in this period was summarized as "design for the
guy at the next bench".[citation needed]
The 98x5 series of technical desktop computers started in 1975 with the 9815, and the cheaper
80 series, again of technical computers, started in 1979 with the 85[1]. These machines used a
version of the BASIC programming language which was available immediately after they were
switched on, and used a proprietary magnetic tape for storage. HP computers were similar in
capabilities to the much later IBM Personal Computer, although the limitations of available
technology forced prices to be high.[citation needed]
[edit] The 1980s
In 1984, HP introduced both inkjet and laser printers for the desktop. Along with its scanner
product line, these have later been developed into successful multifunction products, the most
significant being single-unit printer/scanner/copier/fax machines. The print mechanisms in HP's
tremendously popular LaserJet line of laser printers depend almost entirely on Canon's
components (print engines), which in turn use technology developed by Xerox. HP develops the
hardware, firmware, and software that convert data into dots for the mechanism to print.
March 3 1986, HP registered the HP.com Domain name which is among the very first Internet
Domains to be registered. This gives HP the position today to be one of the very few large
corporations worldwide to own a two letter domain name.[16]
In 1987, the Palo Alto garage where Hewlett and Packard started their business was designated
as a California State historical landmark.
[edit] The 1990s
In the 1990s, HP expanded their computer product line, which initially had been targeted at
university, research, and business customers, to reach consumers.
HP also grew through acquisitions, buying Apollo Computer in 1989 and Convex Computer in
1995.
Later in the decade HP opened hpshopping.com as an independent subsidiary to sell online,
direct to consumers; in 2005 the store was renamed "HP Home & Home Office Store."
In 1999, all of the businesses not related to computers, storage, and imaging were spun off from
HP to form Agilent. Agilent's spin-off was the largest initial public offering in the history of
Silicon Valley.[17] The spin-off created an $8 billion company with about 30,000 employees,
manufacturing scientific instruments, semiconductors, optical networking devices, and electronic
test equipment for telecom and wireless R&D and production.
In July 1999, HP appointed Carly Fiorina as CEO, the first female CEO of a company in the
Dow Jones Industrial Average. Fiorina served as CEO during the tech downtown of the turn of
the 2nd millennium. During her tenure, the market halved HP’s value commensurate with other
tech companies at the time and the company incurred heavy job losses.[18] The HP Board of
Directors asked Fiorina to step down in 2005, and she resigned on February 9, 2005.
[edit] 2000 and beyond
Compaq merger. HP merged with Compaq in 2002. Compaq itself had bought Tandem
Computers in 1997 (which had been started by ex-HP employees), and Digital Equipment
Corporation in 1998. Following this strategy HP became a major player in desktops, laptops, and
servers for many different markets. After the merger with Compaq, the new ticker symbol
became "HPQ", a combination of the two previous symbols, "HWP" and "CPQ", to show the
significance of the alliance. In 2006 HP outsourced its enterprise support to countries with lower
cost workers: the Spanish support (for Spain) moved to Slovakia, the German support moved to
Bulgaria, English support moved to Costa Rica, and so on.
EDS purchase. On May 13, 2008, HP and Electronic Data Systems announced [19] that they had
signed a definitive agreement under which HP would purchase EDS. On June 30, HP announced
[20]
that the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 had
expired. "The transaction still requires EDS stockholder approval and regulatory clearance from
the European Commission and other non-U.S. jurisdictions and is subject to the satisfaction or
waiver of the other closing conditions specified in the merger agreement." The agreement was
finalized on August 26, 2008 and it was publicly announced that EDS would be re-branded
"EDS an HP company."
HP also expanded its presence in Israel first with the acqusistion in 2002 of Indigo Digital Press
and in November 2005 with the acquisition of Scitex Vision from Scitex Corporation Ltd..
[edit] Technology and products

A modern HP Pavilion Laptop

A modern HP digital camera; the HP Photosmart R817.

A camera that uses the SDIO interface

HP has successful lines of printers, scanners, digital cameras, calculators, PDAs, servers,
workstation computers, and computers for home and small business use computers; many of the
computers came from the 2002 merger with Compaq. HP today promotes itself as supplying not
just hardware and software, but also a full range of services to design, implement and support IT
infrastructure.
The three business segments: Enterprise Storage and Servers (ESS), HP Services (HPS), and HP
Software are structured beneath the broader Technology Solutions Group (TSG).
[edit] Imaging and Printing Group (IPG)
According to HP's 2005 U.S. SEC 10-K filing,[21] HP's Imaging and Printing Group is "the
leading imaging and printing systems provider in the world for printer hardware, printing
supplies and scanning devices, providing solutions across customer segments from individual
consumers to small and medium businesses to large enterprises." This division is currently
headed by Vyomesh Joshi.
Products and technology associated with the Imaging and Printing Group include:
• Inkjet and LaserJet printers, consumables and related products
• Officejet all-in-one multifunction printer/scanner/faxes
• Large Format Printers
• Indigo Digital Press
• HP Web Jetadmin printer management software
• HP Output Management suite of software, including HP Output Server
• LightScribe optical recording technology that laser-etches labels on disks
 • HP Photosmart digital cameras and photo printers
• HP SPaM Hosted within IPG, SPaM is an internal consulting group that supports all HP
businesses on mission-critical strategic and operation decisions.
• Snapfish by HP a photo sharing and photo products service
On December 23, 2008, HP releases iPrint Photo for iPhone a free downloadable software
application that allows to print 4" x 6" photos.[22]
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[edit] Personal Systems Group (PSG)
HP's Personal Systems Group claims to be "one of the leading vendors of personal computers
("PCs") in the world based on unit volume shipped and annual revenue."[21]
Personal Systems Group products/technology include:
• Business PCs and accessories
• Consumer PCs and accessories including the HP Pavilion, Compaq Presario and
VoodooPC series
• Workstations for Unix, Windows and Linux systems
• Handheld Computing including iPAQ Pocket PC handheld computing devices (from
Compaq)
• Digital "Connected" Entertainment including HP MediaSmart TVs, HP MediaSmart
Servers, HP MediaVaults, and DVD+RW drives. HP resold the Apple iPod until
November 2005.[21]
• Home Storage Servers
[edit] Technology Solutions Group (TSG)
Main article: HP Technology Solutions Group
TSG incorporates Technical services, EDS, HP Software & Solutions, Enterprise Storage and
Servers Group (ESS) and ProCurve Networking.
[edit] Enterprise Storage and Servers Group (ESS)
"Back end" products including storage and servers:
• HP ProLiant: entry line of x86 based servers (from Compaq)
○ ProLiant BL: x86-based blade servers (from Compaq)
• Integrity: server line using the Itanium processor architecture running several operating
systems including HP-UX and OpenVMS.
○ Integrity BL: Itanium-based blade servers
○ HP Integrity Superdome: line of high-end servers
• HP 9000: line of servers and workstations based on PA-RISC processors and running
HP-UX
○ HP 9000 Superdome: line of high-end servers
• AlphaServer: product line using the Alpha processor (from DEC) and running either:
○ Tru64 operating system (from DEC)
 ○ OpenVMS operating system (from DEC)
• NonStop: high-reliability Itanium-based architecture and operating system (from Tandem
Computers)
• StorageWorks: product line (the name came from DEC), which includes business class
and enterprise class data storage and protection products.[23]
○ StorageWorks HP XP high-end storage arrays (from Hitachi)
○ StorageWorks EVA mid-range storage arrays (from Compaq)
○ StorageWorks MSA entry-level storage arrays
○ StorageWorks ESL, EML, and MSL Tape libraries
○ StorageWorks Data Protector backup software
○ StorageWorks Storage Essentials Storage Resource Management software
○ StorageWorks Fibre Channel switches (from Brocade and Cisco)
[edit] HP Software & Solutions
Main article: HP Software & Solutions
HP Software & Solutions is the enterprise software division of information technology company
Hewlett-Packard (HP). For years, HP has produced and marketed its brand of enterprise
management software, HP OpenView. Beginning in Sept. 2005 through 2008, HP purchased a
total of 12 software companies as part of a publicized, deliberate strategy to augment its software
offerings for large business customers. [24]
HP Software & Solutions markets its software in four categories: business technology
optimization software, information management software, business intelligence solutions, and
communications and media software and solutions.
[edit] ProCurve Networking Business Unit
Main article: ProCurve
HPs networking business unit, ProCurve, are responsible for the family of network switches,
wireless access points, and routers.[25]. Originally under the control of the Office of Strategy and
Technology, since November 1 2008 they are a Business Unit of TSG.
[edit] Office of Strategy and Technology
HP's Office of Strategy and Technology [26], under Executive Vice President Shane Robison:
• Steers the company's $3.6 billion research and development investment — including HP
Labs.
• Fosters the development of the company's global technical community.
• Leads the company's strategy and corporate development efforts — including mergers,
acquisitions, divestitures, intellectual property licensing, venture capital partnerships, and
the ProCurve Networking Business Unit. [27]
• Performs worldwide corporate marketing activities — including external and internal
communications, brand marketing, customer intelligence, and corporate affairs.
[edit] HP Labs
Main article: HP Labs
HP Labs (or HP Laboratories) is the research arm of HP. Founded in 1966, HP Labs' function is
to deliver new technologies and to create business opportunities that go beyond HP's current
strategies. An example of recent HP Lab technology includes the Memory spot chip.
[edit] HP IdeaLab
HP IdeaLab www.hp.com/idealab provides a web forum on early-state innovations to encourage
open feedback from consumers and the development community. [28]
[edit] Environmental record
In 1998, the United States Environmental Protection Agency sought a $2.5 million penalty
against Hewlett Packard for violations against the Substance Control Act.[29] The PA EPA
alleged that the company had not filed a Pre-Manufacturing Notice (PMN) before it began
manufacturing and exporting chemicals. Without filing these PMNs, the EPA cannot conduct
risk analysis of new chemicals.
In 2002, Scorecard.org ranked Hewlett Packard facilities in the top 10-20 percentile for total
environmental releases and top 30-40 percentile for air releases of recognized developmental
toxicants.[30] It also showed that HPs factory in Puerto Rico released 246 lb (112 kg) of air
released TRI pollutants, and had a total of 483,136 lb (219,147 kg) of production related wastes.
[30]

In July 2007, the company announced that it had met its target, set in 2004, to recycle 1 billion
pounds of electronics,toner and ink cartridges.[31] It has set a new goal of recycling a further 2
billion pounds of hardware by the end of 2010. In 2006, the company recovered 187 million
pounds of electronics, 73 percent more than its closest competitor.[citation needed]
[edit] HP Certified Professionals
Hewlett-Packard's Certified Professional (HP-CP) program was developed to confirm the
technical skills, sales competencies and knowledge that is required to propose and deploy,
service and support technology and solutions sold by HP. HP-CP is intended for customers,
resellers, and HP employees.
[edit] Sponsorships

Mission: Space Sign

HP has many sponsorships. One well known sponsorship is of Walt Disney World's Epcot Park's
Mission: SPACE. Others can be found on Hewlett-Packard's website [2]. From 1995 to 1999
they were the shirt sponsor of English Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur. They also
sponsored the BMW Williams Formula 1 team. Hewlett-Packard also has the naming rights
arrangement for the HP Pavilion at San Jose, home of the San Jose Sharks NHL hockey team.
[edit] Product legacy
Agilent Technologies, not HP, retains the direct product legacy of the original company founded
in 1939. Agilent's current portfolio of electronic instruments are descended from HP's very
earliest products. HP entered the computer business only after its instrumentation competencies
were well-established.
After the acquisition of Compaq in 2002, HP has maintained the "Compaq Presario" brand on
low-end home desktops and laptops, the "HP Compaq" brand on business desktops and laptops,
and the "HP ProLiant" brand on Intel-architecture servers. (The "HP Pavilion" brand is used on
home entertainment laptops and all home desktops.)[32]
HP uses DEC's "StorageWorks" brand on storage systems; Tandem's "NonStop" servers are now
branded as "HP Integrity NonStop".[33]
[edit] Culture
The founders, known to friends and employees alike as Bill and Dave, developed a unique
management style that has come to be known as the HP Way. In Bill's words, the HP Way is "a
core ideology ... [which] includes a deep respect for the individual, a dedication to affordable
quality and reliability, a commitment to community responsibility, and a view that the company
exists to make technical contributions for the advancement and welfare of humanity."[34]
[edit] Controversy
[edit] HP pretexting scandal
Main article: HP spying scandal
On September 5, 2006 Newsweek published a story[35] revealing that the chairwoman of HP,
Patricia Dunn, had hired a team of independent electronic-security experts that later spied on HP
board members and several journalists, to determine the source of a leak of confidential details
regarding HP's long-term strategy in January, 2006. The independent, third party company used
a technique known as pretexting to obtain call records of HP board members and nine journalists,
including reporters for CNET, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. Dunn has
claimed she did not know the methods the investigators used to determine the source of the leak.
[36]
Board member George Keyworth was ultimately outed as the source.
On September 12, 2006 Keyworth resigned from the board and HP announced that Mark Hurd,
the current CEO and president, would replace Dunn as Chairman after the HP board meeting on
January 18, 2007.
On September 22, 2006 Hurd announced at a special press briefing that Dunn had resigned
effective immediately from both the Chairmanship role and as a director of the Board;
On September 28, 2006, Ann Baskins, HP's general counsel (head attorney) resigned[37] hours
before she was to appear as a witness at which she would later invoke the Fifth Amendment to
"not be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime."[38]
[edit] Investigation by the government
On October 4, 2006, California Attorney General Bill Lockyer filed criminal charges and arrest
warrants against Kevin Hunsaker, Dunn and three outside investigators.[39] On September 11,
2006, the United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce wrote to Patricia Dunn
stating that they have been conducting an investigation on Internet-based data brokers who
allegedly use "lies, fraud and deception" to acquire personal information, and allow anyone who
paid a "modest fee" to acquire "itemized incoming and outgoing call logs", and when had learned
about HP's use of pretexting through their September 6 SEC filing and through their own inquiry
of HP's Nominating and Governance Committee, stating they are "troubled" by the information,
"particularly that it involves HP—one of America's corporate icons."
The committee requested, under Rules X and XI of the United States House of Representatives,
information from HP by September 18, 2006:
At the September 28, 2006 hearing, Dunn and Hurd[40] both testified extensively about the
investigation. Dunn testified that until June or July 2006, she did not realize that "pretexting"
could involve identity misrepresentation. Dunn repeatedly insisted that she had believed that
personal phone records could be obtained through legal methods.
Other witnesses refused to answer questions due to the ongoing criminal investigations.[38]
[edit] Perceived impact on the company's operations
Despite the intense media coverage, investors continue to show faith in the company. As of
October 23, the price of the company's stock had increased from $36.50 to $39.87 per share.[41]
On October 8, 2006 Reuters ran a story describing pretexting used by Hewlett-Packard and other
companies.[42]
On October 12, 2006 hp announced the appointment of Jon Hoak as vice president and chief
ethics and compliance officer. Hoak served as senior vice president and general counsel for NCR
from 1993 until May 2006.[43]
On December 7, 2006 hp paid $14.5 Million to settle civil charges brought by the California
Attorney General.[44]
In December 2006, two members of Congress requested that HP provide more information
regarding CEO Mark Hurd's sale of $1.4 million of stock options on August 25, the same day he
was questioned by attorneys investigating the pretexting scandal.[45] Mark Hurd explained that
the August trade was part of his normal investment strategy to diversify assets and was made
during a regularly scheduled trading window for senior officers and directors.[citation needed]
Additionally, Hurd assured the Subcommittee that the August trade had nothing to do with his
interview by attorneys investigating the leak investigation and that he had initiated the trade
before any such request had been made to him.[citation needed]
[edit] Traceable e-mail
Fred Adler of HP revealed before a U.S. Congressional Inquiry that HP used an e-mail tracking
service to trace a leak in an e-mail sent to CNET reporter Dawn Kawamoto.[46] The e-mail
contained a Web bug. Adler stated that HP considers Web bugs to be a legitimate investigative
tool, and has used them a number of times.[47] The California attorney general's office has said
that this practice was not part of the Pretexting charges.[48]
[edit] Advertising
[edit] The Computer Is Personal Again
The Computer Is Personal Again was Hewlett-Packard's PSG campaign slogan that was
brought up in May 2006. Two months after its creation, Dell followed up with its own campaign
entitled "Purely You," which seemed to piggyback off the HP idea.
The campaign was designed to bring back the fact that the PC (Personal Computer) is a personal
product. The campaign utilized viral marketing (see below), sophisticated visuals, and its own
web site (www.hp.com/personal). Some of the ads featured well-known personalities - Pharrell,
Mark Burnett, Mark Cuban, Jay-Zand Shaun White. Rather than show a bunch of talking heads,
each advertisement showed a neck-down view in which the endorser, aided greatly by graphics,
visually showed how they used HP products. All these personalities weren't paid millions of
dollars but instead were brought a deal with HP to sponsor their or a selected charity group.
[edit] Management
• Chairman of the Board, CEO, and President: Mark Hurd (March 29, 2005–current,
appointed Chairman September 22, 2006)
[edit] History
• Co-founder: David Packard (President: 1947; Chairman: 1964–1969; Chairman 1971–
1993)
• Co-founder: William Hewlett (Vice President: 1947; Executive Vice President: 1957;
President: 1964; CEO: 1969; Chairman of the Executive Committee 1978; Vice
Chairman 1983–1987)
• CEO: John A. Young (1978–October 31, 1992)
• CEO: Lewis Platt (November 1, 1992–July 18, 1999; Chairman 1993–July 18, 1999)
• Chairman: Richard Hackborn (January, 2000–September 22, 2000; Lead Independent
Director September 22, 2006–)
• CEO: Carly Fiorina (July 19, 1999–February 9, 2005; Chairwoman September 22, 2000–
February 9, 2005)
• Interim CEO: Robert Wayman (February 9, 2005–March 28, 2005)
• Chairwoman: Patricia C. Dunn (February 9, 2005–September 22, 2006).
• CEO: Mark Hurd (CEO: April 1, 2005–; Chairman: September 22, 2006–)
[edit] User Groups
• HP User Group
[edit] See also
Companies portal

• List of Hewlett-Packard products

• List of computer system manufacturers
• Memristor
• HP Linux Imaging and Printing
[edit] References
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16.^ List of Large Companies that own a Two Letter Domain
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26.^ HP Executive Team Bios: Shane Robison
27.^ ProCurve Networking by HP - Features
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47.^ PC World - Business Center: Web Bugs Trained to Track Your E-Mail
48.^ News - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership

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The following is a partial list of products manufactured under the Hewlett-Packard brand.

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• 1 Printers
○ 1.1 LaserJet printers (color and monochrome)
○ 1.2 ColorJet printers
○ 1.3 PSC/Photosmart All-in-one printers
○ 1.4 Photosmart printers
 1.4.1 Portable models
○ 1.5 HP Photosmart Express Kiosk
○ 1.6 HP Photosmart Studio Kiosk
○ 1.7 OfficeJet All-in-one printers
○ 1.8 Designjet Printers
○ 1.9 Deskjet printers
• 2 Digital Cameras
○ 2.1 Original line
○ 2.2 HP E-series
○ 2.3 HP M-series
○ 2.4 HP R-series
• 3 Scanners
○ 3.1 Scanjet series
• 4 PDAs
• 5 Pocket Computer
○ 5.1 Lx series
○ 5.2 OmniGo series
○ 5.3 Jornada
○ 5.4 iPAQ
• 6 Desktop calculators and computers
○ 6.1 Computer Terminals
 ○ 6.2 Plotters
○ 6.3 Pocket calculators
• 7 Desktops
○ 7.1 HP Pavilion
○ 7.2 HP TouchSmart PC
○ 7.3 HP Kayak
○ 7.4 HP Vectra
○ 7.5 HP Brio
○ 7.6 HP e-PC (e-Vectra)
• 8 HP Blackbird 002
• 9 Notebooks
○ 9.1 HP Omnibook
○ 9.2 Compaq Evo
○ 9.3 HP Business Notebooks
○ 9.4 Pavilion notebooks
○ 9.5 Compaq Presario
○ 9.6 HP Compaq
○ 9.7 Other
• 10 Workstations
○ 10.1 PA-RISC based
○ 10.2 Itanium based
○ 10.3 Alpha based (from DEC, via Compaq)
○ 10.4 x86 based
○ 10.5 Blade Workstations
• 11 Servers
○ 11.1 x86 (Intel & AMD Opteron) based
 11.1.1 Entry Level Servers
 11.1.2 ProLiant DL Series
 11.1.3 ProLiant ML Series
 11.1.4 ProLiant BLp blades
 11.1.5 ProLIant BLc blades
○ 11.2 Itanium based
○ 11.3 Alpha based
○ 11.4 PA-RISC based
 • 12 Enterprise storage
• 13 "StorageWorks" Storage element managers
• 14 Storage area management
• 15 ProCurve
• 16 Telepresence and Video Conferencing
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