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A dip in Alder Lake with an HP Elitebook is spoiled by avoidable mistakes

Desktop Tourism It does most things well, some things right, and a few things bafflingly badly

Personal Tech08 Dec 2022 | 34

HP Inc to lay off up to 6,000 staff, cut costs by $1.4 billion

‘Portfolio optimization’ plan aims to cull some PCs, sell more pricey subscriptions

Personal Tech23 Nov 2022 | 41

Warren Buffett buys billions of dollars worth of TSMC stock

There's gold in them there chip mountains? World's sixth richest man seems to think so

Systems15 Nov 2022 | 6

Tablet, Chromebook shipments come crashing down

Device sales hit the floor as vendors look to Windows PCs

Personal Tech02 Nov 2022 | 11

Don't believe the hype: HP CEO says 3D printing hasn't met early hopes

Canalys Channels Forum Now, who talked up that market to begin with?

Personal Tech24 Oct 2022 | 25

Bias toward office staff will cost you: Your WFH crew could walk, say execs

Canalys Channels Forum Productivity KPIs need a 21st century makeover, say tech bosses

Personal Tech21 Oct 2022 | 57

PC shipments fall at fastest rate ever as businesses slam wallets shut

More analysts emerge to talk up hefty double digit shrink in unit volumes

Personal Tech11 Oct 2022 | 25

HP pays $1.3m to settle dispute over printer security chip

Euroconsumers hail success, payments capped and only folks in 4 countries eligible so far

Personal Tech13 Sep 2022 | 25

One month after Black Hat disclosure, HP's enterprise kit still unpatched

What could go wrong with leaving firmware open after world's biggest hacker convention talk?

Security13 Sep 2022 | 12

Windows 10 business refresh will revive PC shipments

Or so says a hopeful IDC after releasing latest forecast of doom

Personal Tech02 Sep 2022 | 22

HP's consumer PC biz shrinks by a fifth as inflation bites

The solution? Inventing another 'transformation programme' to transform previous transformation

Personal Tech31 Aug 2022 | 8

Ex-HP finance manager jailed after going on $5m spending spree using company plastic

Tesla sedan, 46 Chanel bags, 16 Rolexes, and more equals three years behind bars

Cyber-crime19 Aug 2022 | 40

Teradici re-emerges as 'HP Anyware' to replace ZCentral Remote Boost

Expect it to be bundled into managed desktop services from HP Inc.

Virtualization26 Jul 2022 | 2

Microsoft closes off two avenues of attack: Office macros, RDP brute-forcing

Blockade against VBA scripts in downloaded files is back on by default

CSO22 Jul 2022 | 15

Global PC market falls at fastest rate in 9 years

Nothing shiny about US Chromebook sales anymore, plus war in Ukraine and inflation hits EMEA shipments

Personal Tech12 Jul 2022 | 7

PC shipments sink amid steady waves of supply chain, war disruptions

320 million units forecast, still well above pre-pandemic, but boom is over for now

Personal Tech09 Jun 2022 | 5

HP pilots paper delivery service for Instant Ink subscribers

'Having to go buy paper is very painful' for customers, says CEO. Let's just say the profit margins aren't

Personal Tech09 Jun 2022 | 58

HP turns back on $1b in annual sales by quitting Russia and Belarus

Revenue hit for HP far larger than many tech providers post-pullout but PC, print giant stays course

Systems01 Jun 2022 | 12

It's 2022 and there are still malware-laden PDFs in emails exploiting bugs from 2017

Crafty file names, encrypted malicious code, Office flaws – ah, it's like the Before Times

Research24 May 2022 | 23

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway buys 11.4% stake in HP

Even notoriously tech averse stock market gambler can't resist piece of pandemic-boosted PC extravaganza

Systems07 Apr 2022 | 14

HP bets big on future of hybrid work with $3.3bn Poly buy

Plantronics and Polycom have a new parent company

On-Prem28 Mar 2022 | 12

APAC region's PC market growth flattens out

COVID saw sales surge, but there's less reason to buy in the new normal

Personal Tech25 Mar 2022 |

HP finance manager went on $5m personal spending spree with company card

Tesla, Porche, jewelry, bags, purses... not quite enough for ink, though

Security24 Mar 2022 | 47

Prince of Packaging HP Inc snaps up zero-plastic bottle maker

Patented plastic-free tech from Choose Packaging

Bootnotes02 Feb 2022 | 16

Chromebook sales in recession: Market saturation blamed as shipments collapse more than 63% in Q4

PC makers ditch Google OS portables for higher-margin Windows machines as component shortages linger

Personal Tech31 Jan 2022 | 22

Instant Ump: HP Inc's subscription ink services hiking prices from next month

Updated Customers in mid-tier band facing up to 50% higher fees... and they're delighted

Personal Tech27 Jan 2022 | 50

Canon: Chip supplies are so bad that our ink cartridges will look as though they're fakes

Updated The solution? Click the annoying error messages away and keep printing

Bootnotes10 Jan 2022 | 122

Ghost of Christmas past haunts Oracle despite impressive revenue growth

Payment over Mark Hurd dispute hits figures as Ellison bigs up cloud ERP

Databases10 Dec 2021 | 3

Meg Whitman – former HP and eBay CEO – nominated as US ambassador to Kenya

Donated $110K to Democrats in recent years

Off-Prem09 Dec 2021 | 72

Visiting a booby-trapped webpage could give attackers code execution privileges on HP network printers

Patches available for 150 affected products

Security30 Nov 2021 | 27

Dell: We and our customers understand the supply constraints now. The 'wildcard is logistics'

Over at rival HP, the story is more about building too many Chromebooks and watching demand for them ebb away

Personal Tech24 Nov 2021 | 7

HP's solution to running GPU-accelerated Linux apps on high-end Z workstations: Rely on Microsoft's WSL2

Because Windows is what Linux users really want, right?

Personal Tech12 Nov 2021 | 32

'Totally driven by supply': Dell, HP talk of backlogs and shortages as big PC-makers turn in their numbers

Dell's results were upbeat, HP's flat, but investors still worried over supply chain

Personal Tech27 Aug 2021 | 5

HPE UK sales crash after infrastructure projects delayed, but PC-flinging HP Inc watches Brit biz rise

The pandemic and a tale of two HPs

On-Prem09 Aug 2021 | 8

Paperless office? 2.8 trillion pages printed in 2020, down by 14% or 450 billion sheets

Big brands might take solace that in 2025, 4.4 million pages will still be printed every minute

Personal Tech05 Aug 2021 | 59

Chromebooks fighting for mind share at PC makers with higher-margin Windows 11 machines in the lead, says IDC

Colour us surprised

Personal Tech02 Aug 2021 | 11

HP Inc slurps Teradici to get better at delivering remote PCs

Apparently quite a few people haven't been in the office as much lately

Virtualization30 Jul 2021 | 10

The Register just found 300-odd Itanium CPUs on eBay

We mention this because Intel just stopped shipping them forever, ending a strange story

Systems30 Jul 2021 | 63

For a true display of wealth, dab printer ink behind your ears instead of Chanel No. 5

Litre of the office essential costs as much as £2,410 – up from £1,700 in 2003, finds Which?

Personal Tech26 Jul 2021 | 97

PCs continue to sell like hot cakes and industry can barely keep up with demand – analyst

Retailers prep for what could be the biggest sales year on record

Personal Tech26 Apr 2021 | 51

Age discrimination class-action against HP and HPE gets green light to proceed

Old people were let go while the CEO was talking about hiring a bunch of young people, says complaint

Legal16 Apr 2021 | 30

Proof that Surface devices are not a niche product obsessed over by Microsoft fans: A patent lawsuit from Caltech

Well, you wanted to be just like Apple, right?

Networks23 Mar 2021 | 22

HP loses attempt to deny colossal commission to star sales staffer

Contract was clear and trying to backdate changes was naughty, rules Australian court

On-Prem25 Feb 2021 | 41

'It's dead, Jim': Torvalds marks Intel Itanium processors as orphaned in Linux kernel

Itanic sinks further beneath the waves

Software01 Feb 2021 | 79

HP bows to pressure, reinstates free monthly ink plan... for existing customers

Is this the spirit of Xmas we've heard of? Well, new customers will have to pay to print 15 pages per month

Personal Tech17 Dec 2020 | 55

What's in HP's sack? Pre-built Ubuntu machines for the little data scientists in your life

Certain ZBook Studio G7 and Book Create G7 models ready to get number crunching out of the box

Personal Tech08 Dec 2020 | 4

HP CEO talks up HP-ink-only print hardware and higher upfront costs for machines that use other cartridges

'These actions will help us to optimize the business by reducing the number of unprofitable customers'

Personal Tech26 Nov 2020 | 110

Tablets and Chromebooks are hot, towers and desktops are not: El Reg combs through Q3 PC numbers

Flippin' Dell! All major vendors lifted by pandemic purchasing frenzy... except one

Personal Tech17 Nov 2020 | 36

HP: That print-free-for-life deal we promised you? Well, now it's pay-per-month to continue using your printer ink

EFF on the attack as IT giant tries to claim free supplies during 'device lifetime' just an introductory offer

Personal Tech12 Nov 2020 | 182

If you suddenly can't print to your HP Printer from your Mac, you're not alone: Code security cert snafu blamed

Updated Driver software snubbed by macOS 10.15, 10.14, Amazon Music, too

OSes23 Oct 2020 | 68

Oh! What a lovely lockdown: Lenovo enjoys soaraway sales for Q3 2020 as PC shipments jump – Dell, not so much

HP is top dog stateside

On-Prem13 Oct 2020 | 1

Something to consider in case Dell freezes over: HP unfolds 2-in-1 laptop with Intel Tiger Lake brains, bigger screen

Refresh dukes it out with gear from rival

Personal Tech03 Oct 2020 | 20

FYI: If you're running HP Device Manager, anyone on your network can get admin on your server via backdoor

Hidden database account discovered, patches finally available as well as mitigations

Security30 Sep 2020 | 16

Little Timmy might not get that notebook this Christmas: HP warns of CPU, panel shortages in run-up to holiday quarter

Is this some Apple marketing? Oh no, Intel still hasn't sorted its s*** out

Personal Tech28 Aug 2020 | 9

Intel, HP, Tesla, etc protest to US monopoly watchdog: Are you just gonna let Qualcomm patent-tax us to death?

You had teeth once, FTC – use them

Networks25 Aug 2020 | 10

Former HP CEO and Republican Meg Whitman – who split HP with mixed success – says Donald Trump can't run a business

Vows to vote for Democrat Joe Biden instead - as will ex-HP chief Carly Fiorina

On-Prem18 Aug 2020 | 95