HP Inc

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 | 31

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 | 80

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

In the halcyon days before Brexit, takeover attempts, and COVID-19, HP made 1.3% pre-tax profit on sales at UK limb

PC giant blames restructure costs

On-Prem03 Aug 2020 | 6

Choose your own adventure: HP's new Omen 15 gaming laptop offers choice between AMD and Intel processors

Are you Team Red or Team Blue?

Personal Tech02 Jun 2020 | 11

HP's hoping it'll be second time lucky with launch of Reverb G2 nerd goggles

'Keeping all of the best elements from the G1'... and none of the bad, please

Science29 May 2020 | 8

HP Ink sales are in the red: Total revenue down 11 per cent as CEO says coronavirus knackered supply chain

Demand high, components MIA

Personal Tech28 May 2020 | 11

Lawsuit klaxon: HP, HPE accused of coordinated plan to oust older staff in favor of cheaper, compliant youngsters

IBM isn't the only IT giant said to be unfairly binning elders

On-Prem22 May 2020 | 57

Quanta Storage tells court: We’d love to hand over the $439m we owe HP Inc but, you know, coronavirus...

If push comes to shove, PC giant could get 0.2% on the dollar in recompense

Personal Tech11 May 2020 |

Florida man might just stick it to HP for injecting sneaky DRM update into his printers that rejected non-HP ink

World crosses fingers

Personal Tech28 Apr 2020 | 207

Feeling hot, hot, hot... in British Columbia? In December?

Bork!Bork!Bork! Overheating HP hardware disrupts festive ad flinging

Bootnotes15 Apr 2020 | 8

PC shipments went over a cliff in Q1, which may be only moderately terrifying

Dell only vendor to increase shipments as debate turns to impact of pent-up demand vs shifting spending priorities

On-Prem14 Apr 2020 | 12

Talk about ill-gotten gains: Coronavirus KOs Xerox's $30bn months-long hostile takeover bid of HP Inc

Turmoil in the financial markets fells ambitious acquisition plan

Personal Tech31 Mar 2020 | 17

Stockholders, assemble. HP's latest argument: Do you really trust Xerox to take us over during a pandemic recession?

Execs make new plea to shareholders in hostile takeover battle

Personal Tech26 Mar 2020 | 8

Xerox slurps something that isn't HP Inc: Brit managed print services houses Altodigital and ITEC Connect

Prices undisclosed but you can bet it was cheaper

On-Prem25 Mar 2020 | 2

Oh, we may have found the COVID-19 silver lining: Coronavirus pandemic halts Xerox hostile takeover of HP

And nothing to do with stock-market crash, nope, no way

Personal Tech13 Mar 2020 | 12

HP Inc to Xerox: If you complete a hostile takeover, and try firing our chief exec, you will pay...

... a bigger severance package to Lores, that is

On-Prem11 Mar 2020 | 19

Stop us if you've heard this one before: HP Inc rejects Xerox's $36.5bn buyout plan as takeover saga drags on

The buy price, the debts... won't someone think of the HP shareholders?

On-Prem05 Mar 2020 | 35

HP hostile takeover warms up: Xerox queues print job cash_and_shares.pdf, mails it to the board to mull over

PC-and-printers biz will 'carefully review and evaluate the offer' before, presumably, deciding: No

Personal Tech02 Mar 2020 | 16

HP Ink: No way, Xerox. We're not accepting your takeover. Well, we'd never say never. Maybe even maybe? Hello, you still there? Please?

Absolutely not entertaining an offer that could you just repeat one more time?

Personal Tech25 Feb 2020 | 20

This is your last chance, HP. There's no turning back. You take blue poison pill, the story ends. You take the red Xerox pill, you stay in Wonderland

Photocopier goliath hits back at PC giant's attempt to scupper takeover

Personal Tech21 Feb 2020 | 57

Xerox hopes wining and dining HP shareholders will convince them of takeover

Just edible gold rather than briefcases filled with the actual stuff

On-Prem17 Feb 2020 | 17

Xerox ups bid in hostile takeover of HP Ink to more than $36.5bn

Rifles down back of sofa, finds extra $3bn for shareholders

On-Prem10 Feb 2020 | 14

Xerox names the 11 directors it hopes will oust most of HP's board and put $33bn hostile takeover to shareholders

Updated The dirty dozen... well, almost

On-Prem23 Jan 2020 | 19

Xerox to nominate up to 11 directors to HP's board in hostile takeover push – report

If yours won't support a merger, we'll install some who will

On-Prem22 Jan 2020 | 16

The soap opera continues. HP again tells Xerox: Show us more money!

$33bn 'significantly undervalue' the stock, your move again copier giant

On-Prem09 Jan 2020 | 24

Xerox grabs $24bn from banking titans to fund hostile takeover of HP Ink

CEO and co-chair Visentin writes to HP board to say: Let's get this thing done

On-Prem06 Jan 2020 | 28