Good news for some: HP is now trying to rectify a situation in which the company was forcing a few hundred of its employees to take new jobs with giant pay cuts, or be let go with no layoff severance. Specifically, HP is renegotiating the […]

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The Department of General Services has recently adopted the New Mexico WSCA contract for Managed Print Services.  MPS is a relatively new procurement strategy at least for government which changes the traditional way an organization procures printers and related items. This state contract allows for […]

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The California Technology Agency’s  IT Project Tracking web site has for several consecutive months posted ominous project status reports, replete with bright red warning signs indicating serious implementation problems on the DMV’s IT Modernization Project. Today the DMV announced that it was apparently halting its […]

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Interesting  article by Chris O’Brien in LATimes about the former gubernatorial candidate: The former gubernatorial candidate is struggling to revive the troubled tech giant, a process that could take years… It sometimes seems as if just about everything that could go wrong at HP has gone […]

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As Techwire.Net reported last week: A task force created by a budget-related agreement with SEIU Local 1000 to review IT vendor and other private-sector contracts with state agencies has met and started the process to determine which potentially should be cancelled or renegotiated… It’s a […]

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According to a story at PhysOrg.com Columbia University researchers have demonstrated how hackers can use printers not only to infect computer systems and steal information but to set printers on fire. HP’s reaction: Today there has been sensational and inaccurate reporting regarding a potential security […]

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State of California Department of General Services this week announced their long anticipated award of the new statewide printer/copier contract. The new procurement involved 19 separate categories for printers, copiers and so-called multi-function devices. There were 18 awards made and Western Blue/NWN bidding Samsung devices […]

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Heard a clever line being passed around concerning HP’s decision to abandon the HP TouchPad Tablets, and the resulting fire sale where 16GB tablet could be had for under $100. All supplies were quickly snapped up, engendering this little gem: HP now knows what it’s […]

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Interesting to see what impact this may have on State of California’s Strategic Sourcing printing procurement currently in its final stages. And it would be ironic to see HP finally closing door on the Compaq buy out a decade ago. The Samsung gambit reported last […]

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Just a few hours ago, HP’s CFO and Interim CEO Cathie Lesjak announced that CEO Mark Hurd had been forced to resign due to inappropriate conduct. According to Lesjak, an internal investigation determined that “Mark had failed to disclose a close personal relationship he had […]

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