Compaq Computer plans to pack a virtual self-help technician, "Al," in every new Presario Internet PC, starting next month. The PC maker's new Technician-In-a-Box program is part of an ongoing trend ...

Oracle plans to license technology from Compaq Computer that will help the software company improve key features in its upcoming next-generation database. Oracle will tap Compaq's "clustering" ...

Compaq Computer's future has less to do with the boring gray box it was built upon and more with the powerful machines in a customer's back room or small devices in his jacket pocket, executives said ...

Compaq Computer Corp. introduced a new line of portable computers today that feature interchangeable wireless modules, allowing users to quickly and easily switch from a corporate or public access ...

"We give you choices" is Compaq Computer's motto, but in the past two weeks people have been more interested in answers. Why was CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer, who transformed the company into the largest PC ...

Hewlett-Packard is buying Compaq Computer for $25 billion, a pairing that brings together two of the largest makers of personal computers. The move comes at a time of deep retrenchment in the computer ...

Compaq Computer is getting aggressive in the giveaway game. On Tuesday, the PC maker launched a new promotion: Buy an Evo notebook, an Evo desktop or an Armada notebook and get a Compaq iPaq 3650 ...

PALO ALTO, CA and HOUSTON, TX – Hewlett-Packard Company and Compaq Computer Corporation announced a merger agreement to create an $87 billion global technology leader. The new HP will offer the ...

Walk into any computer or electronics store and there are ghosts in the aisles. All were once important and formidable names in the retail PC business. Now they're gone, withdrawn from a cutthroat ...

Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HWP) and Compaq Computer Corporation (NYSE: CPQ) announced today a definitive merger agreement to create an $87 billion global technology leader. The new HP will offer ...

File this one away in the Holy Cow Dept: Hewlett-Packard is buying Compaq for US $25 billion in stock. This puts HP in the #2 spot, and leaves me wondering just what's going on. Personally, I've never ...