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HP is Tech's New Top Dog? 192

bart_scriv writes "BusinessWeek argues that HP is the new Big Blue: 'Now, tech is about to get a new biggest behemoth. It's HP. The Palo Alto, Calif., PC and printer giant had higher sales than IBM last quarter, and analysts project it will finish 2006 with greater annual sales than Big Blue for the first time ever: $91 billion for HP vs. $90.5 billion for IBM. The reason HP pulled ahead is simple: IBM last year sold off its $11 billion PC business to Lenovo Group Ltd. But, because the companies have chosen fundamentally different paths, with HP aggressively going after consumers while IBM focuses on corporations, HP is expected to grow faster than IBM in coming years. Since both use blue in their logos, you might say there's a new Big Blue in the house.'"
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Journal Journal: Monkey Chow Guy Makes it to Day Six 1

The self-titled "Last Angry Young Man" has made it six days on his diet consisting entirely of monkey chow. In his quest to avoid cooking, dishes, and waiting in checkout lines, the author of "The Monkey Chow Diaries" has decided to go a week eating nothing but, "pelletized, nutritionally complete food like puppies and monkeys do." His odyssey has even prompted the monkey chow manufactures, ZuPreem, to publi
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Journal Journal: Bookshelf DRM

Every time I get frustrated with another /. article on DRM, another piece of software that does not work the way it use to before big business bought innovation, or another piece of hardware that stops working because the outsourced capacitors are melting again, I just swivel in my desk chair and take a look at my bookshelf. This is usually followed by a sigh of relief because regardless of what they

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