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• Kelvin Hughes Selects Firepond's CPQ(TM) OnDemand to Automate the Sales Process

  - 2008-03-20

  Firepond, Inc. (OTCBB: FPND) announces that Kelvin Hughes, world leader in the design and manufacture of marine navigation systems, has chosen Firepond CPQTM OnDemand for streamlining its quoting, pricing and proposal approval processes. Kelvin Hughes will leverage Firepond's multi-tenant application with single sign on through salesforce.com's SFA application, for an...

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• Techniques of the Office Politics Masters

  BNET - 2007-07-20

  How five of the country's top CEOs maneuvered to reach the top and stay there. Steve Jobs CEO, Apple Political Style: The charismatic visionary Passion is Jobs’ greatest asset in motivating employees, negotiating deals, and cultivating a...

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• Q&A with...Compaq Big Band leader Al Saloky

  - 2007-07-20

  In 1975, Al Saloky was an engineer at Digital Equipment Corp., which was tucked into an old woolen mill in Maynard, Mass. The high-tech manufacturer was hitting its stride churning out refrigerator-sized computers, and employees needed extra-curricular diversions to release some of the pressure from go-go design schedules.

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• Compaq-HP Merger was Right After All According to Stanford Business School Research

  - 2007-07-16

  STANFORD, Calif. -- In 2001, when Hewlett-Packard's then-CEO Carly Fiorina announced that the technology giant proposed to merge with Compaq Computer Corp., she set off a firestorm of controversy. Michael Dell, CEO of rival Dell Computer, famously called it "the dumbest deal of the decade," and Walter Hewlett, the son...

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• Compaq-HP Merger Was Right After All, According to Stanford Business School Research.

  - 2007-07-16

  Byline: Stanford Graduate School of Business Byline: Stanford Graduate School of Business

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• Homeland Integrated Security Systems, Inc. Appoints Former Compaq Senior Manager as Executive Vice President of Marketing and Sales

  - 2006-08-30

  Homeland Integrated Security Systems, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: HISC) is pleased to announce that the Company has appointed Michael Roy as Executive Vice President of Marketing and Sales. Mr. Roy is a former Senior Marketing Director with Compaq/DEC and also has been a global business development executive with board (profit, non-profit) and...

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• Plant Equipment, Inc. Deploys Firepond Configure-Price-Quote OnDemand for AppExchange; Firepond CPQ OnDemand Enables PlantCML to Accurately Configure Price and Quote Products On-Demand, in Less Than Half the Time

  - 2006-06-21

  NEWTON, Mass. -- Firepond today announced that PlantCML's has deployed Firepond CPQTM OnDemand integrating it as the product configuration, price, quote and proposal component in PlantCML's Salesforce on-demand CRM solution.

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• Tellepsen.(Brief article)

  - 2006-06-05

  Staff Tellepsen Builders received Houston's Landmark Award for "Best Rehabilitation/Renovation" from the Houston Business Journal . Tellepsen Builders' renovation of Compaq Center into a 16,000-seat sanctuary for Lakewood Church mar Staff Tellepsen...

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• Dell and HP/Compaq Rated `Best' IT Equipment Brands Globally - First ACNielsen / VNU Global Tech Forum Survey Also Reveals:

  - 2006-05-15

  LONDON and NEW YORK -- ACNielsen:

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• Viewpoint Corporation Appoints Don Weatherson to the Audit Committee

  - 2006-05-12

  NEW YORK -- Viewpoint Corporation (NASDAQ: VWPT), a leading internet marketing technology company, today announced that Don Weatherson, its non-Executive Chairman, had been appointed to the audit committee on May 10, 2006. Mr. Weatherson is recently retired from the Hewlett-Packard Company and Compaq Computer Corporation. He joined Compaq Computer Corporation...

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• Compaq eyes the Middle, plans affordable desktops.

  - 2006-02-28

  Feb. 28--MUMBAI, India -- Compaq, a US-based computer maker, on Monday, announced its plans for promotions of its range of notebooks and desktops in India. Feb. 28--MUMBAI, India -- Compaq, a US-based computer maker, on Monday, announced its plans for promotions of its range...

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• Cloverleaf Moves Headquarters to New York; Appoints Senior Director of Marketing; Former HP/Compaq Senior Marketer Executing Aggressive Strategy, Further Escalating the Company's Sales, Marketing and Business Development Efforts

  - 2006-01-17

  WOODBURY, N.Y. -- Cloverleaf Communications, the first to provide single image management of heterogeneous storage networks, today announced it has moved its headquarters from Southborough, Mass. to Woodbury, New York. The move provides Cloverleaf with a geographically stronger presence to the financial and insurance markets, which are demonstrating significant increasing...

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• Symantec's Norton Internet Security Helps Protect HP Consumer Desktops, Notebooks Worldwide; Norton Internet Security 2005 AntiSpyware Edition to Safeguard HP Pavilion, Compaq Presario Systems Against Security Risks

  - 2005-09-22

  CUPERTINO, Calif. -- Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq:SYMC) today announced that its Norton Internet Security 2005 AntiSpyware Edition will help protect HP consumer PCs around the globe. Under terms of the multi-year agreement, Norton Internet Security 2005 AntiSpyware Edition will ship on HP Pavilion and Compaq Presario consumer desktop and notebook PCs...

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• AMI-Partners Study Reveals That India Non-PC-Owning Small Businesses Are on Track to Purchase over 4.8 Million PCs by the End of 2005; HCL, Lenovo and HP/Compaq Are Some of the PC Brands Expected to Make Inroads into the Non-PC SB Market

  - 2005-09-20

  KOLKATA, India -- India's small businesses SBs constitute the vast majority (over 98%) of the country's commercial universe in terms of number of enterprises. Yet they lag behind their larger brethren when it comes to the adoption of information technology-related products and services. This is borne out by the low...

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• Universal Communication System, Inc. Subsidiary Solar Style, Inc. Announces the Appointment of Ex Toshiba and Compaq Top Executive to the Position in the New Company of 'President / CEO'

  - 2005-06-24

  Universal Communication Systems, Inc. (OTC BB: UCSY) wholly owned subsidiary Solar Style, Inc. announced today the appointment of Robert Grossman of Toronto, Canada, as the company's new President/ CEO effective immediately. Mr. Grossman will operate and be based out of the new corporate offices in Toronto, Canada.

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• ATI MOBILITY'TM' RADEON'R' Graphics selected for new line of PCI Express HP Pavilion and Compaq Presario Notebook PCs

  - 2005-02-02

  MARKHAM, Ontario -- MOBILITYTM RADEONR X300 and MOBILITYTM RADEONR X600 to power HP's flagship consumer notebook PCs

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• ATI MOBILITY'TM' RADEON'R' Graphics selected for new line of PCI Express HP Pavilion and Compaq Presario Notebook PCs.

  - 2005-02-02

  MARKHAM, ONTARIO, Feb 2, 2005 CCNMatthews via COMTEX MARKHAM, ONTARIO, Feb 2, 2005 CCNMatthews via COMTEX

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• StreamServe Appoints Former Compaq and HP Executive as Advisor to Board of Directors.

  - 2004-09-29

  BURLINGTON, Massachusetts, September 29 /PRNewswire/ -- StreamServe, a global provider of enterprise business communications EBC solutions, announces the appointment of Peter Blackmore, former executive vice president of Hewlett-Packard's Cus BURLINGTON, Massachusetts, September 29 /PRNewswire/ -- ...

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• Hewlett-Packard wins for the 2nd time: when HP merged with Compaq in 2002, it tapped into the purchasing brainpower of both companies and implemented, refined or expanded a host of programs to cut supply chain costs. Its efforts have earned HP Purchasing

  - 2004-09-02

  When Hewlett-Packard and Compaq Computer Corp. announced that they would merge, Dick Conrad and Greg Shoemaker were given a big challenge. The two had to merge the purchasing and supply chain operations of two large multinational high-tech com When...

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• Polycom Announces Appointment of Steve Huey to CMO; Former Compaq/HP Veteran to Lead Go To Market Strategy

  - 2004-07-22

  PLEASANTON, Calif. -- Global Marketing Communications and Branding Expert to Drive Polycom Presence into Mainstream Markets

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