Compaq Computer edges ahead of rivals in the 2001 high-performance computing market, garnering 23 percent of a $5.1 billion market. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

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 ...

Hewlett-Packard Co., the fabled Silicon Valley computer maker, announced last night that it will purchase rival Compaq Computer Corp. for $25 billion in stock, as the two companies struggle to survive ...

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 ...

Dataquest on Wednesday said Palm's slice of the global market for PDAs fell, to 38.6 percent in 2001 from 50.4 percent in 2000. In all, Palm shipped 5.1 million units, more than three times that of ...

The U.S. Postal Service has signed contracts with two giant computer manufacturers to provide postal workers with computers and Internet service, but not at the big discounts originally sought. Compaq ...

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 ...

Compaq Computer may be digging in for a long price war with cross-state rival Dell Computer, but there's at least one front where the company isn't giving up ground on profits. After less than a year ...