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 ...

The name on the chassis will be Hewlett-Packard, but many of the computers coming from HP in the future will likely bear Compaq Computer bloodlines--if the merger goes through. Michael Kanellos is ...

Tuesdays are when Compaq Computer thinks small. The PC maker is using its new "Business Tuesday" campaign to establish relationships with companies with less than 1,000 employees, collectively known ...

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 ...

In the PC market, profits are withering as the cost of many desktop systems have fallen below $1,000. Rivals Dell and Gateway, who sell directly to customers over the telephone and the Internet, are ...

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 ...

DENIALS OF WARRANTY service by computer manufacturers are standard fare on The Gripe Line, but we may have touched bottom during Compaq’s last months as an independent company. Let’s hope so. Readers ...

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 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 ...