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 ...

On Monday, the Houston-based company will effectively retire its Deskpro, Armada and Professional Workstation brands to create a new line called Evo. "Evo is for evolution, as computing evolves away ...

Margaret Warner discusses the proposed multi-billion dollar merger between Compaq and Hewlett-Packard with Computer World editor Mary Fran Johnson. Hewlett-Packard and Compaq Computer have been fierce ...

January 1982 Former Texas Instruments manager Rod Canion comes up with the idea of a portable computer that runs all the programs that operate on the IBM PC without any modification. Canion, Jim ...

Sometime this quarter, Dell Computer will likely surpass Compaq Computer as the world's largest computer company, according to a recent study. Round Rock, Texas-based Dell is expected to ship ...

Compaq Computer may soon offer PC buyers a tempting option: two for the price of one. Hoping to corral buyers who can't decide whether to buy a notebook or desktop PC, the Houston-based computer maker ...

In 1981, engineer Rod Canion left Texas Instruments and co-founded Compaq, which created the first IBM-compatible personal computer. This opened the door to an entire industry of PCs that could run ...

"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 Co. announced Tuesday several products developed by the former Compaq Computer Corp., whose acquisition by HP was finalized May 7. New versions of the AlphaServer family were announced ...

Ever since sales of personal computers began to slump last year, industry experts have been talking about consolidation as a way for struggling computing giants to weather the hard times. Now that ...