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 ...

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 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 ...

Compaq Computer plans to pack a virtual self-help technician, "Al," in every new Presario Internet PC, starting next month. The PC maker's new Technician-In-a-Box program is part of an ongoing trend ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...