Meg Whitman
HP phone home
After failing in the tablet market, Hewlett-Packard is jumping into smartphones
Newsmakers: Sept. 22-29
Miley gets political, the Pope gets stung and Julian Assange gets an autobiography he doesn’t want
Why a billionaire couldn’t buy victory in California
Meg Whitman may have had cash, but at age 72, it was Democrat Jerry Brown’s time for a comeback
A small housekeeping problem
Meg Whitman’s campaign for California governor gets tripped up by allegations of hiring illegal labour
Will McCain pick a chick?
The Telegraph is reporting the Dems are quaking at the prospect of McCain naming a female VP running mate tomorrow. As a political move it would have the one-two punch of being both smarmy and canny. The Republicans have never had a woman on the presidential ballot, so McCain’s ticket would be given instant historic import. It would also cast him the definitive alpha male, something that might be a problem, say, if he were standing next to the younger, chiseled Mitt Romney.