RENEE MONTAGNE, host: On Mondays we focus on technology, and we begin with a tech company chairwoman in trouble.</s>RENEE MONTAGNE, host: Hewlett-Packard's board ended a phone conference yesterday without saying if it Will ask Patricia Dunn to resign. The board meets again today, as California prosecutors ask if the chairwoman broke the law.</s>STEVE INSKEEP, host: Patricia Dunn ordered outside investigations of her fellow board members. She wanted to see who leaked confidential company information to journalists and her investigators posed as other people in order to get phone records.
The board of Hewlett-Packard is scheduled to meet again Monday to discuss the fate of Chairwoman Patricia Dunn. Directors of the company that makes computers and printers are deciding whether to oust Dunn for ordering an investigation that may have used illegal means to spy on colleagues and journalists.