HP is going to have to sit by and suffer more boardroom revelations - or at least rehashings - in silence. Tom Perkins, the ex-board member who ratted out HP to the feds and exposed its spying escapades to very public scrutiny, is going to write a memoir called "Valley Boy: The Education of Tom Perkins" that opens with his slamming out of the boardroom in protest over the company's leak chase in May.

The fifth husband of Danielle Steele, the VC great's last literary outing was "Sex and the Single Zillionaire." Seems we can expect the new book, which will cover his trial for manslaughter in some French "backwater," to appear next September under the Gotham label, a Penguin division.

HP Buys Bitfone
HP is buying six-year-old Bitfone, a privately held ISV specialized in mobile device management for wireless devices. It does over-the-air repairs and upgrades. Terms were not disclosed. The company, which will be folded into HP's Handheld Business Unit inside its PC operation after the acquisition closes in February, has roughly 134 employees. Bitfone has had investments from 3i, Flextronics, Motorola and Prism Ventures.