Rising prices help lift Chevron's earnings Chevron, the second-largest U.S. energy company, plans to spend $36.7 billion this year to explore for crude, build natural gas export terminals and upgrade oil refineries as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer John Watson seeks to reverse the longest slide in quarterly output since 2007-08. Schmidt said that North Korea's existing mobile-phone network, operated in a joint venture with Orascom Telecom Media & Technology Holding, could be retooled to offer Internet access. TECHNOLOGYGM calls HP petition 'fishing'General Motors Chief Information Officer Randy Mott on Thursday called Hewlett-Packard's efforts to question two technology workers hired by the automaker "retaliatory" and a "fishing expedition." The technology company's petition filed in state court in Travis County, Texas, last month to take depositions from the workers comes as Detroit's GM is hiring about 7,500 information technology workers over five years as part of a broader shift to move such work in-house instead of using outside contractors, such as Palo Alto's HP.