HP did quite the number on Palm’s critically lauded smartphone platform; after buying Palm, killing the Pre and WebOS as a mobile device platform, and finally use WebOS in (of all things) printers, it seems that HP finally found a buyer for the hamstringed operating system – LG. In a report from TheNextWeb, LG purchased …
HP….what happened to you? You used to be so full of life. You made adequate desktop computers, and you were….umm. Ok, well I can’t actually think of anything noteworthy you did that I didn’t hate (and I hate all printers by default). But! You bought WebOS with such promise! Finally, a company with the means …
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Happy Halloween Noisers! In the spirit of the season, Best Buy decided to bring back the dead. In a recent press release, Best Buy announced that it will be bringing back the now dead HP TouchPad at very reasonable $150 for a 32GB model. Not bad at all, but all that glitters ain’t gold my …
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For him it was a dark passage which led to nowhere, then to nowhere, then again to nowhere, once again to nowhere, always and forever to nowhere, heavy on the elbows in the earth to nowhere, dark, never any end to nowhere, hung on all time always to unknowing nowhere, this time and again for …
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Last night VentureBeat broke a story about a trusted anonymous source confiding to the publication that Amazon was seriously considering snatching up Palm from Hewlett-Packard. At first thought I got excited to hear this news, just like the rest of the interwebs did. Palm is going to be saved! It will finally have a home …
Well, you can’t say no one saw this coming, but HP has just confirmed that they will “discontinue operations” of WebOS devices, including the Pre line of phones and the TouchPad. This comes on the heels of reports that Best Buy has sold an embarrassingly low number of TouchPads. Not to mention a long-delayed US …
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Alright, at this point you know the drill. Do I need to break it down for you? This is the roundup. We take the herp and round it up like derp. Let’s do this. The Nook color leads the E Reader Market for the first time ever. Holy Hannah! This is huge. The E Reader …
HP announced today, HP webOS Pivot, a way of providing users an “entertaining and informative editorial resource for discovering webOS 3.0 applications” for the HP TouchPad. It’s expected to launch on July 1st. Pivot is designed to complement the HP webOS App Catalog and will help its users with app discovery by showcasing a broad …
Well, the Endeavor landed safely last night, and the Atlantis is sitting on deck. I am kinda sad to see the end of this era, but I am glad to see that we’re retiring some well-used equipment before it becomes a little less safe. Tonight we’ve got some stuff. Stuff like WebOs, Windy Red China, …
HP sets sights on becoming a leader in cloud-based services, building their own environment and app store, integrated with WebOS. Will it succeed?
According to Digitimes, HP’s WebOS 3.0 based TouchPad slate will beginning selling in April, with shipments to start delivery by th end of March. This is according to HPs upstream component partners. From Digitimes: “The sources pointed out that HP internally is aiming to ship 45-48 million notebooks and tablet PCs combined in 2011. After …
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