Miss out on the HP TouchPad fire sale from a few weeks back? Well, we have bittersweet news. Sweet: HP is planning to hold another TouchPad fire sale beginning September 28th at 9:00 AM PST. Bitter: The fire sale is only for U.S. HP employees…at least for now. The news was dispersed to HP employees via internal email. Similar to the first fire sale, pricing will be $99/$149 for the 16 GB and 32 GB TouchPads. Shipping will occur within 10 days of the initial...
The race to get the TouchPad up and running with the latest and greatest version of Android and fully functional to boot got another couple of checkboxes marked off this weekend. The talented Cyanogenmod developers whipped up a video showcasing the TouchPad’s newly added features compliments of Cyanogenmod 7: unctional WiFi, access to the Android Market, audio (albeit a bit fast) and an operational accelerometer. As of writing we’re also seeing news that the...
As one of the (apparently) few people who had a thing for webOS’ sleek lines and heaps of potential, it saddened me when HP made the surprise announcement that they were discontinuing all webOS hardware. And then but a few days later comments from HP indicated they could once again re-open the webOS hardware shop later on down the road. Needless to say, HP’s stance is confusing as much as it is disappointing. But there is hope for webOS aficionados. Rumors...
The last 1-2 months have certainly been jam packed with tech upsets and announcements. In our eyes, however, the most surprising announcement came from HP when they announced last month their intention of stopping all webOS hardware development and manufacturing and voicing interest in spinning off their PC business (Personal Systems Group). Following up on the original news comes a new report by Cnet who is claiming that as far back as late 2010 HP was involved in...
Apparently HP execs weren’t done with they chaos they started a couple weeks back. Under the latest roadmap, HP will keep webOS software (the only thing that matters) in the Office of Strategy and Technology while hardware (everything that’s been discontinued) will get shuffled over to HP’s Personal Systems Group (PSG). This will allow HP to keep all of webOS’ patents and ideas in-house should PSG get spun off/sold to another company. The...
