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Woot offering 32GB HP TouchPad for $200

Ben Kersey, May 18th 2012 Discuss [0]

Missed out on the original HP TouchPad firesale? The ill-fated tablet gained a second lease on life once hackers started going to work on it and produced Ice Cream Sandwich ROMs. Fear not, you’ve got another chance to snag one: Woot is offering a refurbished 32GB HP Touchpad for $200. It’s one day only, and the deal is sure to catch fire, so you’ll have to move quickly. Read The Full Story

User modified CM9 TouchPad build adds Cornerstone multitasking support

Ben Kersey, Mar 16th 2012 Discuss [0]

The HP TouchPad continues to see strong Ice Cream Sandwich support from the talented hackers over at xda-developers, and a user modified build of the popular CyanogenMod adds a unique twist that even regular Android tablet users should be jealous of: true multitasking. Read The Full Story

HP releasing more webOS 3.0.5 code as a “Community Edition”

Ben Kersey, Mar 15th 2012 Discuss [0]

As much as we rooted for it, webOS was unfortunately the little train that couldn’t. While HP have nixed plans to make any more hardware running the ill-fated operating system, they began open sourcing webOS earlier this year. Today they announced plans to release additional parts of webOS 3.0.5, which they’re calling a “Community Edition”. Read The Full Story

HP lays off 275 WebOS employees

Michael Crider, Feb 28th 2012 Discuss [0]

Meg Whitman may have big plans for WebOS, the little mobile operating system that couldn't, but it looks like whatever she's planning doesn't require a large portion of the current WebOS development team. The company has laid off 275 employees in its mobile section. Most of the affected employees are engineers, which makes a lot of sense, since HP has no current plans to offer any more WebOS hardware. The laid off workers will join former Palm executive Jon Rubinstein, who voluntarily left HP last month. Some of the employees may be redeployed within HP, but not all. Read The Full Story

HP’s Whitman confirms Windows 8 tablet this year

Rue Liu, Feb 24th 2012 Discuss [0]

HP may have ditched its WebOS platform along with its corresponding hardware in an abrupt and ill-planned maneuver last year that saw its CEO Leo Apotheker ousted and replaced by Meg Whitman, but it's ready now to give tablets another shot. Although recent rumors suggested that the WebOS HP TouchPad could be revived in 2013, the current focus is on Windows 8. Whitman confirmed during a conference today that HP does indeed plan to release a Windows 8 tablet before the end of this year. Read The Full Story

HP CEO: We’re not done with WebOS yet

Michael Crider, Feb 15th 2012 Discuss [0]

At HP’s Global Partner Conference in Las Vegas, hardly a word was spoken on their WebOS efforts in 2011. And it’s not hard to see why: the few phones and single TouchPad tablet that sprang from the acquisition of Palm bombed so badly that the only wat to recoup losses was a massive fire sale. But surprisingly, HP’s new CEO Meg Whitman didn’t seem phased: at her keynote this morning, she reiterated HP’s commitment to the WebOS platform.

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HP TouchPad Ice Cream Sandwich CM9 port gets video tease

Chris Davies, Jan 13th 2012 Discuss [6]

HP TouchPad owner but webOS 3.0.5 not doing it for you? A delicious, dripping Ice Cream Sandwich may be on its way to you sooner rather than later, with news - and a video demo after the cut - that the CyanogenMod team has managed to get custom Android 4.0-based ROM CM9 running on the short-lived slate. Read The Full Story

HP TouchPad gets updated to webOS 3.0.5

Rue Liu, Jan 12th 2012 Discuss [34]

The HP TouchPad is getting a few improvements today with an update to webOS 3.0.5. It's not a major update, but it's nice to see that HP is still supporting the discontinued tablet and the webOS ecosystem, which had been teetering on the brink of extinction. Luckily for webOS fans, HP declared open-sourcing the platform last month. Read The Full Story

Sluggish code and HP power plays blamed for webOS’ failure

Chris Davies, Jan 2nd 2012 Discuss [4]

Angry ex-webOS team members have blamed poor code decisions by software-naive execs for the platform's demise, as well as power struggles amid the OS' adoption by HP. Jon Rubinstein - at the time CEO of Palm - opted for WebKit as the underlying engine on which webOS apps would run, something Paul Mercer, former senior director of software at Palm, tells the NYTimes was a huge mistake. "We just weren’t able to execute such an ambitious and breakthrough design" the ex-software chief argued, suggesting that WebKit simply wasn't up to running applications at the same speed as users experienced on, say, the iPhone. Read The Full Story

HP wanted $1.2 billion for WebOS and Palm assets

Rue Liu, Dec 28th 2011 Discuss [10]

HP has already made the decision to open source its WebOS platform, but according to a VentureBeat insider source, the company had initially wanted to sell WebOS along with other Palm assets for $1.2 billion. This is the same amount that HP paid when it acquired Palm back in 2010, meaning it was trying to offload a failing purchase without taking a loss. Read The Full Story

HP TouchPad Go reviewed in full despite dead production status

Chris Burns, Dec 28th 2011 Discuss [2]

It's an odd situation we're in here with HP's webOS mobile operating system now being open sourced and its TouchPad tablet having had such a summer that we'll never forget - and it's all come to a new strange point as the folks at webOSNation have gotten their hands on a tester unit of the smaller version of the tablet for a full review: HP TouchPad Go for the win! What's found, in short, is that this is essentially the same tablet as its larger relative, it's just presented here in a smaller package and at much cuter ratios. They're running webOS 3.0.5, Beats Audio is fully incorporated, and this device's dual-core 1.5GHz processor is in full swing. Read The Full Story

HP brought just 8,000 TouchPads to its fire sale

Chris Davies, Dec 12th 2011 Discuss [15]

HP's "sell out" TouchPad fire sale saw less than 8,000 of the webOS tablets change hands, official figures have confirmed, arguably making the slate sale more hype than substance. According to the single 16GB eBay listing and two 32GB listings (here and here), HP sold 2,316 of the $99 16GB TouchPad refurbs, and a further 5,534 of the $149 32GB models, for a total of 7,850 units. Read The Full Story