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HP TouchPad fire-sale sells out in minutes, cripples eBay

Chris Davies, Dec 12th 2011 Discuss [93]

HP's restarted TouchPad fire sale saw eBay brought to its knees on Sunday, as desperate bargain-hunters swamped the auction site and payments provider PayPal in the hope of scooping a $99 tablet. The deal - announced last week - kicked off at 7pm EST with the 16GB TouchPad at $99 and the 32GB model at $149. Unsurprisingly, the cheaper model was gone within minutes. Read The Full Story

HP: webOS tablets could return in 2013

Chris Davies, Dec 11th 2011 Discuss [30]

HP could return to webOS to make new tablets in 2013, using the freshly open-sourced platform for larger mobile devices though smartphones are still off the menu. Having announced that webOS will be an open-source platform moving forward, and then confirmed that there are no immediate plans for new webOS devices, HP CEO Meg Whitman conceded in an interview with TechCrunch that tablets could still be on the cards, albeit after the company's Windows 8 push. Read The Full Story

HP webOS hardware still a no-go

Chris Burns, Dec 9th 2011 Discuss [3]

While the good news that webOS as a mobile operating system would now be Open Source did come down the chute with much rejoicing this early afternoon, HP's stance on no future with HP hardware for the OS remains true. As it was announced earlier this summer right before The Great TouchPad Exodus of 2011, HP will no longer be producing hardware with webOS on it natively. This of course doesn't mean that someone couldn't hack a bit of the ol' webOS onto an HP product in the future if they wanted to, but their current status with webOS is the same as the rest of the "other leading operating systems" at the moment. Read The Full Story

webOS goes Open Source

Chris Burns, Dec 9th 2011 Discuss [14]

This week HP announced that their mobile operating system webOS will be contributed to the open source community. While HP assures us that they will be active in the development and support of webOS in the future, they’re now offering the operating system up to the “development power” of the open source community where they’re sure both applications and web services will be developed en masse for the next generation of mobile devices. HP assures developers that webOS offers a number of benefits backed up by an easy to work with set of standard web technologies – in short, here you go world, have fun!

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Final decision on the fate of WebOS to be decided today

Shane McGlaun, Dec 9th 2011 Discuss [4]

In November, we heard that a meeting to decide the fate of WebOS was happening within two weeks. HP is set for an all hands on deck meeting today to decide the fate of WebOS. The word of the meeting surfaced yesterday and it is set for this morning. Precentral reports that HP CEO Meg Whitman has looked at all the options and made a decision on the fate of the OS. The meeting is reportedly set for 10:30 PST. Read The Full Story

HP TouchPad fire sale to restart December 11

Rue Liu, Dec 7th 2011 Discuss [14]

HP is preparing another fire sale for its HP TouchPad tablets just in time for the holidays. The limited time sale will begin at 6:00PM Central time on Sunday, December 11, and is only available through HP's eBay store. Both the 16GB and 32GB models will be available, but quantities are limited. Read The Full Story

HP Folio 13 Ultrabook on sale now

Chris Davies, Dec 7th 2011 Discuss [2]

The new ENVY range isn't the only thing HP has new in notebook sales today; the HP Folio 13 ultrabook is also ready for primetime, offering 13.3-inches of Core i3 or i5 ultraportable. Announced last month, the Folio 13 has 4GB of RAM and a 128GB SSD, along with a 1366 x 768 display, in a 3.3-pound 0.7-inch tall chassis. Read The Full Story

HP ENVY 15, ENVY 17 and ENVY 17 3D go on sale

Chris Davies, Dec 7th 2011 Discuss [7]

HP's updated ENVY 15 and ENVY 17 notebooks have gone up for sale as promised, offering second-gen Intel Core i5 and i7 processors, slick metal chassis and Beats by Dr.Dre audio. The new laptops use 1GB AMD Radeon graphics, up to 6GB of DDR3 memory and a choice of HDD or SSD storage, while connectivity includes HDMI, WiFi b/g/n, Bluetooth and DisplayPort. Pricing and more after the cut. Read The Full Story

HP TouchPad Go turns up on eBay

Shane McGlaun, Dec 5th 2011 Discuss [3]

The only time the HP TouchPad sold well was when the tablet went on $99 fire sale shortly after it was discontinued. Back when the original TouchPad was announced we had also heard that there would be another flavor of that tablet called the TouchPad Go with a 7-inch screen. That tablet crossed the FCC for approvals and was spied online a couple times. Read The Full Story

HP webOS decision within two weeks

Chris Davies, Nov 30th 2011 Discuss [5]

HP will announce a decision regarding the future of webOS within the next two weeks, CEO Meg Whitman has confirmed, as the company attempts to hold off Apple and readies its first Windows 8 tablet. Apple could well overtake HP in 2012, Whitman said in interview with French paper Le Figaro, though the chief exec said the products she has introduced into the pipeline should make the company more competitive when they arrive in 2013.

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HP printer loophole permits data harvesting [Update: HP responds]

Chris Davies, Nov 29th 2011 Discuss [0]

Certain HP printers could be remotely persuaded to collect confidential information or even cause physical damage, researchers have demonstrated, with a covert reprograming hack causing them to overheat and present a possible fire hazard. The government and industry funded research team at Columbia University were able to tweak an official HP management tool to include malicious programming in with a regular print job, MSNBC reports, allowing them to coax some LaserJet printers into overheating their fuser. Update: HP has issued us with a statement; you can find it after the cut. Read The Full Story

HP CEO says HDD shortage is hurting Google and Facebook

Shane McGlaun, Nov 22nd 2011 Discuss [4]

With all the flooding in Thailand where many of the HDDs are made that are used in computers and sold on the retail market, production has ground to a halt leaving shortages on the market. There was an early prediction that the shortage would hurt more than just the consumer with computer prices going up and could also hurt large internet companies like Google and Facebook. Read The Full Story