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HP Project Moonshot reveals low-power Redstone ARM servers

Chris Davies, Nov 2nd 2011 Discuss [1]

HP's home PC group may be struggling to find its place in the segment, but the company's more business-centric arm is having no such quandries: HP has just launched Project Moonshot, intended to dramatically slash power consumption by using CPU-stuffed chips like ARM's Calxeda. The densely packed processors mean HP can squeeze over 2,800 servers into a single HP Redstone Server Development Platform rack unit, demanding up to 89 percent less energy and 94 percent less space. Read The Full Story

HP may completely shutdown WebOS after all

Rue Liu, Oct 28th 2011 Discuss [7]

According to the Guardian, internal HP sources have revealed that the company will be shutting down WebOS. HP had just confirmed yesterday that it will be keeping its PC business, reversing plans to spin-off the PSG division, and although it had insisted back in August that it would continue to support the WebOS software, a complete shutdown of the division looks to be imminent. Read The Full Story

HP keeping PC business, spin-off axed

Chris Burns, Oct 27th 2011 Discuss [2]

After several months of deliberation, it’s been announced today that HP will keep its Personal Systems Group business, this PC Unit to stay in the family for the time being. Just this past August it was announced by HP that the possibility of spinning its PC business off was a real one, but just today it was noted by CEO Meg Whitman that HP will keep all ties to their PSG section as she stated “together we are stronger.” Having toured the Houston HP campus where PCs are tested for quality assurance just a few weeks ago, I can personally say that the force is strong with this one, as it were.

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HP TouchPad may be revived with Windows 8

Rue Liu, Oct 25th 2011 Discuss [16]

It looks like HP is still undecided about its TouchPad tablet. Despite the company's announcement back in August that it would discontinue webOS hardware, rumors now suggest that under Meg Whitman's lead as HP's new CEO, the company could revive the tablet by powering it with Windows 8. According to some HP employees, the company is currently testing the TouchPad with Windows 8 as part of a "proof-of-concept." Read The Full Story

Rumor: Head of webOS dev relations to leave HP

Shane McGlaun, Oct 25th 2011 Discuss [0]

I never really understood why HP thought buying Palm for $1.2 billion simply to get hands on webOS was a good idea. Palm was unable to mount anything resembling a fight against Android and iOS in the smartphone OS wars making webOS an also ran at best. Still HP plunked down big cash, revamped webOS slightly and tossed it onto the market inside the TouchPad only to see the tablet fail miserably. Read The Full Story

TouchPad gets webOS 3.0.4 as backorder slates ship

Shane McGlaun, Oct 18th 2011 Discuss [8]

The death of the HP TouchPad has been a slow and prolonged one. The tablet seems to be in the final death throws right now though. HP is apparently finally shipping out the last batch of the TouchPads right now. Nate over at The Digital Reader reports that he received an email from HP telling him his tablet has shipped. Some folks won't be that lucky though, HP has said it oversold the tablets it had left. Read The Full Story

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HP Making of Elite Tour 2011 Roundup [our complete Video tour of HP Houston campus]

Chris Burns, Oct 12th 2011 Discuss [0]

Recently HP invited SlashGear and a handful of other USA-based publications as well as a few arms full of international publications to take a tour of their HP Elite PC testing facilities. What we got to see was no less than the harshest of tests on notebooks and desktop computers from their Elite line of computers, all of it in agonizingly complete detail. What we’ve got for you here, just incase you’ve missed anything, is a complete round-up of our tour. There’s also a couple of b-roll videos, one of them explaining some imploded buildings on campus, just for the fun of it.

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HP may decide fate of webOS this week

Rue Liu, Oct 10th 2011 Discuss [9]

Ever since HP announced back in August that it was discontinuing WebOS hardware, the platform has been left hanging with an uncertain future. However, new rumors have surfaced that the company could decide the fate of WebOS sometime this week. According to people familiar with the situation, HP is set to hold an all-hands meeting tomorrow to finally iron things out. Read The Full Story

CyanogenMod 7.1 Android hack released, HP Touchpad inclusion imminent

Chris Burns, Oct 10th 2011 Discuss [9]

If there's a king of Android ROMs, aka complete replacement of the visible workings of a mobile device in this case, it's CyanogenMod. For those of you that do not know, CyanogenMod is used by thousands of Android users across the earth, it being the most used Android ROM by far, and today the developers behind the project have announced that it's been upgraded to version 7.1. This version continues to closely replicate Android 2.3 Gingerbread, now with a new laundry list of feature updates as well as a short list of new devices it will work with, including, yes indeed, the HP TouchPad we've been waiting so long to modify. Read The Full Story

HP TouchPad dual-booting with Android, ready for download now

Chris Burns, Oct 5th 2011 Discuss [24]

You've heard the rumors - the sold-out WebOS HP TouchPad tablet, now running Android! But did you know that you can make such a thing happen for yourself? Truly, the process has become as simple as it might ever get, courtesy of those lovely developer hackers on XDA Developers Forum. The great thing about the process we're reporting here today is that you can keep your original WebOS mobile operating system in-tact while you allow access for yourself to Android, a much more diverse operating system at this point, this therefor giving you the $100 dual-core tablet you've always wanted, no holds barred! Read The Full Story

HP CEO: PC spin-off decision by October’s end; Dell CEO weighs in

Chris Davies, Oct 5th 2011 Discuss [0]

HP CEO Meg Whitman hopes to have a decision regarding spinning off the company's PC business before the end of October 2011, she has confirmed, ahead of the company's previous target of the end of this year. Speaking at Fortune magazine's Most Powerful Women Summit this week, Reuters reports, Whitman said her timescale priorities were far more ambitious than those of Leo Apotheker, whom she replaced, "because uncertainty is not our friend here." Read The Full Story

Dell and HP Ultrabooks by Q1 2012 tips supply chain

Chris Davies, Oct 5th 2011 Discuss [2]

HP and Dell's ultrabook plans have leaked, with the two companies expected to jump into Intel's MacBook Air rivaling segment in Q4 this year and Q1 2012 respectively. Dell's model will feature a 14-inch display, DigiTimes' supply chain sources tell them, and is expected to debut at CES 2012 in January, though beyond that no specifications have been suggested. Read The Full Story