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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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NVIDIA CEO: Windows 8 on ARM should target tablets first

Chris Davies, Oct 21st 2011 Discuss [2]

NVIDIA president Jen-Hsun Huang has warned Microsoft not to position Windows 8 on ARM as PCs, arguing that tablets should be the company's first focus. The outspoken CEO described his argument as coming from "a finesse perspective" in an interview with AllThingsD, and a hope that Microsoft puts its software emphasis on bringing full Office support to the ARM-based version of the platform. "That would be the killer app," Huang reckons. Read The Full Story

OCOSMOS OSC9 tablet hits US by Dec with Smart remote

Chris Davies, Oct 20th 2011 Discuss [3]

OCOSMOS' OSC9 tablet PC has gone up for pre-order in the US, with the 10.1-inch slate - billed as being the thinnest Windows 7 tablet around - expected to begin shipping at the end of November. Priced at $649 from Dynamism, the OSC9 runs a 1.5GHz Oak Trail Atom Z670 processor, 2GB of RAM and offers a choice of 16GB or 32GB of flash storage, all fronted by a 1280 x 800 10.1-inch display. It also supports an optional "Smart O-Bar" screen-toting remote. Read The Full Story

Synology DiskStation DS712+ NAS server announced

Chris Burns, Oct 19th 2011 Discuss [0]

This week Synology America Corp announced the official launch of the successor to the network attached storage unit DS710+ with the new DS712+. This NAS server is a storage solution for high performance requiring individuals, a PC file server replacement made specifically for business users. This unit when coupled with the DX510 expansion module will be able to scale out to seven drives, equalling up to 21TB, on the fly - presenting Synology's "most powerful business storage solution at this price point." Read The Full Story

Doxie Go cuts the cords, scans to Mac, iPad, and iPhone

Rue Liu, Oct 18th 2011 Discuss [0]

The Doxie Go was announced today as a new portable scanner that can scan documents without being attached to a computer. Instead, it stores scanned files internally, operates on a rechargeable battery, and only needs to be attached via USB to either another computer or a flash drive when you're ready to transfer the files. Read The Full Story

Dell tablet focus is Windows 8 not Android

Chris Davies, Oct 13th 2011 Discuss [25]

Dell is betting on Windows 8 as the company's best chance of tablet success against the iPad, with CEO Michael Dell arguing that the Android slate market "has not developed" as predicted. Speaking at Dell World 2011 this week, V3 reports, Dell described the PC manufacturer as "very aligned with Microsoft around Windows 8" and teased that "you'll hear more about Windows 8 from us and see a wide range of products released." 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 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

RAGE reviews call game both “perfect” and “lacking”

Chris Burns, Oct 4th 2011 Discuss [0]

The reviews of one of the most highly-anticipated first-person shooters of the year are starting to fall into our collective laps, and they're looking good. Real good, when it comes down to it. There've been a slew of gameplay trailers, cinematics, screenshots, interviews, and of course advertisements crushing the gaming-aimed news web over the past few weeks, months and YEARS, now we're learning the truth: believe the hype. id's newest thriller is here! But not everyone agrees on that, let me tell ya. Read The Full Story

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HP pre-production 3D formed notebook models hands-on [Video]

Chris Burns, Oct 3rd 2011 Discuss [1]

When you’ve got a multi-million-dollar business on your hands, you don’t just crank out notebooks whenever you please. You’ve got to do all sorts of pre-illustration, testing, and bashing to bits of your product before it hits the sales floor. HP knows this, and they’ve let us come into their Houston home and take a look around their halls at everything from here to there in what was called the HP Making of Elite Tour – the first of its kind. What we’ve got here is one of the first things we got to see on the tour – a stack of notebook forms.