By Brandon Russell |
An all-touch webOS smartphone has been uncovered from the Bermuda Triangle of mobile oblivion, but sadly it’ll never rest in your pocket. As bad as you want it to sit beside your collection of iOS, Android and Windows Phone devices, this webOS smartphone is a…
By Brandon Russell |
HP will try and get a leg up on the competition later this summer by bundling Leap Motion’s controls right into its computers. The two companies on Tuesday announced a partnership that would see the standalone motion device, which is set for a May retail…
By Roy Choi |
HP Co-Chairman Ray Lane Stepped down Thursday just a couple weeks after he was nearly voted off the board of the storied PC-maker. The shuffle is due to last year’s disastrous Autonomy acquisition. In his place, Ralph Whitworth, another board member, will temporarily fill the…
By Todd Haselton |
Michael Dell is still wrestling with the company’s biggest shareholders to convince them to take the company private. He teamed up with Silver Lake Management and, with his own cash, ended up offering $24.4 billion for the company. Other shareholders think they can make a…
By Brandon Russell |
WebOS is no longer a neglected afterthought in the HP empire. The company confirmed on Monday that finally, after essentially leaving webOS to rot, LG has purchased the rights (not the entire portfolio) for the beloved OS, with intentions to implement the software into its…
By Todd Haselton |
HP surprised us a bit today when it announced its first Android tablet, the Slate 7. We quickly ran to the company’s booth during Mobile World Congress to get a look at the tablet. We’re impressed by the low price point — it will cost…
By Todd Haselton |
On the eve before Mobile World Congress officially kicks off in Barcelona, HP announced its first Android tablet, the Slate 7. The device is a relatively mid-range 7-inch tablet with a 1024 x 600-pixel resolution. It packs a 1.6GHz dual-core processor, Android 4.1 Jelly Bean,…
By Roy Choi |
New U.S. domestic sales numbers released Tuesday show Apple accounted for 19.9 percent of all consumer technology revenue in 2012. Apple and Samsung (9.3 percent of all US revenue) accounted for $6.5 billion in increased growth from 2011. Looking at the data, it appears much…
By Todd Haselton |
Wow. HP is famously known for purchasing Palm, making an attempt at webOS and then shutting down the mobile operation altogether. It was a sad and confusing day for the tech world, and now HP says it’s going to give mobile another try. This time…
By Todd Haselton |
Remember the HP Pavilion 14 Chromebook that leaked last week? HP just made it official, and it’s available in the United States now for $329.99. The Chromebook is powered by an Intel Celeron processor with Intel graphics and is equipped with a 16GB solid-state drive.…
By Todd Haselton |
There are already a couple of Chromebook options on the market and it looks like HP is about to hop on the bandwagon. The image above is part of a spec sheet obtained by The Verge that details a notebook with a 14-inch screen, an Intel Celeron…
By Todd Haselton |
PC shipments fell 4.9 percent to 90.3 million units shipped during the fourth quarter, which is typically a strong period for sales due to the holidays. Why? Well, it wasn’t necessarily because Windows 8 was a flop, but more because users are turning to tablets…
By FOX Business |
Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) acknowledged late Thursday that the Department of Justice has launched a probe into the tech giant’s allegations of fraud at its Autonomy division. The disclosure in an annual regulatory filing confirms reports that the DOJ had opened an investigation following the H-P’s bombshell…
By Todd Haselton |
This year was loaded with amazing tech stories, both good and bad. But there were some pretty huge blunders that left us with our jaws wide open, staring in disbelief at our screens as we wrote up the news stories. Here are 10 of the…
By Sean P. Aune |
HP is back with another transforming device from laptop-to-tablet, but being powered by Windows 8 makes it seem like a logical idea. Computer manufacturers have been playing with transforming laptops for years now, but it never made a whole lot of sense when the operating…
By Todd Haselton |
HP no doubt faces a steep slope when it comes to getting its products into IT departments, especially now, since manufacturers no longer need to compete with one another for contracts, but also to steer the enterprise away from bring-your-own-device (BYOD) programs. HP hopes its…
By Killian Bell |
Thinking of treating yourself to a new computer this Christmas? Get it from HP and you’ll receive a free Nook Simple Touch as well. The company is giving away the $99 e-reader with every PC purchase — no matter how much you spend. The Verge reports…
By Killian Bell |
When Microsoft announced its new Surface RT and Surface Pro tablets, they were seen as a potentially damaging move to third-party PC makers, whose own Windows-powered tablets may not fare so well against first-party hardware. However, Hewlett-Packard’s Head of PC, Todd Bradley, isn’t worried about…
By Brandon Russell |
Back in September, HP CEO Meg Whitman was all like, “We have to ultimately offer a smartphone,” and now she’s saying not to expect anything from the company until 2014 at the earliest. So I guess the handset we saw show up in benchmarks was…
By Killian Bell |
HP has today announced a brand new Windows 8 tablet aimed at enterprise users called the ElitePad 900. The 10-inch slate boasts a premium aluminum chassis — like HP’s EliteBook notebooks — with a sturdy Gorilla Glass display that promises to withstand three-foot drops. In addition to…
By Brandon Russell |
The fossil of webOS is being preserved and put on display by HP, with version 1.0 becoming final on Friday. The company set up a two minute demo video on a larger-screened TouchSmart all-in-one showing off HP’s achievement, saying that the Enyo 2 framework is…
By Todd Haselton |
We quote a lot of analysts around these parts. Sometimes it drives me nuts. But sometimes they’re dead on. Today is one of those times. Remember when HP purchased Palm and its awesome webOS operating system? Then failed to deliver products to the market on…
By Brandon Russell |
HP’s plans to get back into the smartphone game might be further along than the company lead on. According to a GLBenchmark, the company is preparing a device, currently codenamed Bender, that could come equipped with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (what? No Jelly Bean?).…
By Todd Haselton |
Oh HP, you really are a silly company to watch sometimes. If you remember, HP bought Palm and then famously killed all of its Pre devices running the webOS operating system. Now, HP says it has to get back into the smartphone game. CEO Meg…
