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Samsung would “never” buy WebOS, says CEO
Samsung CEO Choi Gee Sung has adamantly denied rumors that the South Korean company has any interest in purchasing HP’s WebOS. Speculation started brewing that Samsung would be one of the top...
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HP TouchPad backorders shipping in 6 to 8 weeks
HP sent an email to customers today, informing them of a 6- to 8-week wait for the backordered HP TouchPad tablets. The tablet has been sold out at retailers and on HP’s website after the $99 fire sale...
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HP TouchPad (briefly) up for sale in UK again
The discontinued HP TouchPad has turned up in stock at UK retailer PC World, though it’s unclear how long supplies of the webOS tablet will last. Priced at £249.99 ($398) for the 32GB TouchPad with the...
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HP 7-inch Opal TouchPad prototype leaks
HP’s 7-inch TouchPad, codenamed “Opal“, has leaked into the wild, despite HP itself having cancelled the webOS project. Originally intended to be the follow-up to the existing TouchPad, the 7-inch...
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HP confirms webOS staff slash: 500+ could go
HP is shedding as many as 525 people from its webOS team, with the staff cull expected to begin sometime this week. The company confirmed to AllThingsD that the job cuts were taking place – though...
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HP TouchPad Android port gets 3D gaming support [Video]
Efforts to get Android running properly on the HP TouchPad continue, with both cores of the tablet’s 1.5GHz Snapdragon processor now usable and hardware graphics acceleration supported. The handiwork...
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Amazon close to Palm buy claims HP insider
Amazon has been tipped as the latest potential suitor for what remains of Palm, with insider sources at HP claiming the mega-retailer is close to finalizing a deal. HP is reportedly looking to rid...
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HP reveals Material & construction innovation Roadmap for future notebooks
While on tour of the Houston Texas campus of HP, we were presented with a lovely little map of what they planned on adding to the roster for their EliteBook line in the near future. This map was shown...
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HP TouchPad dual-booting with Android, ready for download now
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...
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CyanogenMod 7.1 Android hack released, HP Touchpad inclusion imminent
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...
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CM7 progress update video hits YouTube
If you have an HP TouchPad and have been dying to get the Android CyanogenMod onto the device you aren’t alone. You can watch the somewhat bizarre video update complete with crank calls and a weird...
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HP TouchPad may be revived with Windows 8
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...
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Best Buy offers new HP TouchPad bundle deal
Best Buy announced today that it will be offering a new deal on the HP TouchPad starting on November 1. The tablet was originally priced $599 at launch and went for $99 during a short fire sale period...
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HP TouchPad appears on TigerDirect for $150 after rebate
Even though you’ve been told over and over again that there are absolutely and positively no more HP TouchPad devices out there on the market, you can always trust a group like TigerDirect to wrangle...
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HP TouchPad Go 7-inch WebOS tablet emerges
When HP first launched its 10-inch TouchPad webOS tablet, it was planning a follow-up with a smaller 7-inch model called the TouchPad Go. Unfortunately, with HP’s abrupt decision to scrap the entire...
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HP $99 TouchPad edges out Android in non-iPad tablet sales
HP’s TouchPad fire-sale scored the company the second place in US tablet sales, market stats have shown, with the $99 webOS slate edging ahead of Samsung’s entire Galaxy Tab line-up. The Korean firm...
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HP webOS decision within two weeks
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....
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HP TouchPad fire sale to restart December 11
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...
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webOS goes Open Source
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...
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HP webOS hardware still a no-go
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...
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HP TouchPad fire-sale sells out in minutes, cripples eBay
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...
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HP brought just 8,000 TouchPads to its fire sale
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...
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HP TouchPad Go reviewed in full despite dead production status
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...
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HP wanted $1.2 billion for WebOS and Palm assets
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...
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Sluggish code and HP power plays blamed for webOS’ failure
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...
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HP TouchPad gets updated to webOS 3.0.5
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...
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HP TouchPad Ice Cream Sandwich CM9 port gets video tease
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...
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HP CEO: We’re not done with WebOS yet
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...
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HP’s Whitman confirms Windows 8 tablet this year
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...
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HP lays off 275 WebOS employees
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...
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HP releasing more webOS 3.0.5 code as a “Community Edition”
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...
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User modified CM9 TouchPad build adds Cornerstone multitasking support
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...
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Woot offering 32GB HP TouchPad for $200
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...
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HP releases webOS Community Edition for TouchPads
It was a few months ago when we got word of HP’s plans to release something called a “Community Edition” as an added part to webOS 3.0.5. Now, webOS Community Edition has been released for use on...
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HP TouchPad gets JellyBean
Android tablets bar the Nexus 7 may be waiting on Jelly Bean, but that hasn’t stopped the HP TouchPad from grabbing Android 4.1 already. HP’s webOS tablet failed to set the world alight prior to its...
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HP looks to give consumer tablets another go
HP is forming a new Mobility division which will make another attempt and breaking into the tablet space. This much was confirmed in a internal memo unearthed by The Verge, and details HP’s plan to...
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Open webOS beta released today for developers
The software running HP’s now cult-classic TouchPad tablet as well as a range of smartphones has been released as Open webOS beta today. This beta release of the software will have developers able to...
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HP Android tablet tipped with Tegra 4
The former smartphone manufacturer and current PC giant HP has once again been reported to be dipping in to the smart mobile device market, this time running Android. HP is the once-proud purchaser of...
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HP goes Android with the Slate 7 tablet for $169
Today in Barcelona, Spain for Mobile World Congress 2013 the folks from HP have officially announced they’ll be entering the Android tablet market. A few weeks back there were rumors regarding a...
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Rubinstein laments loss of Palm in light of webOS-influenced industry
This week former CEO of Palm Jon Rubinstein spoke up on Palm and the software and user interface elements the company created that are now being adopted industry-wide. For those that knew the mobile...
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