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HP’s home notebook production to be moved from China to Japan

Published on: 12th November, 2011

Japanese business daily publication The Nikkei claims that Hewlett Packard will move its consumer-oriented notebook production destined to the Japanese market from the current Chinese location to its plant situated near Tokyo. According to the company, the goal of this change would be to reduce delivery time and simplify logistics, but also to use a [...]

Hewlett Packard committed to keep PC group

Published on: 9th November, 2011

Hewlett Packard recently changed its decision to cast off its PC division. Following a study determining that the Personal Systems Group was right for customers and shareholders and also for the staff, the company decided to continue to keep it. The conclusion was based on the level of integration across the company, which includes the [...]

Presentation leaks TouchPad cloud music video plans

Published on: 2nd May, 2011

A few days ago, a leaked presentation gave definitive support to Hewlett Packard’s intention to make a webOS cloud media locker in order to beat Google and Apple to this feature. A couple of slides showing the TouchPad revealed the known HP Movie Store and also an intelligent music syncing option online. The copy presented [...]

HP launches its new Elitebook ‘w’ series of notebooks and Z210 desktops

Published on: 18th April, 2011

Hewlett Packard recently added new product ranges represented by the Elitebook ‘w’ notebooks and the Z210 series of the expanded Z workstation line. The ‘w’ series means they are mobile workstations and includes the Elitebook 8460w, 8560w and 8760w. As they are expected to be replacements of desktops, the range has high specifications and includes [...]

HP’s webOS 3.0 beta rolled out to Early Access members

Published on: 1st April, 2011

At the webOS Connect event which took place recently in London, HP declared that it has launched the webOS 3.0 Beta Software Development Kit designed for the TouchPad tablet. This new software is available only for Early Access developers, but it seems that it is relatively easy to join this program. The company will also [...]

Apple’s growth will soon outpace HP and IBM

Published on: 28th March, 2011

George Colony, Forrester Research CEO, has recently placed a forecast that Apple’s growth will continue to outpace that of its rivals, HP and IBM. The two companies will most likely fall behind, in terms of yearly income, as early as 2013. The CEO expects Apple’s revenues to surpass $200 billion during the same time period. [...]

HP’s TouchPad may be out in June; reaching 100 million webOS devices soon

Published on: 16th March, 2011

In his major strategy briefing, Leo Apotheker, HP chief, has recently announced an aggressive webOS plan. He anticipated that the TouchPad and smartphones such as the Pre3 and Veer could all start shipping before June and could be part of wave after wave of launches. HP ultimately hoped to ship around 100 million webOS devices, [...]

RIM accused of imitating HP’s TouchPad through their PlayBook

Published on: 3rd March, 2011

Following some reports that clearly showed the similarity between the tablets hardware and software, HP accused RIM of copying the TouchPad, as well as the webOS when the company created its PlayBook. Jon Oakes, director of product marketing at HP, declared that his company has observed some mysterious resemblances between the tow tablets. On the [...]

Acerb competition between iPad 2 and TouchPad, Xoom, PlayBook – similar speed, but lower price

Published on: 3rd March, 2011

Many manufacturers have been evaluating their tablets by comparing them with the original iPad, but the arrival of the iPad 2 could definitely change the game. Apple’s new device has the speed and its cameras to help it get the right end of the stick, but the question is if it is a better buy [...]

HP says older webOS applications would run in a shell on TouchPad

Published on: 20th February, 2011

Ben Combee, HP developer, announced a few days ago that older webOS applications would run on the TouchPad. The tablet, as well as other devices with webOS 3.0, would run applications made in the old Mojo kit. A simple onscreen gesture space would run a small application on the larger screen. However, scaling up would [...]

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