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New TouchSmart PCs from HP respond to Apple’s desktop touch concerns

Published on: 12th February, 2011

Hewlett Packard has unveiled a couple of TouchSmart PCs which could be the first to answer Apple’s concerns about tiring desktop touch. Both the TouchSmart 610 and its business-oriented sibling, the 9300, sport a reclining screen able to slide down as far as sixty degrees. This gives the all-in-ones a tablet-like interface for the use [...]

HP is allowed to launch a new investigation in Hurd’s ouster

Published on: 30th January, 2011

Following an approval of a federal judge, Hewlett Packard is now allowed to launch another inquiry in to the ouster of Mark Hurd, former CEO. Federal judge James Ware at the same time declined Hurd’s access to documents which might reveal additional aspects related to his departure. However, the decision of the judge does not [...]

Hewlett Packard hiring for webOS

Published on: 11th January, 2011

Hewlett Packard and Palm, through their recruiters, are trying to hire many software engineers and programmers, as posts on SimplyHired, LinkedIn and Palm’s web page show. Among the positions to be filled there is one for a senior software engineer for e-mail synchronization, another one for a senior manager dedicated to information and product security, [...]

CEO says Palm should have led the smartphone market

Published on: 23rd November, 2010

Jon Rubinstein, Palm leader and currently HP executive, at the Web 2.0 Summit, said that his company should have been the leader of the smartphone market. Palm was among the first in the category and had established PDAs with the Palm Pilot. It entered into smartphones early with its Treo, but soon let others catch [...]

The 14th suicide reported by Foxconn in 2010

Published on: 8th November, 2010

Reuters says the electronics producer Foxconn has already reported fourteen worker suicides this year. The most recent is that of a person not yet identified by name, aged 23 and found outside one of the dormitories in Foxconn’s campus in Shenzen. An investigation is carried out by police and Foxconn claims to fully cooperate with [...]

Palm hunting Jaaksi from Nokia and Samsung executive for its revival

Published on: 21st October, 2010

The Palm team of Hewlett Packard has made a couple of key hires in its attempt of rekindling its smartphone plans. A source has revealed that Palm was triggering the sudden departure of Ari Jaaksi, Nokia’s MeeGo head, who would receive the position of senior vice president of webOS engineering. He is expected to start [...]

First official PalmPad webOS tablet reference made by HP executive

Published on: 5th October, 2010

Hewlett Packard executive Todd Bradley has for the first time referred to the upcoming webOS tablet of the company, giving it a name. The executive vice president of the Personal Systems Group, at an analyst meeting, said that HP would push the product range beyond smartphones and would introduce a “webOS-powered PalmPad”, which would be [...]

Hewlett Packard’s webOS tablets to be similar to the iPad?

Published on: 25th September, 2010

Hewlett Packard has likened the upcoming webOS tablet to the iPad in a circulating developer memo of Peter Helm. He said that the former Palm team was advancing at full speed with an applications initiative. He also explained that HP was developing the webOS for more phones and equally for tablet-style devices that would resemble [...]

Apple credited with the highest score ever in customer satisfaction, leads over Windows PCs

Published on: 25th September, 2010

Apple has managed to get the best ever score on the ACSI (American Customer Satisfaction Index) and keeps leading over Windows PCs. Satisfaction with Mac computers has grown from 86 percent last year to 86 percent in 2010, an all-time high score. Apple leads by nine points over the Windows PCs, which have a maximum [...]

HP to drop lawsuit against Hurd for leaving to Oracle

Published on: 25th September, 2010

On September 20, 2010, HP dropped its planned lawsuit against Mark Hurd for joining Oracle. The PC maker said it wanted to reassert its long-term friendship with Oracle and also claimed that Hurd would agree to protect HP’s secrets while continuing to work as co-president for Oracle. It is unknown what the terms were, but [...]

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