Articles tagged «palm»
Jon Rubinstein Quits HP
News Business
Jon Rubinstein - the senior vice president for Product Innovation at HP's Personal Systems Group - has decided to part ways with the company, it was revealed yesterday. Rubinstein, who had been Palm's CEO earlier, joined Hewlett...
iPhone 3GS Rival Alert : HP Palm Pre 2 Down To £100
News Mobile & Telco
If you're looking to purchase a smartphone from a reputable handset maker with plenty of onboard storage and a decent physical keyboard, then Ebuyer has a few Palm Pre 2 handsets on offer for £100. And you do get a lot of...
Hewlett Packard and Intel in talks over Palm sale
News Business
Hewlett Packard and Intel are currently discussing whether the chip giant will buy out the now-defunct hardware division previously known as Palm as well as the webOS operating system. The sale is not as clear cut as might be...
HP rumoured to be investigating webOS sale
News Business
Hewlett Packard's desire to attract developers to the webOS platform even as it ceases production of tablets and smartphones based on the software may have just received an explanation: the company's hoping to sell. While the...
HP claims webOS death an "unfounded rumour"
News Developer
Hewlett Packard's Todd Bradley, in charge of the now-reprieved Personal Systems Group, has rubbished rumours that webOS is dying out without committing to a reintroduction of his company's popular TouchPad tablet. In a televised...
The Future of HP's WebOS Unit Still Uncertain
News Business
If rumors are to be believed, HP has already finished the initial bidding process for its WebOS unit. According to those close to the company, HP will hold a meeting during which they will reveal future plans for...
Amazon Reportedly Planning Palm, webOS Acquisition
News Business
Online retail giant Amazon is in ‘serious negotiations’ to acquire Palm from PC maker Hewlett-Packard, it has been revealed. A well-placed source has told Venture Beat that HP is eager to dump its failed Palm division...
HP to axe 525 jobs in webOS hardware business
News Business
HP is to shed 525 jobs from its global webOS hardware business, following its decision to ditch the flag-bearing HP TouchPad tablet. The tablet prompted a stampede among consumers after HP slashed its price tag to just...
HP offers refunds to early webOS adopters
News Mobile & Telco
HP's decision to end its webOS hardware division is costing the company big, and its latest gift to early adopters won't do much to help that: the company has confirmed that owners of the TouchPad tablet or Pre3 smartphones will...
HP makes moves to save webOS from the scrapheap
News Developer
A leaked email from Todd Bradley, executive vice president of HP's seemingly doomed Personal Systems Group, has confirmed that the company will continue to work on the webOS platform it acquired from Palm.The email to staff...
Samsung will 'never' buy TouchPad webOS, vows CEO
News Business
Samsung will "never" buy webOS, the operating system behind discounted HP TouchPad, the company's CEO has told journalists at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin. Chief exec Choi Gee Sung made the pronouncement to...
Why It Doesn't Make Sense For Samsung To Buy HP's WebOS
News Hardware
There have been some claims - within the ODM/OEM community in Taiwan - that Samsung is planning to buy HP's WebOS platform after the company's decision to get rid of its Personal Systems Group in the short term. But this doesn't...
HP's Palm Eurostore struggles ahead of Pre 3 sale
News Mobile & Telco
The Palm Eurostore website has slow to a crawl as rumours of a price drop on the Pre 3 webOS-powered smartphone causes a huge surge in traffic.The site currently sells the Pre 3 smartphone for £299, but rumours have been...
HP TouchPads sell out across the US
News Mobile & Telco
HP's TouchPad tablet has enjoyed a weekend of bumper sales, with stock proving scarce at retailers across the US - thanks, it must be said, to a discount which has seen the device drop to under $100.The TouchPad was HP's flagship...
Palm's webOS is down, but not out
Opinion & Analysis Developer
While HP's announcement that it was to buy UK software giant Autonomy and look at spinning off its personal computer business was telegraphed, last night's announcement did come with a major surprise: the death of the company's...






