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Article | 23/08/2011 Microsoft pursues webOS devs, offers free phones
Taking advantage of Hewlett-Packard's departure from the tablet and smartphone market, Microsoft has offered webOS developers free phones, tools and t...
Article | 22/08/2011 Harvey Norman clearing HP TouchPad stocks for $98
Retailer Harvey Norman is selling HP's discontinued TouchPad tablet for just $98, in a bid to clear Australian stocks of the failed webOS device.
Article | 20/08/2011 IBM: The PC is the new mainframe
"The PC is dead!" We've heard that message a lot since the birth of Apple's iPad, but when one of the creators of IBM's first PC added his voice to th...
Article | 20/08/2011 In iPad's shadow, HP ditches tablet hopes
Considering how hot the tablet market is right now, Thursday's decision by Hewlett-Packard (HP) <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/921929...
Article | 21/08/2011 $99 TouchPad too good to pass up
News is spreading quickly online that HP is going to clear out the vast TouchPad inventory by dropping the price to an offer you can't refuse.
Article | 20/08/2011 Five features that shouldn't die with the HP TouchPad, WebOS
Barely two months after the HP TouchPad launched, and we're already writing its obituary. Even RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook tablet has survived for longe...
Article | 21/08/2011 HP's $US99 TouchPad tablet selling out in retailer fire sale
Some retailers sold out remaining Hewlett-Packard TouchPad tablets in just a few hours on Saturday after heavily discounted prices attracted buyers to...
Article | 20/08/2011 HP's WebOS failure highlight PC giants' mobile struggle
Vendors like Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Acer and Toshiba may dominate the worldwide PC market, but their efforts to turn those leads into smartphone succe...
Article | 19/08/2011 R.I.P HP TouchPad, we hardly knew you
HP has sensationally abandoned its webOS line of products, consigning the HP TouchPad tablet to the dustbin less than a week after it launched in Aust...
Article | 19/08/2011 HP's webOS crashes under Apple, Android pressure
Hewlett-Packard's announcement on Thursday to stop making tablets and smartphones based on webOS surprised many analysts, who said the company buckled...
Article | 19/08/2011 HP kills tablets, smartphones, confirms PC spin-off plans
Hewlett-Packard will discontinue operations for webOS devices, specifically the TouchPad tablets and smartphones. It also confirmed that it is explori...
Article | 18/08/2011 Indian mobile operators turn to low-cost Android tablets
India's largest mobile operator, Bharti Airtel, and second largest, Reliance Communications, are bundling Android tablets priced at between US$220 and...
Article | 18/08/2011 Lenovo's net profits close to double
Lenovo reported strong earnings for the quarter ended June 30, with the company's net profits nearly doubling year-over-year.
Article | 17/08/2011 Dell expects Windows 8, Android to boost tablet market
Dell expects both Windows 8 and Android to be credible options for tablet customers next year, and indicated it plans to offer products built around t...
Article | 17/08/2011 Samsung tablet ban lifted in all EU countries but Germany
Samsung is again free to sell its Android-based Galaxy Tab 10.1 in all European Union countries except for Germany, after a court in Düsseldorf change...