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Posted May 13, 2013, 11:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Mobile Computing
It appears as though the HTC First will join the ranks of the Microsoft Kin and the HP TouchPad as the most recent flop in technology. Sales of the “Facebook phone” are so bad that AT&T has already decided to…
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Posted May 7, 2013, 4:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
Former Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein has joined Qualcomm’s board of directors. The tech executive, who most recently served as senior vice president of product innovation for HP, brings more than 30 years of experience to the table, Qualcomm said in…
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Posted May 2, 2012, 11:00 PM by Julio Franco | Filed in TechSpot, Industry News
There are two surefire ways to have your name immortalized in history: succeed in your stride toward greatness or, as so many tech firms did in 2011, faceplant trying.

Fresh in our memory are failed products like the Blackberry Playbook, the PlayStation Network getting hacked, Microsoft's Kin smartphones, AMD's FX relaunch and Duke Nukem Forever. Those and a few others have served as inspiration for us to look further back and revisit some of the biggest flops of the new millennia, starting with what many consider Microsoft's worst OS ever.
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Posted February 15, 2012, 12:30 PM by Julio Franco | Filed in Mobile Computing With Video
The HP TouchPad may have left the factory running webOS, but that hasn't stopped developers from shoe-horning Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich onto it. The Cyanogen Mod team has been hard at work getting a version of Android 4.0 working…
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Posted January 2, 2012, 2:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Mobile Computing, Industry News
In the aftermath of HP's Touchpad blunder, the company reportedly tried to jettison its Palm / WebOS properties to potential buyers for a cool $1.2 billion. If that number looks familiar, it is because that is the same exact price HP…
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Posted November 1, 2011, 3:30 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Tech Deals
At Best Buy, purchase any qualifying HP or Compaq laptop, desktop, or all-in-one computer and receive an HP TouchPad 32GB for $149.99. With free shipping, and not including the cost of the computer, it's a $450 drop...
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Posted August 17, 2011, 9:44 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Hardware, Mobile Computing
Things are not looking too hot for the HP TouchPad right now as apparently not even the recent price cuts are helping retailers move more units off store shelves. According to a report on AllThingsD, Best Buy has sold just…
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Posted August 8, 2011, 12:41 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Hardware
Early adopters of HP’s TouchPad tablet have a little less to be upset with after seeing prices drop sharply in recent days. Over the weekend HP announced that qualifying early adopters would receive a $50 credit for use in the…
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Posted July 20, 2011, 4:15 AM by Dan Seifert | Filed in TechSpot, Mobile Computing
The TouchPad is HP's first tablet effort running the webOS operating system that it acquired when it purchased Palm last year. Many users and lovers of webOS's blend of beauty and functionality have been waiting with baited breath to see how it performs on a tablet.

Has HP managed to take the best of webOS and implement it on the TouchPad while avoiding the pitfalls that have plagued the platform in the past? Is the TouchPad a compelling option compared to market leader Apple's iPad 2 or the less impressive Android 3.1 Honeycomb tablets currently available?
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Posted July 13, 2011, 7:00 AM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Hardware
As leaked last week, HP has announced the HP TouchPad 4G on the AT&T mobile broadband network. The device will have a faster 1.5GHz processor, 32GB of storage, and integrated GPS. HP says that pricing and availability details will come…
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Posted June 28, 2011, 10:00 AM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Hardware With Video
Although the HP TouchPad is supposed to launch at the beginning of next month, units have already arrived at Best Buy and Walmart. They don't appear to be on sale yet (though you can preorder), but HP is instead trying…
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Posted June 2, 2011, 7:00 AM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Hardware With Video
The HP TouchPad made an appearance among the booths at Computex Taipei 2011, although HP wasn't the one giving the demo. SanDisk, which supplies storage for HP's devices, had an HP TouchPad on display and a representative was more than…
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Posted May 25, 2011, 8:00 AM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Hardware
Hewlett-Packard, the world's largest PC manufacturer, plans to do just as well in the tablet market as it is doing in the overall PC market. In fact, the company plans to do even better.
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Posted May 20, 2011, 1:00 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Hardware
WalMart will carry the 32GB version of the HP TouchPad with a $600 price tag. The news comes from a leaked internal listing obtained by PreCentral, and there's no mention of a price for the 16GB flavor ($500 sounds likely though).
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