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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 September 14, 2012, 2:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Hardware, Mobile Computing
Rumors of an Amazon smartphone and even one from Facebook have been littering tech sites for quite some time but now it appears that another tech giant is focusing their attention on mobile. During an interview on the Fox Business…
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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 January 27, 2012, 1:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News, Software
Former Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein has left Hewlett-Packard effective today. No reason was given for his departure although it seems that both parties split on good terms, as first reported by All Things D. Rubinstein has reportedly completed his mandatory...
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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 30, 2011, 1:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Software, The Web
HP will announce the fate of WebOS in the next two weeks, according to CEO Meg Whitman in an interview with French newspaper Le Figaro. Although Whitman didn’t hint one way or the other regarding the future of the OS,…
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Posted September 30, 2011, 12:30 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Mobile Computing, Industry News
Another day, another webOS acquisition rumor. This time word on the grapevine is that Amazon is seriously interested in picking up what's left of Palm, and that its current parent company HP is more than ready to rid itself of…
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Posted July 21, 2010, 2:41 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Mobile Computing
After HP completed its Palm acquisition earlier this month, everyone pretty much assumed the company would drop its plans of a Windows 7 equipped tablet and focus on webOS instead. Well, that may not be the case after all. A…
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