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Is Tim Cook Leading Apple Into Palm’s Dismal Fate?

May 29, 2013 at 5:15 am

Tim Cook's latest interview at the All Things D conference suggests that Apple may be stubbornly following Palm's history.

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Hardware Hack Allows Samsung Galaxy S III to Wirelessly Charge Using Palm Touchstone Charger

June 21, 2012 at 5:15 am

Hardware Hack Allows Samsung Galaxy S III to Wirelessly Charge Using Palm Touchstone Charger

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Windows Phone, iOS, Android: Mobile OSes and Me!

April 2, 2012 at 9:28 pm

Today a reader commented on "Moving from Android to Windows Phone  7 Part 6: The Verdict", an article I posted last fall when I switched from the Motorola Atrix as my personal daily driver to the HTC Titan.

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Former Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein Leaves HP

January 27, 2012 at 10:02 am

Jon Rubinstein, the man who was the helm of Palm when it released webOS, the Palm Pre, has left the company.

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HP Lost Billions on Palm and webOS

November 21, 2011 at 2:43 pm

HP revealed its fourth quarter results today and they revealed a startling figure. The company lost $3.3 billion on webOS.

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Nokia and The Making of The Lumia 800

November 11, 2011 at 12:59 pm

Nokia is using Windows Mobile to power some new phones

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HP, Whitman Still Don’t Know What to Do with webOS

November 8, 2011 at 5:21 pm

HP's CEO Meg Whitman held a meeting tonight and informed employees that the company still doesn't know what to do with webOS.

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Obvious In Hindsight: Sony Ericsson (And Everyone Else) Should Have Taken The iPhone More Seriously

October 3, 2011 at 2:46 pm

Sony Ericsson's CEO admitted to the WSJ that the company should have taken Apple's phone more seriously. They weren't alone. RIM, Palm, Microsoft - it goes on.

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What’s Happening with HP, WebOS and Whitman (HPQ)

September 22, 2011 at 1:32 pm

What's going on with HP, and what does Meg Whitman's CEO role mean for WebOS, the HP PC business and HP Stock.

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Apotheker Out, Whitman In As New CEO of HP

September 22, 2011 at 1:10 pm

HP's Board today ousted Leo Apotheker and installed former eBay CEO, Meg Whitman as new chief executive.

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HP Gives Palm Hardware Engineers Pink Slips

September 20, 2011 at 1:37 am

Layoffs are underway for the Palm division at Hewlett Packard, which had acquired the Palm brand, hardware division, and webOS software.

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As HP Mulls Spinning Off PC Business, Plans to Keep webOS Remain

September 6, 2011 at 4:20 am

As Hewlett-Packard is considering its options to either sell or spin off its Personal Systems Group (PSG), the division that makes personal computers and PC hardware, leaked internal memos suggest that new changes to the webOS team will help to ensure that the mobile OS...

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Samsung Considers Buying webOS from HP?

August 30, 2011 at 4:47 am

It looks like webOS may find a new foster parent in Samsung as HP still has yet to figure out what it wants to do with its $1.2 billion acquisition when it had bought Palm

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TouchPad Update Brings Document Editing to webOS

August 30, 2011 at 12:20 am

For those who managed to snag an HP TouchPad tablet on the cheap when HP offered a fire sale on its remaining inventory, you can now edit documents on your slate thanks to a software update to the webOS QuickOffice HD

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Did Best Buy Sell a Developer Test Version of HP’s TouchPad with Android Pre-Loaded?

August 24, 2011 at 4:33 am

A user who reportedly walked into a Best Buy store to acquire the HP TouchPad, which is made to run webOS out of the box, discovered that he got a special version with Android 2.2 Froyo instead

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As HP Lays webOS to Rest, Developers Breathe Android, Ubuntu Life Into TouchPad

August 23, 2011 at 4:01 am

With HP's fire sale of the webOS-powered TouchPad tablet, the company's initial, and perhaps final, foray into the consumer tablet space with webOS, the $99 tablet is getting renewed hope as developers are hard at work in enabling the inexpensive slate to run other oper...

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Too Afraid to Compete, Are Good Mobile Companies Abandoning Great Ideas Too Early?

August 23, 2011 at 12:01 am

If the adage of our youth was 'no pain, no gain,' then perhaps copping out too early, these mobile and tech companies should be extinct by means of technological Darwinism.

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HP’s webOS Fall Out May Benefit Android Most

August 22, 2011 at 4:30 am

Now that HP has announced that it will not be making new hardware for webOS, followed by a strategic message that the company will, however, continue to support the platform's development despite the fire sale of devices over the weekend that placed the 16 GB model Touc...

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HP to Explore Hardware Partners for webOS

August 18, 2011 at 2:16 pm

Richard Kerris, HP's Vice President of Worldwide Developer Relations for webOS, has confirmed that HP will explore potential hardware partners for webOS.

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Don’t Buy a HP TouchPad, Pre or Veer — No Matter How Cheap

August 18, 2011 at 1:34 pm

HP ended manufacturing of their WebOS hardware like the TouchPad, the Veer and the Pre. No matter how good the discounts don't be fooled into buying one.

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HP Expects to Detail Pre 3 U.S. Release Soon

August 17, 2011 at 1:03 pm

HP, in a statement, says that it expects to detail the U.S. release of the Pre 3 smartphone soon.

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Consumers Aren’t Touching HP’s TouchPad

August 17, 2011 at 3:58 am

Sales figures at big box retailers like Best Buy, Walmart, and Fry's Electronics suggest that the TouchPad is lagging behind HP's and retail expectations for the debut webOS tablets

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HP Pre 3 Support Page Goes Live on Carrier Orange

August 15, 2011 at 2:01 am

UK wireless carrier Orange has posted the support pages for the HP Pre 3, a webOS smartphone that was initially unveiled in February alongside the HP Veer 4G and the HP TouchPad.

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Motorola Open to Making Windows Phones

August 9, 2011 at 3:58 pm

Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha has stated that his company is interested in building Windows Phones in the future.

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HP TouchPad Gets Affordable $100 Discount This Weekend Only

August 5, 2011 at 3:14 am

This weekend--and this weekend only--if buy the webOS-enabled HP TouchPad direct from HP, you will get a $100 discount on the slate

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Is the HP Pre 3 DOA?

August 3, 2011 at 10:34 am

HP announced the Pre 3 smartphone in February of 2011. It's now August.

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HP TouchPad Price Already Falls at Amazon, Best Buy

July 13, 2011 at 1:18 pm

Amazon and Best Buy have already dropped the price of the newly released HP TouchPad.

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HP Pre 3 Not Launching on Sprint?

July 8, 2011 at 4:25 pm

It appears that the upcoming webOS smartphone, the HP Pre 3, will not be heading to Sprint.

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Leaked HP Roadmap Reveals New Processor for 64 GB TouchPad, Pre 3 and TouchPad 7 Coming This Fall?

July 5, 2011 at 5:57 am

A leaked HP webOS product roadmap revealed some interesting tidbits about HP's plans with webOS as far as products go.

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HP TouchPad Review and Video Roundup

June 30, 2011 at 7:34 am

The best HP TouchPad reviews and videos in one place.

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HP Hints Windows 8 Tablets, Rejects Android

June 30, 2011 at 6:42 am

The owner of webOS announced in an interview that it was still open to the possibility of a tablet running Microsoft's next-generation Windows 8 platform, though HP is firmly rejecting any notion of a tablet running the rival Android mobile operating system as it has it...

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HP Pre 3 Hitting AT&T and Verizon in July with Skype Integration?

June 17, 2011 at 2:51 pm

It seems as though the upcoming webOS smartphone, the HP Pre 3, will be arriving on AT&T and Verizon in July.

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UK Online Retailer Tips HP Pre 3 Launching July 8

June 17, 2011 at 5:19 am

The HP Pre 3, unveiled alongside the company's TouchPad tablet at the webOS Think Beyond event in February, may be shipping July 8th according to UK retailer Play.com for the price of £349.99.

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HP Preparing for NFC Digital Wallets with webOS Smartphones, Tablets

June 14, 2011 at 7:11 am

In a bid to rival Google and Android, Hewlett-Packard may be readying some webOS devices with built-in near field communications (NFC) technologies that would enable its smartphones and tablets to be used as digital wallets.

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What is HP’s New webOS Pivot?

June 14, 2011 at 5:54 am

A recent trademark application filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office was discovered revealing a new webOS Pivot mark, though not much information is known about Pivot at this time

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