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  HP has announced the pricing and availability of its first webOS powered tablet. The TouchPad will be released in the United States on July carrying a price tag of $499 and $599 for 16GB and 32GB respectively. As for the availability in other regions, HP has confirmed that consumers in UK, France, Germany and [...]

  In addition to Pre3 and Veer devices, HP also introduced a TouchPad tablet, powered by webOS. The TouchPad is HP’s answer to Apple’s iPad and although TouchPad resembles Apple’s offering, the HP tablet is spec’d superiorly. The 9.7-inch TouchPad features a dual-core Snapdragon processor, 3G, touchscreen display supporting XGA resolution (1024×768), Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, A-GPS, [...]

  HP at an event yesterday unveiled new offerings powered by webOS. The two smartphones that made its way out are Pre3 and Veer. The HP Pre3 is similar in design like its predecessor but ups the ante with a 3.58-inch WVGA touchscreen display and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon (MSM8x55) 1.4GHz processor. Pre3’s feature set includes 3G [...]

  We know now what to expect at HP Palm’s event scheduled next month. Engadget has got their mitts on info and pics of HP Palm’s very first tablets – namely, Topaz and Opal. Topaz and Opal sport 9-inch and 7-inch screen respectively but are powered by Palm’s powerful webOS. The Opal will apparently be [...]

  HP has announced a significant update to Palm’s webOS operating system. The webOS now jumps to version 2.0 and brings a lot of new features. Some of the notable one found in webOS 2.0 are improved multitasking, Just Type, HP Synergy, Adobe Flash 10.1 support, Skype Mobile (Verizon users only), browser with HTML5 support, [...]

  Oracle yesterday announced that HP’s ex-CEO Mark Hurd will join the company as co-president and director. While this news brought cheers to Oracle and its investors, HP is quite unhappy about it and has dragged Hurd to the court. HP has filed a complaint Superior Court in Santa Clara County claiming that Hurd’s position [...]

  Well, it’s official. HP will indeed bring a tablet running webOS. At an earnings call HP’s executive explicitly confirmed about a “webOS-based product in early 2011” when asked about sales being affected by other tablets in the market. Other details are still a mystery but we can expect the tablet to get official in [...]

  The world’s largest PC maker got one of the biggest shocks in its corporate history when Mark Hurd resigned as the CEO of HP. The resignation, though seemed was due to the sexual harassment accusation from the contractor but HP says Hurd’s resignation is due to falsifying of expense reports. The HP board that [...]

  HP has announced that they’ve completed acquisition of Palm, which they had bought in April for $1.2 billion or $5.70 per share in cash. HP plans to leverage Palm’s intellectual properties and its feature-rich webOS to smartphones and other mobile devices where Jon Rubenstein, former CEO of Palm will now oversee development of webOS [...]

  While Palm was reported to find suitors in the east, US-based HP has announced to buy the ailing smartphone company. HP has bought Palm for $1.2 billion or $5.70 per share. A major reason for HP to buy the company was the webOS, which HP believes could help them bolster in the competitive smartphone [...]

  HP has announced a designer edition of its Mini 210 netbook to lure the fashionistas. Designed by renowned designer, Vivienne Tam, the Mini 210 Vivienne Tam Edition adopts a beautiful design which is inspired by a classic Chinese love story named Butterfly Lovers and is imprinted directly on the netbook’s lid so as to [...]

  HP has announced five affordable digital cameras and camcorders that will be showcased at the PMA tradeshow in couple of days. The devices range from $99 to $199 and will be available in different colors and easy to use user interface. The 12MP HP CW450t and PW460t are priced at $109 and $149 respectively [...]

  Qualcomm’s smartbook range is bound to get another addition by way of HP. Qualcomm has announced that they are currently working with HP to make a smartbook with features – you’ve heard before – like faster processing speeds, 3G, Wi-Fi connectivity, all-day battery life etc. The HP’s offering will run on QSD8250 aka 1GHz [...]

  HP has announced its iPAQ smartphone that was first leaked in July. Previously known as K3 Obsidian, it will now be sold as Glisten on AT&T. The iPAQ Glisten goes for the suit-cladded crowd with its global GSM support and impressive battery life. It runs on WinMo 6.5 OS promising a touch-friendly UI and [...]

  HP today unwrapped its newest offering dubbed as the DreamScreen. The core function of the DreamScreen is to display photos but thanks to HP, the screen can do more than that. Coming in a piano black design with flushed glass, the DreamScreen connects easily to a wired or wireless network to stream pictures, music [...]