Tag archive: HP

Some people enjoy speculating about celebrity romances, some people enjoy speculating about corporate mergers. Every once in a while, we sit down with a beer and talk about cool mergers that will never happen, but might be really interesting to watch. This week I figured I’d share some of the more interesting ones with you. Disney + Apple It wouldn’t matter which one bought the other, but this could be a really cool combination. In many ways,… Read More

Former Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein has reportedly resigned from Hewlett-Packard, according to a report from AllThingsD. Although the move is not entirely unexpected, it still makes a forlorn footnote for the legacy of the once-mighty Palm, which helped pioneer the PDA and smartphone markets, placed a daring bet on an Internet-centric mobile operating system with webOS. According to the report, Rubinstein has no immediate plans, and his departure… Read More

Technology giant Hewlett-Packard has reached a settlement (PDF) with the Consumer Product Safety Commission that has the company paying a civil penalty of $425,000 for failing to notify the CPSC over reported problems with lithium-ion batteries in some of the company's notebook computers. The recalled lithium-ion battery packs could overheat, posing a risk of burning or fire. At least two of the incidents where the batteries malfunctioned… Read More

First reported by Want China Times earlier today, chairman Terry Gou was meeting with senior managers and stated “”Hon Hai has a workforce of over one million worldwide and as human beings are also animals, to manage one million animals gives me a headache.” Hon Hai is the parent company of Foxconn, the company responsible for creating the majority of iPhones and iPads for Apple. Gou also stated that he would like to learn… Read More

The Digital Trends team is right now preparing to converge on Las Vegas, Nev. for the week-long gathering of gear, gadgets and electronics gurus that is the annual Consumer Electronics Show. HP fired a first shot at the start of last week when it released a teaser video for its soon-to-be-revealed Envy Spectre ultrabook. Today brings a second teaser video, though don't expect to walk away with much new information or even a clear look at… Read More

It's looking more and more like Ultrabooks will dominate the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) next week. Today, HP sent The Verge a teaser video for its upcoming Envy Sceptre Ultrabook. The shot above is taken from the end of the video, which consists mostly of computer generated panes of glass folding in and out like laptop screens. It appears to be heavily modified, but it's clear that the device will be thin. We don't know… Read More

Back in August 2010, Mark Hurd stepped down as CEO of Hewlett-Packard amid allegations of inappropriate conduct and sexual harassment involving Jodie Fisher, an actress who took a job with HP as a hostess for corporate events. In departing HP, Hurd acknowledged he “did not live up to the standards and principles of trust, respect and integrity that I have espoused at HP,” but the details of the allegations against him were never… Read More

It's been quite a year. From the hype and eventual disappointment over the iPhone 5, rise of the hacker, digital corporate missteps, and the powerful role social media assumed, we look back on a few of the more poignant moments that shaped 2011.  The Facebook Revolutions spread throughout the Middle East In the late Winter and early Spring of 2011, a revolution that began in the Middle East and swept through Northern Africa and parts of… Read More

By its very nature, the first year in a new decade sets the tone for that decade. Last decade, the first year seemed to showcase a strengthening Apple, though it was still short of the first iPad.It also showcased the beginning of Steve Ballmer’s run at Microsoft and the post-dot-com run up of Google. In short, the evidence was there for the companies that would likely pull the most interest, and there was even the beginning of a hint that… Read More

Following yesterday's report that Amazon considered making a bid for Research in Motion, makers of the BlackBerry range of smartphones, it has now emerged both Microsoft and Nokia are interested in the Canadian company too. This would be a joint bid from the pair rather than two individual ones, showing just how strong the relationship is between the two companies. However the Wall Street Journal use of the phrase “flirted with the… Read More

Earlier this week we got a look at what the future HP brand would look like—or at least could have looked like. Just after an image of the minimal-meets-modern take on the company’s logo leaked, an HP representative made sure we knew the futuristic rebranding won’t be coming to fruition. “In 2008, HP asked marketing agency Moving Brands to propose new ideas for various elements of HP’s brand identify, including fonts, graphics, and logos,” a… Read More

Market research firm IDC has released new figures for the sales of “media tablets” worldwide during the third quarter of 2011: where IDC had forecast shipments of 19.2 million units, only 18.1 million got out the door, meaning IDC's forecast was off by almost six percent. Nonetheless, the tablet market showed strong year-on-year growth, up more than 264 percent from the same quarter last year. Of course, the winner for the… Read More

  At 7pm ET yesterday evening, the last of the HP TouchPads went on sale on HP's eBay store for the greatly-reduced price of $99 for the 16GB version, and $149 for the 32GB model. Within minutes, they were gone, according to a variety of reports. The demand for the super-cheap, now-discontinued tablet was so furious that it caused major performance issues for eBay, which in turn caused major headaches for some customers. Given the… Read More

So the fate of WebOS appears to have finally been decided by the powers that be at Hewlett-Packard. The mobile operating system, which the company bought from Palm in April last year for $1.2 billion, will be released to open source developers. Many had been speculating that, following its initial decision in August to discontinue WebOS development, and after the lay-off of employees working with WebOS, HP would scrap or sell off the OS. But… Read More

Those of you that missed out on HP's firesale—get ready. December 11 marks the beginning of another round of $99 HP TouchPad tablets for sale, as long as you don't mind refurbished models. According to an internal memo snagged by TechCrunch, HP will be making 16GB and 32GB Touchpads available on the Hewlett-Packard eBay store at $99 and $150 respectively. Get your PayPal accounts primed, the tablets will be available for purchase at… Read More