Tag archive: Hewlett Packard

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

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

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

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

Earlier this year, HP said it was done with consumer electronics. We didn't think we'd ever see a new HP laptop or PC. Then the company fired its CEO and hired former eBay CEO Meg Whitman to take the helm. After a full month of deliberating, Whitman decided that HP would like to remain the #1 PC manufacturer in the world. Was it a hard decision? How many spreadsheets does it take to figure out that you don't want to abandon a… Read More

Hewlett-Packard (HP) has come top of the tech companies in Greenpeace’s latest ranking table of the greenest electronics firms. Research In Motion took the 15th spot – out of 15 companies. In compiling the table, part of its Guide to Greener Electronics report, Greenpeace looked closely at the green policies and work practises of 15 leading mobile phone, TV and PC manufacturers, including the likes of Apple, Samsung and Nokia. Companies… Read More

Hewlett-Packard’s TouchPad tablet is back on sale again – but this time only WebOS developers are being offered the chance to purchase it. Under HP’s Developer Device Program, the company is offering developers with coupons the opportunity to purchase up to two 32GB TouchPads at the same low price we saw when the device was sold off cheap to consumers in August: $149.99. According to HP’s website, it has received “more requests for coupons… Read More

Back in February, HP rolled out a new reclining design for its high-end all-in-one desktop PCs, the TouchSmart 9300 Elite (for businesses) and the TouchSmart 610 (for home users). Now that HP has decided that, yes, it think it will stay in the PC business for a while, the company has updated the consumer version of the all in one—not so much with more brawn or storage, but with 3D display capabilities. The new TouchSmart 620 features a… Read More

Hewlett-Packard chief technology officer of its PC division, Phil McKinney, announced late Monday that he plans to retire from the company to help build startups. McKinney's retirement comes just days after HP announced that it will continue to produce PCs through the Personal Systems Group (PSG).  “This is not the traditional retirement,” writes McKinney on his blog. “I’m not planning on spending my days playing golf or… Read More

Hewlett Packard will continue to produce tablet PCs, and they will be powered by the Windows 8 operating system, the company said during a call with market analysts on Thursday. The future of its webOS mobile OS remains uncertain.  “We’re at the beginning stages of a new segment,” said HP Chief Executive Meg Whitman. “I hardly think that we’re too late, the work we’re doing with Microsoft is extraordinarily compelling,… Read More

Hewlett-Packard's newly crowned chief executive Meg Whitman announced today that the company will continue to produce PCs.  Prior to his ousting, former CEO Leo Apotheker said he planned to eliminate production of the webOS-based TouchPad tablet, and was considering selling or spinning off HP's Personal Systems Group (PSG) to focus on other areas of business. Following Whitman's appointment as CEO in September, she said during… Read More

Chinese computer maker Lenovo moved up a place to become the world's second largest PC maker, according to figures released for the third quarter. Dell dropped from second to third place. Separate figures released by research firms Gartner and IDC on Wednesday had Hewlett-Packard (HP) remaining in top spot in terms of PC market share. Gartner’s figures showed HP as having 17.7 percent share of the market in the third quarter, Lenovo 13.5… Read More

Since Hewlett-Packard has turned away from the tablet business and discontinued the webOS-enabled HP TouchPad, the company announced a partnership with magazine publisher Condé Nast to create a subscription model that sends Condé Nast publications directly to a HP web-connected printer. For instance, consumers could subscribe to the digital versions of Epicurious, Wired or Glamour and schedule these publications for printing on personal or… Read More