Smartphone Wars: Will Android and iOS Continue to Dominate?PCWorld - Ginny Mies - Aug 19, 2011HP announced Thursday that it will discontinue its WebOS line of devices, which includes the HP Veer 4G, the HP Touchpad tablet and the yet-to-be-released HP Pre 3 smartphone. With the iPhone and Android ... |
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Hewlett-Packard WebOS Software Bought With Palm 'Not Dead,' DeWitt SaysBloomberg - Douglas MacMillan, Aaron Ricadela - Aug 19, 2011A Hewlett-Packard Co. TouchPad tablet computer is held for a photo during an HP event in San Francisco. HP announced plans to end sales of devices running the company's WebOS, ... |
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HP's WebOS Failure Proves It's Hard to Be Like AppleTIME - Jared Newman - Aug 19, 2011With HP's decision to stop making WebOS phones and tablets, one thing is painfully clear: Being like Apple is tougher than it looks. Apple CEO Steve Jobs famously said that his company "creates the whole widget," from ... |
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Farewell webOS from an early adopterComputerworld (blog) - Sharon Machlis - Aug 19, 2011I ended up with a webOS phone partly for hardware reasons: If you wanted a smartphone with physical keyboard in 2009, there weren't a whole lot of options. BlackBerry involved paying extra for data-plan options I didn't need; ... |
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Summary Box: Smartphone Pioneer Palm Largely DeadABC News - Aug 18, 2011By AP PALM'S LAST STAND: It looked like the smartphone pioneer's last chance when Hewlett-Packard Co. bought it last year. HP'S HOPES: HP itself needed a boost in the mobile technology market. AP. |
Summary Box: Smartphone pioneer Palm largely deadSydney Morning Herald - Aug 18, 2011AP PALM'S LAST STAND: It looked like the smartphone pioneer's last chance when Hewlett-Packard Co. bought it last year. HP'S HOPES: HP itself needed a boost in the mobile technology market. WHAT HAPPENED: Devices running the Palm webOS system, ... |
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Summary Box: Smartphone pioneer Palm largely deadAtlanta Journal Constitution - Aug 18, 2011AP PALM'S LAST STAND: It looked like the smartphone pioneer's last chance when Hewlett-Packard Co. bought it last year. FILE - In this April 28, 2010 file photo, the Palm headquarters is seen in Sunnyvale, Calif. In a dramatic reshuffling, ... |
HP shutters tablet and smartphone business, largely killing off smartphone ...Washington Post - Aug 18, 2011By AP, SAN FRANCISCO â€" When Hewlett-Packard Co. snapped up Palm Inc. last year for $1.8 billion, it looked like the smartphone pioneer's last chance. Palm was a year into a major turnaround effort but gaining little traction despite a hip, ... |
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Palm largely dead as HP shuts phone, tablet unitSydney Morning Herald - Rachel Metz - Aug 18, 2011When Hewlett-Packard Co. snapped up Palm Inc. last year for $1.8 billion, it looked like the smartphone pioneer's last chance. Palm was a year into a major turnaround effort but gaining little traction despite a hip, new CEO known for making the iPod a ... |
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The Short, Sad, And Painful History Of The Palm Pre (HPQ)San Francisco Chronicle - Ellis Hamburger - Aug 18, 2011It also inherited Jon Rubinstein, one of the masterminds behind the original iPod, and the Godfather of the next-gen Palm hardware. Everything he's designed has been beautiful and functional, but has bombed sales-wise. And in a surprise move today, ... |
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Is The Carcass Of Palm Worth More Than $1.2 Billion Today? (HPQ, GOOG, MMI ...San Francisco Chronicle - Jay Yarow - Aug 18, 2011HP could try and license WebOS, but who would want it? It failed for Palm, and it failed for HP. If they can't get to work, can HTC, or Samsung? Plus, who would pay for the OS? HP isn't an ad company like Google, so it can't give away WebOS. ... |
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Hewlett-Packard to Computers: Drop DeadWall Street Journal (blog) - Shira Ovide - Aug 18, 2011AP The company is getting out of the computing hardware business, report our Deal Journal colleagues. No more HP personal computers, no more HP tablet computers (not that anyone bought them anyway), no more HP/Palm-made cell phones ... |
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Will Android, iOS continue to rule the mobile market?ITvoir - 21 Aug, 2011HP has decided to cease its WebOS operations. This clearly indicates that iPhone and Android based phones are the real dominators leaving hardly any room for other operating system. HP tried all attempts to save the downfall of WebOS phones. ... |
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Is Apple's in-house method the best way for Android? Look at webOSToday's iPhone - Cam Bunton - Aug 19, 2011Vertical integration is a term most tech enthusiasts will immediately recognize as being very Apple flavored. Hardware and software are both created by Jobs' company and he reaps the benefits of ... |
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Where did webOS go wrong?Tecca - Mike Wehner - Aug 19, 2011When the Palm Pre smartphone first introduced us to the webOS operating system in June of 2009, many felt that it had a bright future ahead of it. Apple's iPhone was selling hand over fist, ... |
HP killed webOS Hardware and Noah is Bummed (A Sad Video Rant)TechnoBuffalo - Noah Kravitz - Aug 19, 2011Mike was right. I cried yesterday. Sure, my cheeks stayed dry but much as Eddie Murphy once said, “Karate man bruise on the inside,” tech bloggers don't like to cry real tears over dead gadgets. At least not in public, anyway. ... |
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Ex-Palm VP says HTC, LG, Sony Ericsson and Samsung should be hiring webOS staffPocket Gamer.Biz - Jon Jordan - Aug 19, 2011Former Palm executive Michael Mace has an opinion. He's just blogged about it under the title; 'The Part of Palm that Smartphone Companies Should be Bidding For'. "If you believe that every smartphone company needs to own its own OS, ... |
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Worth More Dead Than Alive: Could HP Turn a Profit On Palm's Patents?All Things Digital - John Paczkowski - Aug 19, 2011When Hewlett-Packard coughed up $1.2 billion for Palm last spring, the acquisition was widely viewed as a quick way for the company to capture a slice of the increasingly important mobile device market. And while the launch of the Veer and the TouchPad ... |
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Will Samsung Buy Palm From Hewlett Packard?SmartHouse - David Richards - Aug 19, 2011Shortly after the 2009 CES where Palm revealed its new WebOS, Hewlett-Packard dived in and acquired the cash poor phone Company for $1.8 billion. It was a high risk gamble to get into the phone and tablet market ... |
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Will WebOS Come to End after HP killed WebOS Devices?SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog) - Paula Cheung - Aug 19, 2011At the beginning of this year, the WebOS was highly regarded to shake up the Smartphone and tablet space of iOS and Android by the media, but now it once again shakes the world that HP will give up WebOS soon. For HP has killed the WebOS devices ... |
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The tablet, aka iPad, effect is realTECH.BLORGE.com - Ronald O Carlson - Aug 18, 2011Apple made news this week with the release of detailed plans and renderings for its new “spaceship” headquarters. The subtext of that story? Hewlett-Packard previously owned the property. That retrenchment wasn't enough, ... |
Goodbye webOS: The Greatest Phone You'll Never UseGizmodo - Aug 18, 2011The awesome little phone that could, webOS, is dead. Discontinuing all phones and tablets, HP intends to "explore options to optimize the value of webOS software." If that's not murder, then it's certainly lobotimizing, de-limbing and leaving webOS in ... |
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Should Samsung Buy webOS To Protect Itself From Apple? It Might Make Sense ...Cult of Mac - John Brownlee - Aug 18, 2011Samsung's in trouble. The Korean electronics giant is being sued by Apple in just about every market for copying Apple's iOS, iPhone and iPad designs… and Apple's winning. Worse, Samsung's biggest mobile ... |
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Hewlett-Packard WebOS not dead: DeWittTimes of India - Aug 19, 2011NEW YORK: Hewlett-Packard Co plans to keep supporting and updating the WebOS software it acquired in last year's $1.2 billion purchase of Palm Inc, Senior Vice President Stephen DeWitt said in an interview. "The WebOS is not dead," said DeWitt, ... |
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Hewlett-Packard's WebOS Software 'Not Dead,' Stephen DeWitt SaysSan Francisco Chronicle - Aug 19, 2011AP Exclusive: Cogentrix solar applications denied 08.20.11 Aug. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Hewlett-Packard Co. plans to keep supporting and updating the WebOS software it acquired in the $1.2 billion Palm Inc. acquisition, Senior Vice President Stephen DeWitt ... |
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Summary Box: HP overhaul minimizes consumersSeattle Post Intelligencer - Aug 18, 2011AP, FILE - In this Feb. 2, 2010 file photo, the Palm Pre Plus, left, and the Palm Pixi Plus are shown in San Francisco. In a dramatic reshuffling, Hewlett-Packard Co. on Thursday, Aug. 18, 2011 said that it will discontinue its tablet computer and ... |
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Summary Box: Smartphone pioneer Palm largely deadSeattle Post Intelligencer - Aug 18, 2011AP, FILE - In this April 28, 2010 file photo, the Palm headquarters is seen in Sunnyvale, Calif. In a dramatic reshuffling, Hewlett-Packard Co. on Thursday, Aug. 18, 2011 said that it will discontinue its tablet computer and smartphone products and may ... |
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Palm largely dead as HP shuts phone, tablet unitThe Seattle Times - Rachel Metz - Aug 18, 2011When Hewlett-Packard Co. snapped up Palm Inc. last year for $1.8 billion, it looked like the smartphone pioneer's last chance. By RACHEL METZ AP Technology Writer No comments have been posted to this article. When Hewlett-Packard Co. snapped up Palm ... |
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Goodbye WebOS: The Greatest Phone You'll Never UseGizmodo Australia - Adrian Covert - Aug 18, 2011The awesome little phone that could, WebOS, is dead. Discontinuing all phones and tablets, HP intends to “explore options to optimise the value of webOS software.” If that's not murder, ... |
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