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What TouchPad's Fate Says About the Tablet Market BusinessWeek - 23 Aug, 2011 I missed last week's big news of Hewlett-Packard opting to terminate the TouchPad and other webOS hardware by only a few hours. My issue was one of timing: About two hours before HP's bombshell revelations�"the company is also looking to exit the PC ...
HP TouchPad sold out in fire sale Xinhua - 23 Aug, 2011 SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 22 (Xinhua) -- Hewlett-Packard's tablet TouchPad has become the hottest consumer electronics device on Monday after HP launched a fire sale for the discontinued product line over the weekend. "It was like a stampede and they went ...
	Tablet fire sale profiteers Sydney Morning Herald - Asher Moses - 23 Aug, 2011 Tablet bargain hunters hoping for a second release of HP TouchPad stock will be disappointed to learn that there's none left in the country, but those who bought one for $99 yesterday have hit eBay looking to more than double their money. ...
Buying a $99 HP TouchPad: One Person's Quest PCWorld - Melissa J. Perenson - 23 Aug, 2011 At the right price, anything and everything will sell. Just look at the rush on HP TouchPads this weekend. HP instructed retailers to lower the price on the TouchPad to $99.99 for the 16GB model, and $149.99 for the 32GB ...
TouchPad Fire Sale; Discontinued Hewlett Packard Tablet Going for $99 (VIDEO) Slate Magazine (blog) - 23 Aug, 2011 By Slate V Staff If you want it, come and get it, but you better hurry 'cause it's going fast. Hewlett Packard, after announcing the discontinuation of its TouchPad last week, has placed the ill-fated tablet on sale for $99. The TouchPad, which usually ...
Huh? TouchPads Now Selling for Almost $300 on eBay PCWorld - David Daw - 23 Aug, 2011 TouchPads selling for $300 on eBay.The TouchPad may be DOA thanks to HP's recent decision to drop WebOS but you wouldn't know it from the prices the tablet fetches on eBay. After fire sales over the weekend ...
HP Touchpad: HP promises to keep them coming until they run out Los Angeles Times - 23 Aug, 2011 The HP TouchPad is in greater demand than ever before, selling out in stores across the US and Canada over the weekend after a price drop down to $99.99. So what does any good business do when its products are in demand? Deliver more of that product, ...
	HP's $99 fire sale on discontinued TouchPad sells out USA Today - Scott Martin - 23 Aug, 2011 Hewlett-Packard knows what it feels like to be Apple �" at least for a weekend. AP AP The Palo Alto, Calif.-based tech giant got a taste of TouchPad mania after it slashed the price of its lowest-priced tablet to $99.99 from ...
	HP TouchPad best seller at Best Buy, Amazon CNET - Brooke Crothers - 23 Aug, 2011 Hewlett-Packard's TouchPad tablet has become an instant hit at Best Buy and Amazon despite being discontinued in the wake of HP's shuttering of its WebOS device business. And HP is responding by shipping more from its warehouses. It's all about price. ...
Surprise -- Your $99 HP TouchPad is a Great Corporate Email Tablet InformationWeek - Jim Collison - 23 Aug, 2011 So now you have your $99 or $149 discontinued Hewlett-Packard TouchPad. Man, that's cheap for a tablet. But now you've got to figure out what to do with it. It wasn't like you saw it coming. Kicked to the curb by HP just 49 days after launch, ...
HP TouchPad Fire Sale Deals: More Expected This Week PCWorld - Ian Paul - 23 Aug, 2011 Do not lose hope if you're still looking for a Hewlett-Packard TouchPad after the PC maker recently launched a fire sale for its discontinued tablet. HP on Saturday started selling the 16GB TouchPad for $99 and ...
	Tech wrap: HP's TouchPad sell-off Reuters UK (blog) - 23 Aug, 2011 Hewlett-Packard has finally discovered the magic price point for its TouchPad tablet: $99. The tech giant announced the new low price for the 16 GB model of the recently discontinued device over the weekend, also dropping the price for its 32 GB ...
Fire Sale HP TouchPad: Pros and Cons PCWorld (blog) - Jared Newman - 23 Aug, 2011 If you're still looking for a Hewlett-Packard TouchPad at the fire sale price of $99, you still have a few more places to look. But is it worth the effort? After all, HP's decision to stop making WebOS ...
TouchPad will live on with Android ports, WebOS developers Washington Post (blog) - Hayley Tsukayama - 23 Aug, 2011 The Hewlett Packard TouchPad will live on and on.... (AP) The TouchPad is dead. Long live the TouchPad. HP's failure is now a huge success at $99, priced to move so quickly that you probably can't find one right now. ...
Buzz Out Loud 1536: TouchPad frenzy ignites the Internet (Podcast) CNET (blog) - Molly Wood - 23 Aug, 2011 HP has a winner on its hands, now that it's killed off that particular winner. The Internetorati clamor to buy discounted TouchPads, while HP's stock plummets 20 percent to a six-year low. So, Apotheker, who's right? You or the geeks? ...
	Dilemma: Buy TouchPad or 'Save WebOS' T-shirt? CNET (blog) - Chris Matyszczyk - 23 Aug, 2011 Clearly, there were those who wanted it to succeed. Not all of them work at HP. But the news that you can buy the machine for a song--or even a mere bar (tab) or two--has struck many as hasty and defeatist. My irregular reading of the HP forums has, ...
HP TouchPad Deal Shows Thirst For Good, Cheap Tablets PC Magazine - Sascha Segan - 23 Aug, 2011 The HP TouchPad fire sale proves something most people should have known: the world wants a great $100 tablet, and what doesn't sell at $400 (or even $300) will go like gangbusters if it's marked down by 75 percent. ...
HP Tablet Apps in Doubt as Smaller WebOS Devs Flee PC Magazine - Mark Hachman - 23 Aug, 2011 Want to know what to do with your new HP TouchPad tablet? If you bought it for the WebOS apps, you might want to think again. Some WebOS developers, especially smaller ones, polled by PCMag.com say that they're halting development on ...
	5 great uses for an HP TouchPad CNET - Donald Bell - 23 Aug, 2011 If you're one of the thousands who snapped up the HP TouchPad during its brief $99 liquidation sale (or one of the unfortunate hundreds that paid full price), I've got some good news and some bad news. First, the bad news. If the tablet market were a ...
	HP Tablet: A Bestseller, Now That HP Is Killing It ABC News - Ned Potter - 23 Aug, 2011 Six weeks ago, when the HP TouchPad tablet was introduced, the company could barely give it away. Now that Hewlett-Packard has killed it off, it's a winner. It's been for sale online and at stores such as Best Buy at ...
Tech That Disappeared Too Soon PC Magazine - Chandra Steele - 23 Aug, 2011 The HP Touchpad is only the latest in a long line of short-lived products and services that were pulled by manufacturers before they had a chance to shine. By Chandra Steele Had we followed the footprints, we might have suspected the offing of the ...
10 apps for your new HP TouchPad ZDNet (blog) - James Kendrick - 23 Aug, 2011 Summary: These ten apps for the HP TouchPad show the quality of apps for the cancelled tablet. The apps include productivity apps, a Twitter app, a great zombie game and free online storage. ...
Ubuntu Linux and Android Could Give HP's TouchPad New Life PCWorld (blog) - Katherine Noyes - 23 Aug, 2011 HP's ill-fated TouchPad may be a hot commodity now that it's being offered at fire-sale prices, but those lucky enough to get their hands on one could soon find themselves with more choices than they ever imagined. ...
Free App Shows You How to Fix Your New TouchPad PCWorld (blog) - Chris Brandrick - 23 Aug, 2011 Following the unexpected news that Hewlett Packard would be stopping development of webOS hardware (the future of webOS itself is still up in the air), HP went ahead and dramatically slashed the price ...
10 things to do with a $100 TouchPad msnbc.com - Brent Rose - 23 Aug, 2011 The TouchPad has a mighty fine Kindle app, but at only $99 it's cheaper than even the Wi-Fi-only Kindle (at $140), and it does a lot more. Sure, the screen may not be as easy on the eyes as E-ink, but you can read it in the dark, ...
Near death, WebOS is more popular than ever CNET - Jay Greene - 23 Aug, 2011 Take WebOS, the mobile operating system that Hewlett-Packard all-but-euthanized last Thursday. It was a decision born from the fact that HP generated nearly no business for the TouchPad, its iPad-wannabe. And sales of smartphones running WebOS, ...
Do You Really Want an HP TouchPad Tablet, Even If It Costs Only $99? TIME - Brad Tuttle - 23 Aug, 2011 Since the HP began offering its TouchPad at the fire sale price of $99 over the weekend, consumers have been scouring stores and websites trying to snag one (or a half-dozen) of the ...
	HP Touchpad tablet plummets to $99, sells like gangbusters Christian Science Monitor - 23 Aug, 2011 HP Touchpad: $99 fire-sale price ignites huge demand for the webOS tablet. Get 'em while you can. HP Touchpad + $99 price tag = too good for many shoppers to pass up. The discounted tablet sold like hotcakes this weekend. By Chris Gaylord / August 22, ...
Buyers Snatch Up HP TouchPad in Fire Sale Forbes - 23 Aug, 2011 Visit us today at http://www.mobiledia.com We write with a fundamental belief that it doesn't have to have happened yesterday to be news, and that people are more interested in how the facts of today will impact their lives for tomorrow. ...
'Touchdroid' bringing Android to HP TouchPad CNET - Eric Mack - 23 Aug, 2011 A brick is really just a half-baked hunk of dirt, unless you put it to good use. Such is the case with the HP TouchPad, a half-baked tablet that recently became a $500 brick when HP announced it was discontinuing support for all WebOS devices. ...