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  • HP WebOS Tablets Still a Possibility: Whitman

    Hewlett-Packard may have dumped the TouchPad in history s dustbin of new tech, but the company apparently hasn t abandoned the idea of producing tablets loaded with the webOS operating system. That news comes from HP CEO Meg Whitman, who, when asked by The Verge whether HP planned to manufacture more hardware running webOS, replied,…

  • HP’s Gives webOS to Open-Source Community

    Hewlett-Packard has finally come to a decision about the fate of webOS, months after its efforts to load the software platform onto tablets and smartphones ended in anemic sales and failure. HP today announced it will contribute the webOS software to the open-source community, read a Dec. 9 HP statement. HP plans to continue to…

  • Amazon Kindle Fire Hurting iPad Sales: Analyst

    Amazon’ s Kindle Fire will contribute to reduced iPad sales in December, according to a new analyst report. ” With our expectations for a new iPad launch during the March quarter leading to potentially lower inventory levels combined with increased competition from the $200 Kindle Fire,” T. Michael Walkley, an analyst with Canaccord Genuity, wrote…

  • Smartphone, Tablet Security: 10 Lessons to Learn

    It wasn’t long ago that Symbian was the only mobile software dealing with an inordinate number of security problems, due to its popularity. But now that Android and iOS have started to dominate the marketplace, the number of mobile threats impacting consumers and enterprise users around the globe has skyrocketed. What’s worse, the threats mobile…

  • HP Contributes webOS Platform to Open Source

    HP ended the months of rumors and speculation today, announcing that it will contribute its webOS software acquired for $1.2 billion last year to the open source community, and that it will continue to develop on the platform. But HP made no mention of whether it will continue to develop hardware for webOS. HP said…

  • IBM Launches Apps for iPad, Android Tablets

    IBM announced eight new social networking and collaboration mobile apps designed to address enterprise-class requirements on tablets. The new software, available for download today from popular application stores, takes IBM’s industry-leading social networking, real-time collaboration and online meeting capabilities from behind the company firewall and places it into the hands of tablet users. The new…

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