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HP considering webOS fire sale

By Erica Ogg Nov. 8, 2011, 7:53am PT 3 Comments

You sort of knew this was coming: Reuters reports that Hewlett-Packard is looking to unload webOS, the mobile operating system it got when it bought Palm last year, for hundreds of millions of dollars, and far below the $1.2 billion it paid just 18 months ago. Read More »

WebOS nearing the end of the road

By Ryan Kim Oct. 28, 2011, 10:16am PT 19 Comments

The end is reportedly nigh for webOS. According to a report by the Guardian, HP is set to kill off its webOS mobile operating system, affecting some 500 jobs, after receiving apparently no interest in the OS it bought from Palm for $1.2 billion. Read More »

New HP CEO, new plan: It’s keeping the PC biz after all

By Erica Ogg Oct. 27, 2011, 1:30pm PT 6 Comments

Sorry Dell, Lenovo and Acer: HP’s not abandoning the PC business after all. The world’s largest maker of PCs announced moments ago that after thinking long and hard about it, they’re going to keep on making computers after all. Read More »

Rometty to hold IBM to cloud-and-services course

By Barb Darrow Oct. 25, 2011, 6:18pm PT 2 Comments

Virginia Rometty may be the new face of IBM when she takes the helm as CEO in January, but she is expected to keep pushing her predecessor’s vision of cloud-computing related services — hard. It is these services, increasingly, that drive IBM’s global business. Read More »

Report: Amazon eyeballs HP’s WebOS

By Barb Darrow Sep. 30, 2011, 5:51am PT 1 Comment

If Amazon ends up buying the WebOS business from Hewlett-Packard, it shouldn’t come as a huge surprise. HP killed its TouchPad device, said it was seeking options for the operating system, and former WebOS poohbah Jon Rubinstein sits on Amazon’s board. Read More »

HP-Autonomy deal nearly done

By Barb Darrow Sep. 29, 2011, 6:55pm PT 3 Comments

Autonomy’s impending acquisition by Hewlett-Packard is nearly done. The controversial $10.3 billion deal was cleared by regulators in the U.S. and Australia on Thursday, according to reports. Autonomy shareholders still have until Monday morning 10:00 a.m. U.K time to weigh in. Read More »

What you can learn from the rise and fall of WebOS

By Colleen Taylor Sep. 27, 2011, 2:16pm PT 5 Comments

The WebOS technology is now up for sale, and its future is uncertain to say the least. But there are still a few good lessons that can be learned from WebOS’ journey, says Michael Abbott, the former Palm executive who led the development of WebOS. Read More »

Scott McNealy: Meg Whitman will be good for HP

By Om Malik Sep. 23, 2011, 12:59pm PT 5 Comments

There are a lot of naysayers when it comes to the appointment of Meg Whitman as the new chief executive of the beleaguered technology giant, Hewlett-Packard. Scott McNealy, the co-founder and ex-CEO of Sun Microsystems, isn’t one of them. Read More »

HP: Leo’s out, but his strategy remains

By Barb Darrow Sep. 23, 2011, 8:42am PT 1 Comment

Hewlett-Packard canned CEO Leo Apotheker because of miscommunications and lack of teamwork, not because of his grand enterprise software-and-cloud strategy for the IT giant, said Ray Lane, newly minted executive board chairman for HP. Both he and new CEO Meg Whitman back Apotheker’s strategy. For now. Read More »

At HP, the broad Board problems

By David Churbuck Sep. 22, 2011, 10:58am PT 11 Comments

Over the past year, HP’s board has led the company through more than a few stumbles. The company’s next CEO will not only have to bring back the innovation of “the HP way” but will also have to wrangle the board back in shape. Read More »

Life in the fast lane, making the terabit age possible

By Stacey Higginbotham Sep. 15, 2011, 1:02pm PT 3 Comments

We want information, and we want it now, so technologists are racing to keep up. From a stealthy startup in New Mexico getting funded to Infinera providing gear that could download Netflix’s entire library in 5 seconds, the secret for our need for speed is light. Read More »

So which is it HP, do you want a tablet business or not?

By Ryan Kim Aug. 30, 2011, 9:30am PT 4 Comments

HP’s decision to kill off its nascent tablet effort was stunning, but at least it seemed decisive. But now the company is muddying the waters by suggesting that the fate of the TouchPad isn’t sealed. HP’s Todd Bradley said the company could still resurrect the device. Read More »

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