Hewlett-Packard's announcement on Thursday to stop making tablets and smartphones based on webOS surprised many analysts, who said the company buckled under the pressure of Apple's momentum and growing support for Android.
HP announced it would stop selling webOS devices, including the TouchPad ta...
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Big Changes at HP
The Silicon Valley giant is ditching tablets and phones and considering spinning off their PC division.
HP Will Ditch WebOS Devices, May Spin Off Personal PC Business »
HP’s PC Business Spin-Off Could Benefit Consumers &ra...
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Apple’s looking to make a new friend in China, someone decides to sue Cupertino over something that’s not the iPhone, and Yahoo attempts to prove an old adage. The remainders for Thursday, August 18, 2011 will take you around the world in 80 seconds (or however long it takes you to read this).
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Hewlett-Packard announced on Thursday that it is investigating both selling off its PC business and purchasing analytics software vendor Autonomy—moves that will allow it to focus on the higher-margin enterprise business revolving around software, services and servers. The company also said that it ...
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The good ship Text Messaging may be slowly sinking: AT&T confirmed to Macworld on Thursday that it will be reducing new customers’ options for paid messaging plans.
The carrier will eliminate the $10-per-month 1000 messages option and the $5-per-month 200 messages option for individu...
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Apple makes another weak social connection, Apple’s forthcoming “spaceship” campus isn’t as big as previously thought, and diagramming patent suits is a great way to channel your inner high-school English teacher. The remainders for Wednesday, August 17, 2011 are in subject-verb agreement.
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Andy Miller, Apple’s vice president of mobile advertising, will depart the company for greener pastures, Apple said Wednesday. His departure was first reported by All Things D and was confirmed to Macworld by Apple.
Miller first came to Apple after it acquired his company—mobile advertising f...
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Software seller Kagi is discontinuing the unauthorized Lion updater that it has been selling for Techspansion’s VisualHub video converter. In an email (and accompanying forum post) to Macworld , Kagi CEO Kee Nethery said that Techspansion would be producing its own free updater, which will be avail...
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Young children, as all parents know, love to watch the same shows over and over…and over. It’s exactly this love of repetition that makes Netflix a good deal for families. Rather than buy or rent individual kid shows, it’s easier (and cheaper) to sign up for Netflix’s streaming service and let the y...
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It seems like hardly a day goes by without Apple and its competitors taking various legal actions against each other. We round them up—the legal actions, not the companies—and summarize them for you in a little intermittent segment we like to call “Under the Gavel.” You must provide that distinctive...
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