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HP’s PCs: The handwriting was in Léo Apotheker’s resumé

The board sealed the fate of HP's personal systems group when it hired the CEO of SAP

What the hell happened to Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) last week?

The simplest explanation is the one suggested Thursday by Techcrunch's MG Siegler and picked up Sunday by Daring Fireball's John Gruber: HP's board put an enterprise software guy in charge of a...

HP washing its hands of webOS: discontinues tablets, Pre phones

Hewlett Packard confirmed today that it will discontinue all current operations related to webOS devices via a press release. The announcement comes less than two months after HP launched its first webOS tablet, the HP...

HP Dusts Off Pre 2 and webOS For A Second Round Against Apple

Apple’s put down webOS before in the smartphone wars, but you can’t keep a solid operating system down for the count: six months after HP acquired Palm, they have just announced webOS 2.0 and the Pre 2 smartphone. When it comes to webOS 2.0, there’s...

Feature: From Geek to Chic: a decade of smartphone evolution

Over the past ten years, the smartphone has gone from a large, belt-holstered badge of geekiness to a mass-market mobile computing platform. In the mid-'90s, PDAs were being paired with mobile phones for the ultimate in mobil......

HP’s webOS 2.0 To Boast MobileMe Integration

HP soon intends to relaunch their Palm-acquired webOS mobile operating system with a major new version, which they intend to use in a new lineup of devices to compete directly with iOS devices like the iPad. One new addition to the webOS arsenal of sof...

Survey: Android surges, iPhone stalls

While demand for BlackBerries and Palm Pres is drying up, according to ChangeWave Take this with the usual grain of salt, based, as it is, on a survey of early adopters who have already decided to buy a smartphone in the next three months. But in a ChangeWave report released Wednesday, 30% of respondents said they would...

Exit Apple: The man who made the iPod

Tony Fadell leaves Apple nearly 17 months after losing the iPod/iPhone division He came to Apple (AAPL) in 2001 with plans for building what would become the iPod. By 2006 he had replaced Jon Rubinstein — who went on to build the Palm (PALM) Pre — as head of Apple's iPod division, in charge of both...

feature: RIP Palm: it’s over, and here’s why

In January of 2009, shares of Palm traded at a little over $3 as everyone awaited details of the once-mighty smartphone maker's plans to save itself from certain death. In the wake...

Apple talks tough to handset makers

The HTC lawsuit capped blunt talks that have reportedly shaken their faith in Google Oppenheimer's Yair Reiner issued a behind-the-scenes report Tuesday that sheds a lot of light on the patent suits Apple (AAPL) filed last week against HTC, the Taiwanese smartphone maker. Citing "industry checks," Reiner writes that: "Starting in January, Apple launched a series of C-Level...

How callers rate the carriers

Verizon leads the pack. AT&T is No. 2. T-Mobile and Sprint bring up the rear There's bad news for Apple (AAPL) and not such great news for Palm (PALM) in a BrandIndex consumer survey published Tuesday by YouGov. Both firms originally tied their cellphones to exclusive U.S. carriers — AT&T and Sprint, respectively — neither of...

iPhone devsugar: App Store approval in…one hour?

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Approximately one hour after uploading his new application update to iTunes Connect, Bristol-based iPhone developer Rob Jonson of Hobbyist software got the surprise of his week: an official Apple green light. His latest update to his VLC Remote application had been approved...

Google phone vs. Apple iPhone

At the end of two years, the Nexus One will have cost you $500 less than the iPhone On the heels of Google's (GOOG) release of the HTC Nexus One — popularly known as the Google phone — the folks at BillShrink have done us all a favor. They've put out one of their handy charts comparing...