Poor little webOS, it just can’t catch a break. Now a large chunk of HP’s webOS team is leaving the company and moving on to Google.
With tablets, smartphones and touch-capable operating systems, you could be forgiven for thinking that touch-based computing is only a new phenomenon. In product terms, though, it’s been around for quite some time, as this 1983 touchscreen all-in-one demonstrates.
HP has a long history of spending money on research and development, but as with most companies the curtain is rarely drawn back on what’s imminent from such research. In Shanghai, HP gave Gizmodo a sneak peek at its flexible display and circuit plans.
A lot of laptop design focuses on the aesthetic, but there’s also still a place for wrenching, cooking and just plain all-out-zapping as part of the process. I’m now wondering where I sign up for notebook zapping duties. Gizmodo AU reports from China…
I get that a custom built car is meant to stand out. I also get that when you get a big technology company to employ a custom car modder to do it that it’s a bit of a branding exercise. You certainly wouldn’t leave anyone unaware of which technology company you supported behind the wheel of this custom-modified high-tech GMC Denali.
A slide supposedly leaked from an HP presentation revealing our first look at what might be HP’s first Windows 8 tablet. If you believe the slide obtained by Neowin the HP Slate 8 will be a 10.1-inch, 9.2mm thick, 1.5-pound tablet — in other words it has a slightly bigger screen but a slimmer body than the iPad.
It’s been a rough ride for webOS of recent times. But despite the OS continuing to survive, HP has decided to ditch a large chunk of it’s development team.
