Three patents pertaining to memory chip design that were used to successfully sue HP and NVIDIA — dubbed the Barth Patents — are among Rambus’ most valuable IP. Excuse me, they were among Rambus’ most valuable until the US patent office invalidated them. More »
Jon Rubinstein, the former Apple exec, godfather of webOS and CEO of Palm, has left HP, reports AllThingsD. The move isn’t too surprising as the writing has been on the wall since he left HP’s Palm unit last summer to move to a lesser role at HP’s Personal Systems Group. More »
When HP kinda, sorta killed webOS as a money making endeavour, they promised to keep it alive as an open source project, but offered little in the way of concrete details. According to The Verge they’ve partially pulled back the curtain, revealing that Open webOS 1.0 should arrive in September. More »
How do you turn heads when everyone on the block has an ultrabook — and most of them look like bootleg MacBook Airs? Make yours fast as hell and built from stylish glass. Updated with hands-on and more pics! More »
HP’s HPE Phoenix H9 certainly isn’t hurting for power. Combining a quad-core processor with up to 16GB of RAM, discrete graphics and liquid cooling, who this PC is for exactly is a bit unclear. More »
Not merely satisfied with their finger-friendly Touchsmart All-In-One line, HP is moving back into the non-touch AIO space with the Omni 27, a snappy, dual-core Windows machine. More »
We’re all well aware of the commercial problems that HP has endured with WebOS. But now, according to the New York Times, insiders have admitted that the software was doomed from the get-go. More »
It’s only been a little over a year since former HP CEO Mark Hurd resigned in a hailstorm of innuendo and disgrace, but — with HP having had two CEOs and the webOS saga since then — it already feels like ancient history. So this, er, blow by blow of sexual harassment charges dug up by AllThingsD? Strictly for you lovers of antiquities. And late-night hotel room propositions. More »
