Gadgets

Whitman: HP’s Windows 8 Tablet Slated For 2012

HP CEO Meg Whitman has big plans for the ailing computer company. And those plans start with a new Windows 8-powered tablet by year’s end.


February 16, 2012
Computing

HP Spectre Will Be $1899 From End Of February

Gizmodo AU

HP’s just told me that the ultra-shiny Spectre Ultrabook will be available in Australia from the end of the month, starting at $1899. Read on for my hands-on impressions.


February 3, 2012
Gadgets

The Only Action Your HP Fax Machine Might Get This Year Is A Deadly Fire

Not only do fax machines still exist, but HP sells them, and the government is forcing a recall of nearly one million of the obsolete things. Why? They might burn down your house — ancient and deadly, like a velociraptor.


January 29, 2012
Computing

US Nixes Three Of Rambus’ Most Prized Patents

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.


January 27, 2012
News

Jon Rubinstein Is Leaving HP

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.


January 26, 2012
Computing

Open WebOS 1.0 Coming In September

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.


January 10, 2012
Computing

HP Envy 14 Spectre Hands-On: Speedy Ultrabook Covered In Glass

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!


January 5, 2012
Computing

HP Phoenix H9: Power With An Identity Crisis

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.


Computing

HP Omni 27: An Affordable Big Screen All-In-One

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.


January 3, 2012
Mobile

HP Insiders Claim WebOS Was Doomed From The Start

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.