Synaptics believes its ForcePad, ClickPad, and ThinTouch Keyboard will be key to modernizing the user interface for computers.
Synaptics announced today that is releasing three new touch-focused technologies for laptops and other mobile devices: ForcePad, ThinTouch, and ClearPad. But the most interesting new technology is ForcePad ...
It’s not a great day for HP employees. The company just announced it has laid off 275 employees from its webOS division, The Verge reported.
The news follows webOS head John Rubinstein’s recent departure.
HP released a statement today, saying …
$1.2 billion. That’s how much HP paid for Palm last year, and it’s also how much the company was trying to sell its Palm assets for over the latter half of 2011, VentureBeat has learned.
As baffling as it may …
Computer hardware manufacturer Acer will not be letting go of its tablet division, the company’s founder Stan Shih confirmed today, after rumors circulated that the company just couldn’t keep up in the mobile world.
Companies from all walks of digital …
Hewlett-Packard chief executive Meg Whitman says tablets are still in the cards for the newly open sourced WebOS, despite lackluster sales for the mobile operating system’s original product, the Touchpad.
Whitman and investor Marc Andreessen of venture firm Andreessen-Horowitz explained …
Didn’t get your $99 HP Touchpad WebOS tablet the first time around? The company is holding an eBay sale for refurbished Touchpads starting on December 11th.
The company sent out a memo to employees detailing the sale, which prices used …
An unauthorized shipment of TouchPads running the Android operating system has HP scrambling for leads, and open source advocates up in arms.
The TouchPads in question were supposed to ship with webOS, HP’s beleaguered mobile operating system. Instead, some users …
Online retailer Amazon moved 95,000 units of its hotly-anticipated 7-inch tablet, the Kindle Fire, the first day the tablet was available for pre-order, according to estimates from market research firm eDataSource.
Amazon unveiled the Kindle Fire, a tablet geared toward …
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Who will save what’s left of Palm from HP’s bumbling? It could be Amazon, as the online retailing giant is in serious negotiations to snap up Palm from HP, VentureBeat has learned.
A well-placed source tells us that HP is …
Samsung CEO Choi Gee Sung has quashed rumors that the company is interested in HP’s webOS software, saying that it would “never” pursue such a deal, Bloomberg reports.
Samsung seemed like one of the better fits for webOS, and we …
Two weeks after announcing that it might be spinning off its PC business, HP is following through: It just put the business up for sale.
Well, sort of. In what may be a corporate first, the company announced the availability …
Hewlett-Packard today said that it would continue manufacturing a limited number of its webOS-powered tablet computer, the HP TouchPad, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.
The company would not disclose what kind of price the tablets would …
Fans of Hewlett-Packard’s ill-fated TouchPad tablet might want to hold off on lamenting its death.
HP’s TouchPad, which was shuttered just months after its initial debut, could return if the company spins off its personal computing division into a stand-alone …
WebOS fans weren’t the only ones let down by HP’s sudden decision to give up on its mobile hardware weeks ago. Component suppliers who were gearing up to build 100,000 units of HP’s TouchPad Go, a 7-inch version of its …
Amazon could sell as many as five million tablet PCs in 2011 and become the top challenger to Apple in the tablet space, according to an analyst at Forrester Research.
Back in July it was reported that Amazon was working …
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Why Apple employees avoid getting in the elevator with Steve Jobs — With all of the supernatural success …
To be fair, $99 is a pretty sweet price for a tablet computer.
Dozens of people lined up outside Best Buy in San Francisco today for a chance to pick up the now dirt-cheap Hewlett-Packard TouchPad after the company started …
If you were one of the many gadget hounds to snag a $99 HP TouchPad this weekend, you may soon be able to run Android on the tablet thanks to a group of intrepid hackers.
The group’s Touchdroid project is …
HP’s massive TouchPad fire sale won’t be hitting Best Buy stores in the U.S., as the retailer will be shipping its remaining stock back to HP, Engadget reports.
The news is certainly going to disappoint deal hounds who were hoping …
