The hit-and-miss DigiTimes is at it again with a new report citing market watchers as saying that the notebook space will witness some fierce competition between Cupertino, California-based Apple Inc. and PC vendors Acer, HP, Asus, and Lenovo – all of which are planning to roll out new, ultra-thin laptopts. Rumored for quite some...
HP is working on releasing its webOS platform under an open source license, and has just announced advancements in the area. The company has made the February Open webOS releases official, which include extensions to QtWebKit, Isis (web browser), integration with JavaScript core, UI Enyo widgets, and its governance model. The Isis (webOS Browser)...
Labor activist and founder of China Labor Watch, Li Qiang says Apple is on top of the issues surrounding its assembly partner, Foxconn. In fact, the Cupertino company is doing much more than the likes of Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and Nokia. “I compared Apple with other cell phone companies, such as Nokia. And the conditions...
For those of you who are still shedding tears over the death of HP’s webOS devices and worrying about the future of the webOS operating system, there’s hope: HP has officially announced it will be contributing webOS to the open source community. This won’t mean a lot to consumers at first, but open-source enthusiasts...
Greenpeace has posted the latest edition of its Guide to Greener Electronics, placing HP at the top of the list with the highest score, and Apple on the no. 4 spot (up five places since last year), calling the Mac maker “a joint top scoring company on green products and relatively strong on sustainable...
HP’s TouchPad is moving closer to disappearing form the market, but it seems that it will go down in style, as the last shipments are getting ready to land at Best Buy on November 1st.HP is not selling the device anymore, but Best Buy will have some more units available for those who would...
HP has announced the death of webOS phones and TouchPad, but enthusiasts have already found a way to resurrect the latter, through installing Android on it. We already had the chance to have a look at an Android port for the TouchPad a few weeks ago, but things were only incipient at that time, and...
After HP announced on its blog its intentions to put the HP TouchPad on sale again, people wondered when they’d be able to get their hands on the tasty $99 webOS tablets. While HP hasn’t made it officially known, DigiTimes has reported that we’ll be seeing a late October release for the remaining HP...
After successfully giving away its first app 6-pack (apparently the promo codes were all exhausted in a matter of hours), HP has decided to give out another batch of apps again. This time around, they’re giving out two apps from the first batch and four brand new ones. The same rules from before apply...
