Items tagged with: hp

  

HP introduced the Veer, Pre3, and TouchPad one year ago today

This time last year, Derek, Dieter, and Riz were running around San Francisco's Fort Mason Center covering what turned out to be the biggest planned event in the history of webOS. It was the coming out

Editorials - Derek Kessler - Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:20:00 EST -
  

HP's Android TouchPad kernel released, still never existed

A few months back, deep in the midst of the TouchPad fire sale, at least a few of HP's webOS tablets shipped out the door and to customers with an unexpected install: Android. While HP never figured out

News - Derek Kessler - Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:48:00 EST -
  

Whitman receives $16.5 million performance-based package for 2011, one dollar salary

HP CEO Meg Whitman isn't making out like a bandit as much as her predecessor, but she still has potential to do pretty well for herself as HP's chief executive. She agreed to a salary of one dollar a year

News - Derek Kessler - Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:12:00 EST -
  

Whitman thinks webOS "has huge advantages" over iOS and Android

Meg Whitman is the fourth CEO of HP since the Silicon Valley giant acquired Palm less than two years ago. Each CEO has sought to leave their mark on the company, some more indelibly than others, and Whitman

News - Derek Kessler - Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:34:00 EST -
  

Brian Hernacki, Chief Architect of webOS, leaves HP

According to a report tonight on The Verge, webOS veteran Brian Hernacki has left HP. Hernacki joined Palm in 2009 as the Chief Security Architect and was promoted to Chief Architect, webOS, in January

News - Derek Kessler - Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:55:00 EST -
  

Refurbished TouchPads land on Woot, asking $169.99 for 16GB and $219.99 for 32GB

If you have missed one of the multitude of chances to pick up an HP TouchPad, here's one more: HP has put a batch of refurbished TouchPads up on deal-a-day site Woot, though you might find yourself taken

News - Derek Kessler - Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:44:00 EST -
  

HP's open source webOS roadmap

Just a month-and-a-half after announcing their intention to open source webOS, HP has now released a roadmap detailing exactly how that's going to happen. It's pretty ambitious, and coupled with the release

News - Derek Kessler - Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:31:00 EST -
  

Where's webOS 2.2.4 for the Veer?

The update to webOS 2.2.4 landed for the Pre 2 and Pre3 a month ago. It brought a few minor updates for the Pre3, but also enabled messaging sharing and Skype calling for the Pre 2. That brings two of

News - Derek Kessler - Thu, 19 Jan 2012 05:02:00 EST -
  

HP appoints Bill Veghte as new Chief Strategy Officer, to lead webOS open source initiative

Time to learn a new name: Bill Veghte. Before today Mr. Veghte was HP Executive Vice President of HP Software, today he's still that, but he's also HP's new Chief Strategy Officer, replacing the retired

News - Derek Kessler - Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:05:00 EST -
  

CyanogenMod 9 to bring Android Ice Cream Sandwich to TouchPad

We've touched before on the work being down to hack Android onto the TouchPad, with the last thing we saw being CyanogenMod 7 bringing the meant-for-phones Android 2.3 Gingerbread onto the webOS tablet

News - Derek Kessler - Fri, 13 Jan 2012 01:12:00 EST -