HP has just announced that it’s acquiring Palm to the tune of $1.2 billion, which works out to $5.70 per share of Palm common stock. The deal is planned to close by July 31, which marks the end of HP’s third fiscal quarter of the year. Current Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein [...]
Feelings about the leaked HP Slate notwithstanding, the company’s already considering its tablet PC successors — and if The New York Times’ sources are right, they may be of Android and Linux varieties. Where the forthcoming HP Slate is, erm, slated to run Windows 7, The Grey Lady reported last week that a six-inch [...]
Just three months after HP bought itself into the 3D printer market by making a partnership with established player Stratasys, the company’s first Designjet 3D models are now shipping in Europe, set to start churning out bits and bobs soon. HP is offering two models, the plain Designjet 3D and the Designjet Color 3D [...]
HP hasn’t exactly shrouded its Android-running Compaq AirLife 100 in mystery — you know, considering we spent some quality time with it at MWC and it recently just cleared the FCC — but the full specs of the company’s first smartbook have now been confirmed on HP’s website. Frankly, we’re not all that surprised [...]
We’ve only ever seen the HP Slate in extremely controlled demonstrations and cheesy videos until now, but it looks like the Windows 7 tablet just spent a little bit of time in the wild — Conecti.ca’s posted up a full hands-on and mini-review. Their conclusion? “The official verdict is meh.” Yeah, ouch. [...]
HP’s rolled out another promotional video for their Slate, again—not surprisingly—highlighting its advantages over the iPad. Like a camera! A built-in USB port and SD slot! And… iTunes. Well, we’ll call that last one a wash.
The previous HP promo video hit hard on its Flash capability, and this one does an equally nice job [...]
HP has been working on flexible displays for some time now, but it looks like things are starting to get a bit more real. Not real as in actual products, mind you — but real like a big, flexible display spotting out in the wild. Doing the honors for this one is Hardware.info, which [...]
