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Analyst downgrades HP over mobile concerns
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by Derek Kessler
Jun 03, 2012
Shares of HP were down more than 6% on Friday on a day where the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 2.2%. With no real news to speak of out of Palo Alto, what drove the drop? It was a downgrade...
Oracle considered purchasing Palm or RIM to jump into the smartphone business
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by Derek Kessler
Apr 17, 2012
April 2010 brought the surprise announcement that HP was purchasing Palm for $1.2 billion. It wasn't a surprised that Palm was for sale or that they had found somebody to buy them up, the...
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by Derek Kessler
Aug 18, 2011
When HP bought Palm, they set their sights on the mobile market and getting a #2 marketshare position in the tablet market behind the iPad. HP spent $1.2 billion on Palm, and immediately started...
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by Tim Stiffler-Dean
Aug 14, 2011
Welcome to another edition of PreCental's webOS Weekly. where you'll get a quick look at all of the latest news from the webOS world, plus see what's going on in the community and event calendars....
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by Derek Kessler
Jul 30, 2011
Whether you have a Palm Pre or HP TouchPad, there’s still something pretty major missing from your device: document editing. While you can go ahead and use Google Docs through the web browser, we...
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by Tim Stiffler-Dean
Jul 30, 2011
Our sister site TiPB.com has found a bit of disappointing news for AT&T customers; Starting October 1st this year, customers who still have their "unlimited" data package for smartphones or...
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by Tim Stiffler-Dean
Jul 06, 2011
If you're a big music fan (or even a small one), this bit of news will probably be exciting for you. Spotify, the award-winning and fantastically applauded music streaming service that has taken...
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by Tim Stiffler-Dean
Jul 06, 2011
When we first took a look a few weeks ago at the possibility of HP licensing out webOS to other manufacturers, of which Samsung was named a possibility, there was a lot of polarizing discussion...
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by Tim Stiffler-Dean
Jun 21, 2011
With a steep set of qualifications and skills required for the position, HP has listed an NFC Engineer on their Trovix job recruitment page. As we told you earlier this month, this job listing...
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by Tim Stiffler-Dean
Jun 06, 2011
It's June 6th, 2011, and we all know what that means. Today is the two year anniversary of the original launch of the Palm Pre "minus" on Sprint. Last year, quite a few of our members declared...