It’s easy to sit here and make lots of jokes about HP and their recent drama. The musical CEOs, the abortive interest in selling off their hardware division, and especially their roller coaster ride with webOS. It’s also easy to be upset about their constant failure to make a go of a solid, well-respected operating […]
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Multiple Women Named As New CEOs; Woo For Executive Ladies!
I’m sure you know the details, but I’ll briefly go over them just in case you don’t. IBM recently named Virginia Rometty as their new CEO. She’s been with the company since 1981 when she was hired as an engineer. For the last 30 years, she’s been using that big beautiful brain of hers, her […]
Tablet Thursday Digest: HP Updates Their Tablet; No, The Other One
Welcome back to the Tablet Thursday digest! HP has surprised everyone by updating a tablet — just not the one anyone is interested in. HP is replacing their business-oriented Slate 500 with the Slate 2. Sporting the same Intel Atom chip found in most netbooks, the Slate 2 also rocks a 32 GB Solid State […]
Does Even HP Understand HP?
Hewlett Packard has taken us on a wild ride this last year or so. It got especially exciting late in the summer, when former CEO Leo Apotheker announced the company would be eliminating a few small parts of their operation. You know, like WebOS hardware, after spending $1.2 billion to purchase Palm and more on […]
HP Updates WebOS For TouchPad, Opens Up My Favorite Feature
Here’s a bit of news that absolutely fits our site’s mandate: HP has updated the end-of-lifed TouchPad’s version of webOS to 3.0.4. There are some nice little tweaks (support for OGG files, a camera app at last, and performance boosts), but the main thing I can’t wait to try is the phone pairing. Originally, you […]
No Known Plans For Flux Capacitors, But Memristors Coming In 2013!
Electronics Weekly announces a new memory technology in development by HP. The memristor (memory resistor) wafers are expected to be ready to market as a substitute for flash storage within the next 18 months. With continued development, the memristors ultimately serve as a replacement for conventional DRAM and SRAM. Senior Fellow at HP, Stan Williams, […]
HP Board Fires CEO, Finds New One via eBay
Rumors have been flying around for a few days that computer giant HP was looking to shed their CEO Léo Apotheker. Here at Techcitement, we try to avoid rumors, but the impact of this one was enough to cause HP’s floundering stock to spike up. That was not a good sign for Apotheker. Low and […]
The Next Tablet You Buy Will Be Amazon’s
Amazon is poised on the brink on making a tremendous impact to the world of tablets. No tablet manufacturer has yet managed to create a product with a cohesive ecosystem, aggressive marketing, and fluidity of operation of the iPad. However, Amazon’s upcoming entry into the market could change all of that. Since the introduction of […]
Tablet Thursday Digest: Will Windows 8 Be Enough?
Tablet watching is turning into a really fun hobby, because there’s just so much going on. As vendors gear up for the holiday shopping season, we’re seeing this particular market segment heat up even more. Take the constantly-delayed Asus Slider, which will allegedly be here by the end of the month. The unique form factor […]
HP Caves To Demand, Supplies More TouchPads
The End-of-Lifed HP TouchPad has proven to be insanely popular. So much so that it turns out HP will be re-starting production for a limited run. The really crazy bit is that if they price these at the existing firesale price of $99 for a 16 GB TouchPad, then HP loses close to$200 a system. […]