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HP TouchPad afterlife: Hackers bringing Android, Ubuntu to HP’s tablet

HP has repeatedly stated that while the company is discontinuing webOS hardware including smartphones and the recently launched HP TouchPad tablet, that the webOS operating system will continue. HP is hoping to find a partner to license the software for use on other products — and we may still see software updates for existing webOS […]

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HP finds the sweet spot: Retailers selling out of $99 TouchPad tablets

This week HP announced that it would discontinue all webOS hardware including smartphones and the recently released HP TouchPad tablet. That decision was largely due to the fact that these products simply weren’t selling. But this weekend HP seems to have figure out how to sell an awful lot of TouchPad tablets: Sell it way […]

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HP pulls the plug on webOS: Goodbye TouchPad, Pre

HP has announced that it will “discontinue operations for webOS devices” including smartphones and the recently launched HP TouchPad tablet. The news isn’t a total shock, given the lukewarm reviews the TouchPad received and recent reports that it’s not selling very well. But it is still a rather dramatic move from a company that had […]

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Rumor: Best Buy unable to sell 90% of its HP TouchPad stock

The HP TouchPad is one of the few tablets to launch this year that doesn’t run Google Android. The only other big name tablets in this class would be the BlackBerry PlayBook and the market-leader: the Apple iPad 2. But while the TouchPad’s webOS operating system helps set it apart from the crowd, it doesn’t […]