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It’s hard to imagine a future for the once-promising operating system. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have one.
From the View-Master to the iPhone, 14 memorable gizmos that exude a style all their own.
HP has a thin-and-light notebook for almost everybody. But you can’t tell the Ultrabooks from the Sleekbooks from the notebooks.
The best way to predict the future, as Alan Kay famously said, is to invent it. For decades, however, major American corporations have tried another approach: filming it.
Thanks to the state of California, smartphone apps will soon have to tell you in advance what they plan to do with your personal data.
HP planned to make phones and tablets based on WebOS, with the goal of being an Apple-like company that controlled hardware and software. But being like Apple isn’t easy, and in light of dismal sales, HP scrapped its WebOS hardware plans last fall. Instead of killing WebOS, HP now plans to release it as open source software.
The HP TouchSmart 320 makes for a great value thanks to the impressive AMD Vision chipset, easy setup, spacious hard drive and excellent display. It holds up pretty well as a standard all-in-one, and the addition of the touchscreen makes it even more compelling.
WebOS, the software behind HP’s failed TouchPad tablet and Palm’s failed Pre smartphones, is getting another shot at life as an open source operating system.
If you missed out on the initial $99 TouchPad firesale, there may still be one last sliver of hope. TechCrunch is reporting that HP’s set to blow out additional stock of the 16- and 32-gigabyte versions of the tablet in its eBay store
The days of typing “Facebook.com” into your browser’s address bar? Gone! Bookmarks? Pah! Shortcuts? Those require double clicks. Two clicks? Did we lose a war?! There’s got to be a better way! HP might have the answer with its new X7000 Wi-Fi Touch Mouse.
I’ve been thinking of the “Ultrabook” category of laptops–devised and named by Intel–as being pretty much synonymous with “MacBook Air lookalikes that run Windows.” But HP’s new Folio is an Ultrabook that isn’t that Air-like. It aspires to be practical and portable, not super-sleek and sexy.
