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		<title>HP&#8217;s WebOS Going Open Source, Tablets May Return</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/12/09/hps-webos-going-open-source-tablets-may-return/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 21:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<title>One Last Shot at a $99 HP Tablet</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=109048&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Palm and webOS&#8217;s Savior May Be&#8230;Amazon?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/09/30/palm-and-weboss-savior-may-be-amazon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 14:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Could Amazon be lining up to grab Palm away from Hewlett Packard? VentureBeat claims it&#8217;s heard as much from &#8220;a well-placed source&#8221; (well, aren&#8217;t they all?). Amazon&#8217;s said to be in &#8220;serious negotiations&#8221; to snatch Palm from HP, and that HP&#8217;s more than ready to divest itself of the once-prominent smartphone manufacturer turned webOS hardware and software developer. Amazon&#8217;s not alone in courting Palm, says the source, but it&#8217;s &#8220;closest to finalizing the deal.&#8221; Recall as well that former Palm CEO Jon Rubenstein, still listed as part of HP&#8217;s &#8220;product innovation&#8221; group, joined Amazon&#8217;s board less than a year ago. Cue conspiratorial &#8220;ooohs&#8221; if you must. (MORE: HP TouchPad Might Not Be Dead After All) But what kind of a deal? HP officially abandoned webOS in August, signaling the end for smartphones and tablets running the mobile operating system. Customers scooped up HP&#8217;s webOS-powered TouchPad in droves after HP slashed its price to just $99, and IDC says it expects &#8220;close to a million TouchPads to ship into the channel before the end of the year,&#8221; raising webOS&#8217;s market share to a respectable 4.7% in 3Q 2011—but the research firm says that&#8217;ll drop back to zero by early next year. Would Amazon really be a good home for webOS in an Android-iOS world? Would anyone? VentureBeat argues yes: By purchasing the remnants of Palm, Amazon would have free rein to redesign webOS to its own liking, and it would be able to further differentiate its Kindle devices from the slew of Android tablets in the market. And even though HP has given up entirely on its webOS hardware business after the TouchPad tablet failed spectacularly, there’s still plenty of potential for webOS to power a successful device. Palm’s mobile software was praised for its slick multi-tasking capabilities, which could allow future Kindle Fire tablets to juggle games, movies and media with more finesse than Android. I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;m as enthusiastic. webOS&#8217;s strengths and weaknesses aside, I can&#8217;t see a third OS seriously challenging Android or iOS at this point, and<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=98646&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>IDC: iPad 2, PlayBook Gobbled Android Market Share Last Quarter</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/09/14/idc-ipad-2-playbook-gobbled-android-market-share-last-quarter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:52:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It looks like both Apple&#8217;s iPad 2 and RIM&#8217;s PlayBook took a fairly big bite out of Android OS&#8217;s tablet market share in the second quarter of 2011. Market intelligence firm International Data Corporation reports that iPad 2 market share rose in Q2 2011, while Android&#8217;s collective tablet market share fell precipitously. RIM&#8217;s PlayBook debuted in the second quarter, snatching 4.9% of the tablet market, and Apple&#8217;s iPad 2 rose from 65.7% during the first quarter to 68.3% during the second. Android-based tablets fell from 34% during the first quarter to 26.8% during the second. (MORE: Apple&#8217;s iPad Poised to Dominate Through 2020?) Around the world, tablet shipments were up nearly 90% year-to-date and nearly 304% year-on-year, topping out at 13.6 million units, says IDC. The greater-than-expected growth prompted the intelligence provider to boost its global tablet sales projections for the second half of 2011 to 62.5 million units, up from 53.5 million units. IDC attributes surging global tablet sales to &#8220;robust demand&#8221; for the iPad 2 (no surprise), noting the iPad 2 shipped 9.3 million units in Q2 2011. What&#8217;s next? Expect further erosion of Android&#8217;s tablet market share (IDC says it&#8217;ll drop to just 23%), but that things should pick up in the fourth quarter, allowing Android to regain a few points and land near 26%. Complicating matters: HP&#8217;s orphaned TouchPad, which customers scooped up in droves when HP dropped the price to just $99 on August 18, less than seven weeks after the webOS-based tablet debuted. IDC says it expects &#8220;close to a million TouchPads to ship into the channel before the end of the year,&#8221; raising webOS&#8217;s market share to a respectable 4.7% in 3Q 2011 (though IDC says it&#8217;ll be back to zero by early next year). &#8220;Media tablet shipments grew at a solid pace in the second quarter, led by continued strong demand for Apple products,&#8221; said Tom Mainelli, a research director for Mobile Connected Devices. &#8220;We expect shipment totals to continue to grow in the third and fourth quarter, as additional vendors introduce more price-competitive Android<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=97009&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HP TouchPad Might Not Be Dead After All</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/08/30/hp-touchpad-might-not-be-dead-after-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[HP&#8217;s TouchPad tablets might not be gone for good, even after the fire sale ends. A company executive believes that the doomed tablet, which was more popular in death than in life, could make a comeback if HP spins off its personal computer business. The TouchPad was on the market for about six weeks before HP announced that it would stop building WebOS phones and printers, and would look to sell or spin off its PC business in order to focus on enterprise software. To liquidate its remaining TouchPad stock, HP slashed the price to $99, at which point the tablets became a huge hit. (MORE: Google, Motorola and HP: How the Tech Industry Is Changing) Meanwhile, HP has insisted that it&#8217;s committed to WebOS, with This Is My Next reporting that HP could license the software to other phone and tablet makers. But in a new interview with Reuters, HP&#8217;s Personal Systems Group head Todd Bradley said a spun-off HP hardware company might want to take another crack at the TouchPad itself. &#8220;Tablet computing is a segment of the market that&#8217;s relevant, absolutely,&#8221; Bradley said. The problem, as I&#8217;ve said before, is that it&#8217;s hard to be like Apple—that is, to control the hardware, the software and the services. HP tried, but failed to create innovative hardware, launched buggy software and couldn&#8217;t inspire developers to create lots of cool WebOS apps. If a spun-off HP computer business wants to sell WebOS tablets for more than $99 a pop, it&#8217;ll have to fix those problems, which will take a long time and require lots of money. Essentially, it&#8217;d be a huge gamble. So I won&#8217;t be totally surprised if Bradley&#8217;s dream of resurrecting the TouchPad doesn&#8217;t pan out, and that WebOS gets licensed or sold. If Bradley&#8217;s goal is simply to get a piece of the tablet market, Android or the upcoming Windows 8 provide simpler, easier, less risky options. MORE: Tablets: &#8216;Why Should Somebody Buy This Instead of an iPad?&#8217;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=95366&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where to (Try to) Find the $99 HP TouchPad Tablet</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/08/22/where-to-try-to-find-the-99-hp-touchpad-tablet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you hear the news? HP&#8217;s new TouchPad tablet has been discounted to $99 in the midst of the company&#8217;s hasty exit from the tablet and smartphone game. It&#8217;s not going to be easy to get your hands on one, but here&#8217;s a list of places you can try if you&#8217;re willing to commit to some serious bargain hunting. (MORE: HP&#8217;s WebOS Failure Proves It&#8217;s Hard to Be Like Apple) Please note that some (most/all) of these stores are either out of stock or haven&#8217;t deeply discounted the tablet yet. Keep checking back, though! For the stores below that aren&#8217;t big names, I&#8217;ve only added ones with a 4.5 star or higher rating from Google Shopping just to be on the safe side. - HP.com - Best Buy &#124; Store Locator - Amazon.com - Buy.com - Newegg.com - Staples &#124; Store Locator - Office Depot &#124; Store Locator - Radio Shack &#124; Store Locator - OfficeMax &#124; Store Locator - CompUSA/Circuit City/Tiger Direct - Adorama - CDW - Provantage - MacConnection - pcRUSH.com - PCNation - ANTOnline.com - TheNerds.net - CompSource.com - Bottom Line Telecom - Compuvest.com - FTIComputer.com - Vision Computers - Neobits.com That ought to take up most of your Monday at the very least. Happy hunting! MORE: Google, Motorola and HP: How the Tech Industry Is Changing<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=94370&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How HP Can Save WebOS and the TouchPad</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/08/17/how-hp-can-save-webos-and-the-touchpad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 13:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently, huge price cuts on HP&#8217;s Touchpad didn&#8217;t save the tablet from flopping hard. Sources tell All Things Digital that Best Buy has sold just 25,000 units &#8212; less than 10 percent of its inventory. Analyst Rich Doherty of the Envisioneering Group says sales are also poor at Walmart, Microcenter and Fry&#8217;s. (MORE: HP&#8217;s TouchPad Gets a $100 Price Cut) WebOS, the operating system that runs on the TouchPad, is supposed to be HP&#8217;s future, the key piece of the company&#8217;s $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm last year. HP desperately needs to sell more TouchPads, so it&#8217;s no surprise that HP is pleading with Best Buy not to send back its unsold inventory. Indeed, HP needs more time, but the company must also take some drastic measures to get WebOS and the TouchPad off the ground. Here are the company&#8217;s options as I see them: Option 1: Bigger holiday price cuts Slashing the TouchPad&#8217;s price by $100, to $400 for a 16 GB model, wasn&#8217;t enough. HP needs to bring WebOS into impulse buy territory &#8212; as in, the $200 to $300 range. The problem with this strategy is that it sets a permanent expectation that WebOS products will be dirt-cheap, and in the long run HP is in this business to profit on hardware. The short-term sacrifice may preclude HP from selling tablets at higher profit margins down the line. Option 2: Bundle lots of content As Doherty said to All Things Digital, HP&#8217;s &#8220;wildcat pricing moves&#8221; actually had a chilling effect on sales, because people are now wondering what HP will do next. Straightforward price cuts would only reinforce that feeling among potential buyers. Instead, HP could offer credits on content from the WebOS App Catalog and on downloadable movies and music. These deals could be extended to existing TouchPad users as well, and they&#8217;d would get people acquainted with the WebOS ecosystem without giving away the hardware. Option 3: License WebOS Business Insider&#8217;s Matt Rosoff mentioned this option in light of Google&#8217;s planned acquisition of Motorola Mobility. With Google&#8217;s<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=94055&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HP TouchPad Now $400 for Good, 7-inch Version Hits FCC</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/08/11/hp-touchpad-now-400-for-good-7-inch-version-hits-fcc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 13:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[HP&#8217;s new TouchPad tablet saw a $50 price cut about a month after it was released. A few days later, HP announced a weekend promotion that brought the price down another $50. Now, the $100 price cut has been made permanent, pegging the tablet&#8217;s starting price at $400, per Engadget. This is a smart, aggressive move by HP as it demonstrates that the company understands how much more important it is to get people in the door and using the tablet and its WebOS software than it is to make money off the hardware right away. The more people that use HP&#8217;s WebOS software, the more high-quality apps will get developed for it and, in turn, more WebOS-based products (smartphones, computers, and tablets) will get sold. (MORE: HP&#8217;s TouchPad: A Promising Tablet That Needs More Polish) And speaking of more WebOS-based products, it appears that HP has submitted a 7-inch TouchPad tablet to the FCC, as noted by This Is My Next. It looks like it&#8217;ll be called the &#8220;TouchPad Go&#8221; and come in four models: 16- and 32-gigabyte versions with and without 4G wireless chips. There&#8217;s no telling when they&#8217;d actually hit the market but I&#8217;d venture a guess that if we didn&#8217;t see them by the holidays, we&#8217;d very likely see them in early January at the big Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas. MORE: HP Is Committed to Its &#8216;WebOS&#8217; Platform (and It Should Be)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=93453&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HP&#8217;s TouchPad Gets a $100 Price Cut, This Weekend Only</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/08/04/hps-touchpad-gets-a-100-price-cut-this-weekend-only/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 17:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did Tuesday&#8217;s $50 price cut on the HP TouchPad strike you as ho-hum? Perhaps this weekend&#8217;s $100 price cut will do the trick. The instant rebate will be in effect from August 5 through August 7 on HP&#8217;s website, PreCentral reports. (MORE: HP&#8217;s TouchPad: A Promising Tablet That Needs More Polish) The TouchPad debuted to lukewarm reviews, partly because there aren&#8217;t a lot of tablet apps on HP&#8217;s WebOS platform, and partly because the software was buggy and slow. HP has improved its software through a subsequent update, but the app deficiency remains. And therein lies the chicken-and-egg dilemma for tablet makers who want to go head-to-head with Apple&#8217;s iPad: They need strong app lineups to make their hardware look appealing to consumers, but they can&#8217;t get developers to build new ecosystems if people aren&#8217;t buying the hardware. While this was true to an extent with smartphones, Apple&#8217;s competitors at least had a chance to build themselves up on wireless carriers other than AT&#38;T, which until this year sold the iPhone exclusively. With tablets, that door is closed, so tablet makers must rely on other methods to stand out and build competing platforms. For HP, the simplest method is pricing. Unlike Android tablet makers, HP owns the TouchPad&#8217;s WebOS software, so the company has more to gain by sacrificing short-term profits in exchange for long-term adoption of the platform. That said, Android tablet makers are getting aggressive on pricing as well. Acer, for instance, is expected to launch its 7-inch Iconia A100 tablet this month for $300. Archos plans to launch an 8-inch Android Honeycomb tablet for $279 and a 10.1-inch tablet for $349 later this year. Meanwhile, a possibly cheap Amazon tablet looms. All of this is great for consumers, but it spells more danger for HP as it tries to make WebOS a legitimate tablet contender. A temporary price drop is nice, but HP must be prepared to drop prices permanently if this promotion isn&#8217;t a rousing success. MORE: Tablets: &#8216;Why Should Somebody Buy This Instead of an iPad?&#8217;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=92852&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One Month Later, HP Cuts Price of &#8216;TouchPad&#8217; Tablet by $50</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/08/02/one-month-later-hp-cuts-price-of-touchpad-tablet-by-50/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 15:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[HP&#8217;s TouchPad tablet was released about a month ago at a starting price of $500—see our take on the device here—and the company has already announced a $50 instant rebate available for purchases between July 29 and September 10. Some retailers, such as Amazon.com, are offering additional discounts as well: Amazon sells the 32-gigabyte version of the tablet—originally priced at $600—for $540 now. (MORE: HP&#8217;s TouchPad: A Promising Tablet That Needs More Polish) In our TouchPad profile by Harry McCracken, the tablet garnered praise for its screen quality, audio features, and operating system, but stumbled when it came to running too many programs at once. It&#8217;s also slightly thicker and heavier than even the first-generation iPad and only counted around 300 TouchPad-specific apps at launch. The bottom line, per Harry: &#8220;My advice to anyone who wants to buy a tablet right now remains unchanged: Get an iPad 2.&#8221; And therein lies the rub for tablet makers. When trying to differentiate from the iPad, the most palpable difference capable of grabbing consumers&#8217; attention is the price tag. Any tablet with a starting price of $500 or higher has a much, much steeper hill to climb right now. This price cut is a smart move on HP&#8217;s part, as it seemingly demonstrates that the company understands how important it is to just get people in the door and using the platform. The TouchPad could probably even stand to have another $50 lopped off to really get people on board, so it&#8217;ll be interesting to see what happens around the holidays as well. The more people with a TouchPad in their hands, the more apps that&#8217;ll get developed and sold, and the easier it&#8217;ll be for HP to sell future TouchPads, smartphones, computers and other devices running its WebOS platform. MORE: Tablets: &#8216;Why Should Somebody Buy This Instead of an iPad?&#8217;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=92524&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If at First You Don&#8217;t Succeed in Killing the iPad, Try, Try Again</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/06/30/if-at-first-you-dont-succeed-in-killing-the-ipad-try-try-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 22:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m pretty sure this statement isn&#8217;t going to create a firestorm of controversy: HP&#8217;s TouchPad, in its initial form, isn&#8217;t going to keep Steve Jobs or anyone else at Apple up at night. I reviewed the tablet for this week&#8217;s Technologizer column on TIME.com, and while it has some good points&#8211;especially the WebOS interface&#8211;it&#8217;s remarkably buggy and short on apps, and it&#8217;s too obvious that the hardware was designed in the pre-iPad 2 era. (MORE: HP&#8217;s TouchPad: A Promising Tablet That Needs More Polish) The consensus among reviewers (here&#8217;s The Wall Street Journal&#8216;s Walt Mossberg and This Is My Next&#8216;s Josh Topolsky) is remarkably consistent. In the first year or so after the release of the original iPad, there were a bunch of tablets from big companies that got lots of attention&#8211;Samsung&#8217;s first Galaxy Tab, Motorola&#8217;s Xoom, RIM&#8217;s BlackBerry PlayBook. All of them were pretty rough around the edges, and none of them proved to be serious competition for Apple. The TouchPad was the last high-profile iPad rival of this sort to arrive, and it now looks like we can lump it in with the others. Really, there are two basic reasons why all these tablets have floundered: - They don&#8217;t provide a compelling answer to the question &#8220;Why should somebody buy this instead of an iPad?&#8220; - They all shipped with basic compromises&#8211;stuff like missing features or software and/or software that was brimming with bugs. I never expected anyone to trump the iPad&#8211;at least not within the first year or two of its release&#8211;but I confess that I&#8217;ve been surprised at how lackluster the contenders have been so far. When the majority of the products in a category display weird error messages or spontaneously reboot within minutes of being picked up, it&#8217;s a sign of general failure on the part of the entire industry. At this point, it seems reasonable to declare that the age of first-generation iPad rivals is over. If anything comes along that&#8217;s a truly competitive alternative, it&#8217;ll be something like an Android Ice Cream Sandwich<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=88788&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HP Is Committed to Its &#8216;WebOS&#8217; Platform (and It Should Be)</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/06/30/hp-is-committed-to-its-webos-platform-and-it-should-be/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 09:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Bajarin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Bajarin is the Director of Consumer Technology Analysis and Research at Creative Strategies, Inc, a technology industry analysis and market intelligence firm located in Silicon Valley. As a technology consulting firm, our company has had the opportunity to work with most of the vendors in the PC market and for most of the last decade we have provided industry analysis for HP and Palm as part of our work. Consequently we have had a good understanding of HP&#8217;s vision and how they view the market. And one thing we concluded early in this decade is that HP wanted more control of their own destiny. When HP announced they were buying Palm there were many skeptics. But we understood the long term value of Palm, and especially WebOS, as a way for HP to control their own ever-expanding eco-system of products and services. In the past HP made hardware, and then licensed Windows, a software program they had little to no control over. Now they have the flexibility to build hardware and control the operating system component in order to build more HP-centric experiences. HP understands that to build great devices it takes more than great hardware but also great software. Hardware is now only one-third of the equation for making great products—and by owning WebOS and adding web services as well, HP is in a strong position to control their own destiny. And if they execute well, they should develop a stronger level of loyalty from their customer base. We are seeing the first fruits of that labor with the TouchPad tablet. Although several &#8220;Pre&#8221; smartphones have been released since the acquisition, the TouchPad is the first product that was created with the full weight of the HP and Palm teams combined. The HP and Palm teams have created a number of interesting experiences around the TouchPad: &#8220;Touch to Share&#8221; and the location aware dock being a few of my favorites. (MORE: Read about &#8220;Touch to Share&#8221; and the TouchPad dock) After using it for a week, my opinion<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=88465&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HP TouchPad Struts Its Stuff Before Launch, but Is It Enough?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/06/13/hp-touchpad-struts-its-stuff-before-launch-but-is-it-enough/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 21:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve got a few minutes to spare, HP would like to explain how its TouchPad distinguishes itself from other tablets. A new series of videos touts the TouchPad&#8217;s key features, ahead of its launch on July 1 (starting at $499). They show off the TouchPad&#8217;s card-based multitasking that lets users run lots of apps at once, and the &#8220;Synergy&#8221; feature that combines multiple e-mail, contacts and calendar sources into a single view. They explain the &#8220;Just Type&#8221; feature, which lets users search the device and the web from the tablet&#8217;s home screen, and demonstrate how HP&#8217;s upcoming Pre 3 phone will be able to wirelessly transfer phone calls and websites to the tablet. Of course, what HP doesn&#8217;t show in these videos are the TouchPad&#8217;s inherent weaknesses: The hardware, while comparable to other current tablets in raw power, measures closer to Apple&#8217;s first-generation iPad than the thinner and lighter iPad 2, so HP doesn&#8217;t spend much time talking about it. And if you want to see what apps are available, you&#8217;ll just have to wait; although the TouchPad&#8217;s WebOS already offers roughly 6,000 smartphone apps, it&#8217;s not clear how many will be optimized for tablets at launch. Still, HP has a solid foundation in WebOS, and laying out exactly what makes the TouchPad unique is the best way to make tablet buyers think twice about an iPad or Android tablet. If this is how HP will market the TouchPad to mainstream consumers next month, it may actually have a chance. More on TIME.com: HP Unveils 10-inch &#8216;TouchPad&#8217; Tablet, New Smartphones Number One Plus: Can HP Tablets Take Down the iPad? How to Sell a Tablet: Apps and Price First, Tech Specs Second<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=86281&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Number One Plus: Can HP Tablets Take Down the iPad?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/05/23/number-one-plus-can-hps-tablet-take-down-the-ipad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 12:59:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[HP&#8217;s TouchPad tablet is due out this summer and, speaking to the press recently, HP&#8217;s Eric Cador said, &#8220;In the tablet world, we&#8217;re going to become better than number one. We call it number one plus.&#8221; That&#8217;s a direct shot at Apple&#8217;s iPad, though Cador didn&#8217;t specify a timeframe or explain how his company plans to take the top spot in the tablet race. If you think about it, though, HP is putting the building blocks in place to set up a tablet platform that looks an awful lot like what Apple&#8217;s done with the iPad. HP owns the software—WebOS—and controls the hardware. The company also has a big presence in both the consumer and corporate worlds, which theoretically gives it an edge. But HP will need a lot of pieces to fall into place and it&#8217;ll have to overcome Apple&#8217;s big head start—not to mention that Google- and BlackBerry-backed tablets will have a stronger presence in the marketplace by the time the TouchPad hits retail. HP will face the same chicken-or-the-egg challenge posed to any new tablet platform: How do you get people to buy your tablet if it doesn&#8217;t have a heaping helping of high-quality apps, and how do you get developers to make apps for your tablet if nobody&#8217;s buying it yet? You could price the hardware low enough to get people in the door, like Asus and Acer are doing with their Android tablets ($400 and $450, respectively) but early reports seem to indicate that HP&#8217;s TouchPad tablet will be priced in line with the iPad. So that leaves hardware design and software features. The hardware looks relatively standard compared to other tablets, so expect HP to highlight its WebOS software and features like the fact that you&#8217;ll be able to run WebOS on HP computers, and extras like the rumored music service that&#8217;ll apparently pre-download music it thinks you&#8217;ll like. The point is that, yes, HP tablets could eventually beat the iPad—as could any other tablets. The question is: How long would it take? (via<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=83577&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HP Tablet May Download Music It Thinks You&#8217;ll Like Automatically</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/04/18/hp-tablet-may-download-music-it-thinks-youll-like-automatically/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 18:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well this would be interesting. PreCentral.net is reporting that HP&#8217;s upcoming TouchPad tablet may not only have built in movie and music stores, but that the music store may let you synchronize your own music library to HP&#8217;s servers. That&#8217;s not all, though. The music store may also &#8220;leverage a &#8216;smart algorithm&#8217; to ensure that the music the user is most likely to listen to is cached locally on the device. This service will also allow TouchPad owners to stream music that they don&#8217;t yet own,&#8221; says PreCentral. So imagine either a monthly, all-you-can-eat music subscription service like Zune Pass, Napster or Rhapsody that transfers tracks it thinks you&#8217;ll like so you don&#8217;t have to download them yourself, or maybe an a la carte music store like iTunes that preemptively transfers snippets of song previews that, when purchased, unlock the full versions of each song. This same feature would apparently be available to newer HP smartphones down the line, too. More on TIME.com: HP Unveils 10-inch &#8216;TouchPad&#8217; Tablet, New Smartphones Two Minute Video: The HP TouchPad Tablet is Coming<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=77337&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HP TouchPad to BlackBerry PlayBook: Quit Copying Me!</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/03/02/hp-touchpad-to-blackberry-playbook-quit-copying-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nothing like stirring the pot between two tablet makers, eh? That&#8217;s just what Laptop did by calling the attention of HP and BlackBerry to the similarities between both companies&#8217; upcoming tablets. According to Laptop: &#8220;Both tablets render open programs as cards that you can easily swipe through for multitasking, and you can close apps using both OSes by swiping them off the screen. To be fair, though, RIM goes further with gestures in the PlayBook than HP does with its tablet.&#8221; HP got to comment first, saying: &#8220;It’s a fast innovation cycle and a fast imitation cycle in this market, so we just know that we have the creative engine here to continue to build on what we have, and we’ll keep innovating, we’ll keep honing and those guys hopefully will continue to see the value in it and keep following us by about a year.&#8221; By about a year? Ouch. BlackBerry, your rebuttal? &#8220;You know, cars over time end up looking a lot alike because you put them through a wind tunnel, and when you’re trying to come up with the best coefficient to drag ratio, there’s one optimized shape that gets the best wind resistance, right? Well, when you’re trying to optimize user experience that juggles multitasking, multiple apps open at once and on a small screen, you’re going to get people landing on similar kinds of designs.&#8221; The BlackBerry rep added that his company had &#8220;no intention and no preconceived notion&#8221; that the PlayBook tablet&#8217;s interface would resemble the one used by HP, saying, &#8220;In fact, I think QNX had that design lined up before we even started working with them.&#8221; QNX is the operating system powering the PlayBook—the company was acquired by RIM (BlackBerry) last year. But didn&#8217;t the HP TouchPad get announced and revealed long after the BlackBerry Playbook? Yes, yes it did. But the TouchPad&#8217;s interface is a version of Palm&#8217;s webOS software (Palm was acquired by HP last year) that debuted on the Palm Pre smartphone back in mid-2009. More on TIME.com: HP<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=68577&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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