By Greg Mills
With the implosion of HP and perhaps the beginning of the end of that storied company and the resignation of Steve Jobs, tech writers have had their hands full lately. There are other interesting developments in the news that ought to be mentioned.
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The last year has seen the launch, crash and burn of the supposed iPad killers cheerfully announced at recent trade shows. There were, by some counts, as many as 100 touchscreen iPad wannabe contenders presented in one show alone. Prototypes and actual production units are not the same thing. Mock-ups are not that hard to produce and a lot of the concept tablets were just glass and painted Bondo.
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The Great HP Train Wreck, Mikey likes it, Michel Dell that is. The immediate stock market reaction to the HP implosion was that HP stock went down 20% and Dell went up 7%. The gut reaction of the market to the HP reorganization was sort of as if HP had done the seppuku ceremony where the ancient Japanese publicly cut their own belly open with a sharp knife. A gory, painful and dramatic way to die, indeed, but it sure makes a statement. The age of the PC is over, long live iPad, to paraphrase Steve Jobs.
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By Greg Mills
As news of the cancelation of the HP TouchPad and Web OS smartphones hit the street, speculation abounds as the future for both HP as a company and its established business units. Almost as an afterthought the news came out that HP was also throwing in the towel on its PC manufacturing business.
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I was somewhat taken back by the news that HP has pulled the plug on the TouchPad, so quickly. That the Palm OS smartphones and computer business were also cut by HP means the shake out of the mobile computing market is beginning in ernest. A massive shift to tablets is underway and when I say tablet, you can read that iPad.
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By Greg Mills
HP is getting out of the tablet business, canning its mobile computing business including cellular handsets and is spinning of the HP computer business. All of this seems dramatic, but the Apple surge in taking over the mobile computing market is shaking even seasoned competitors.
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HP bought Palm for it’s technology a while back and has funded the work on continuing to develop the Palm webOS smartphone platform. HP hopes to use the Palm webOS in its upcoming mobile devices.
The history of Palm is one of missed opportunities and squandered innovation. At one time PDA and cellphones hadn’t yet merged and Palm had a great PDA product set.
Read MoreCNET News.com reports that Hewlett-Packard will unveil its long-awaited HP-branded iPod on Friday, along with its first televisions, an entertainment hub and several new printers and cameras. The announcements will take place at a Miami press event headed by HP CEO Carly Fiorina.
Read MoreHewlett-Packard is displaying recently announced printers at this week’s Mac Design Conference. Among them are the HP Designjet 130nr with up to 24 inch roll-feed, dye-based fade-resistant inks that last over 70 years with no fading. Also on display are HP’s new Photosmart 7960 8-ink photo quality printer and its new Photosmart R707 5.1 megapixel digital camera.
Read MoreHP today announced a broad initiative to expand digital color imaging and printing to all of its customers in the home and office. In order to reach customers in various stages of digital color adoption, HP plans to work with industry leaders such as Adobe, Apple, Microsoft and Quark to deliver the best color experience; deliver robust, affordable color printing products; and continue to elevate and improve print quality.
Read MoreSeveral MacMinute readers pointed out that Hewlett-Packard will apparently begin shipping computers with iTunes pre-installed by the end of March, according to meta data found in the source code of the HP Music Web site. “A set of online pages to direct consumers to the iTunes download and experience as a first phase in launching the HP iPod and iTunes suite of products and services,” reads the description.
Read MoreHP today announced plans to revamp its digital camera line with eight new models featuring “revolutionary consumer industrial design and exclusive HP technology to improve image processing and ease of use for mainstream consumers.” The first camera in the new HP Photosmart family is the 5.1 megapixel R707, which features brushed stainless steel construction and incorporates HP Real Life technologies, a series of “technical advancements that make it virtually impossible to take a bad picture.” The camera sports 24x total zoom, 32MB of internal storage and PictBr
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