Tag: hp
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WebOS Being Open Sourced
There have been many a rumour about the fate of HP’s WebOS over the last few months; but those rumours can be put to rest, as HP has decided that the operating system that features on devices such as the Pre, Pixi and TouchPad will be contributed to the open source community. HP say that…
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More $99 HP TouchPads On The Way
Wow, if the events of earlier this year are anything to go by, then I’d say that these are going to sale pretty quickly. HP has just confirmed that an undisclosed amount of both the 16GB and 32GB TouchPad tablet devices are going to be made available on HP’s official eBay store. If you read…
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Samsung Shutting the Lid on Netbooks for Good in 2012?
Samsung Netbooks look to be on the way out in 2012, following declining interest after 4 years in service. The Netbook came about as a smaller, lightweight and cost effective alternative to the Notebook in 2007. From a number of manufacturers with sizes ranging from 5” up to 12” and supporting operating systems for Linux…
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How to Run Android Apps on Your Windows PC – With BlueStacks
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You can now run your favourite Android apps on your Windows desktop thanks to new software called BlueStacks, but why would you want to do that? Because with over 500,000 Android apps there’s a world of cool, useful and fun apps just waiting to be used! BlueStacks App Player is an amazing Windows program that…
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HP unleashes Envy 15 and 17 Laptops with Beats Audio tech
For those who love the Macbook Pro design but not the price
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Development weekly – Dolby Mobile activation app for Android, Free your Android Development site, plus HP’s GPL violation
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Here at the Gadget Helpline we like to keep you up to date with the latest developments in the mobile world, bringing you the latest info on tweaks hacks and mods for your mobiles and tablets alike. This week we are going to start with a little application that has been developed to run on…
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HP Slate 2: New Microsoft Windows 7 tablet update unveiled
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Hewlett Packard’s last tablet standing – the Windows 7-based Slate 500 – has today got a reboot. The Slate 2 has been unveiled, resembling its older sibling but coming with a few tweaks and a big difference on price. From appearances alone, the Slate 2 could be mistaken for the preceding 500 model – which…
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HP Issue Statement Denying Planned Shut Down Of WebOS
HP has called last week’s rumours that they will be shutting down their WebOS division as completely “unfounded”. Jumping to the defense of the beleaguered WebOS, Todd Bradley, a former chief exec at Palm and the current VP of HP has spoken to Bloomberg to quash the rumours, which originated from the Guardian. “We’re continuing…
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HP’s WebOS To Be Shut Down By November
HP announced in statement on Thursday that it would continue to make PC’s, but the fate of the WebOS division has, according to contrary reports from the Guardian, been all but sealed with an expected shut down in November. According to the statement on Thursday the company stated that the future of the tablet operating…
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HP launching an investigation into TouchPads shipped with Android
You may remember during the HP TouchPad sale frenzy a few TouchPad devices turned up online running Android out of the box – to the bemusement of the owner as well as others. Well, the latest news suggests that HP are to conduct an internal investigation to find out how exactly a few of these…
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TouchPad Android port nears completion
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The lucky owners of the HP TouchPad who snapped one up for less than £100 are soon going to be in for a treat, as the Cyanogen Mod team have just posted a video showing the TouchPad now has hardware acceleration, allowing 3D games to run as smoothly as they would on a native Android…
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Samsung mobile OS ‘Bada’ still go says Wall Street Journal
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Two years ago, Samsung offered us an ‘Invitation to Adventure’ setting sail on its own open source mobile operating software which would be known as Bada. We sadly didn’t hear very much more than that and in a tidal wave of Android-based and Apple iOS-based gadgets we got washed up in the popular smartphone trends…