Wow. The day after HP announces they’re discontinuing all their webOS devices, and they’ve already issued a liquidation order. Best Buy, Future Shop, The Source, London Drugs, and Staples will be selling the 16GB TouchPad for $100, and the 32GB version for $150 starting tomorrow. Well, in Canada at least. No word on when...
One day after Hewlett-Packard announced that it will be suspending the production of webOS-based phones and tablets, news has surfaced that members the webOS team itself had misgivings about the TouchPad hardware on which it was running. The promising mobile operating system is said to have run twice as fast when loaded onto Apple’s...
It’s hard to believe that Google’s Street View has been in use for over four years. What’s more amazing, perhaps, given the rate at which they have canvassed the world’s streets and alleyways, that there is anywhere left unmapped. But while their teams have successfully traced the surfaces of most large cities and a...
The city of Menlo Park just posted some new architectural plans of Facebook’s proposed 9,000-employee campus there. Most of the campus is just going to be a redesign of an old office park previously occupied by Sun Microsystems. Photos and spec drawings of that part of the campus have already been seen. But the...
The city of Menlo Park just posted some new architectural plans of Facebook’s proposed 9,000-employee campus there. Most of the campus is just going to be a redesign of an old office park previously occupied by Sun Microsystems. Photos and spec drawings of that part of the campus have already been seen. But the...
Duke Energy is turning to cellular networks as the backbone for its smart grid. The utility detailed the network plan in a white paper released earlier this month, and revealed one of the most aggressive uses of cellular networks by the utility industry in the U.S. In the white paper, Duke Energy’s Manager of...
Snapsort, until today known a popular camera recommendation site, has raised $500K from undisclosed investors to expand its algorithmic product recommendation technology to other verticals, starting with cars at Carsort.com and phones at Geekaphone.com. Snapsort co-founder Christopher Reid compares Snapsort’s technology to Factual and Metaweb, but tells me that its data is much cleaner than...
See Also: HP To Employees: “We’re Not Walking Away From WebOS” The Market Has Spoken On HP’s Grand New Plan Crappy Products That Lasted Longer Than The HP TouchPad Once again, Microsoft is sounding the clarion call for the PC. Last week, the company’s PR head Frank Shaw rebutted IBM’s Mark Dean, who said...
Yesterday, we learned more about the syntax of macros being developed for Umbraco version 5, codenamed Jupiter. Yes, there’s a new round of changes; no, not every Umbraco developer will welcome that fact yet again. But the result continues to be evolutionary, and on the right path. In a new blog post, Umbraco contributor...
If HP does indeed sell off its PC business, it might have to nail its foray into cloud computing to avoid becoming a punchline decades down the road. Without that extra $30-million-plus in revenue, and $10 billion lighter in the wallet after buying Autonomy, something has to pick up the slack. Buying Autonomy gives...