Tag Archives: Mark Hurd

While You Were Off the Grid

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For those of you returning this week from vacation, you are walking in mid-drama to a lot of $h*# that hit the fan last week in the tech world.  The big news this week will surely be follow up stories to the two big stories that broke last week: first, Google announced it’s buying Motorola Mobility and second, Hewlett Packard appears to be repositioning itself to be a software company instead of a hardware company. READ MORE »

HP Halts TouchPad, WebOS; Will Spin Off PC Business

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Yesterday, we reported on Hewlett-Packard’s miserable TouchPad sales, and how retailers are particularly unhappy with the tablets and wished HP to take them back. Well, it looks like they got their wish, and then some. HP has decided not only to take back and discontinue production of its TouchPads, but in a stunning move, the company has also decided to discontinue all WebOS operations in general. This means that the company will cease production on tablets, phones, and all devices that run WebOS. READ MORE »