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This week HP announced a menu of public and private cloud services with a dash of consulting and training too. For a company that has changed CEOs twice in two years, perhaps it was a step toward stability (even if it was fulfilling the fired CEO's vision).
Read my full post on my techTarget View from Above blog.
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The news came at us fast and furiously this year and it left us shaking our collective head--whether it was the HP TouchPad, Google buying Motorla Mobility or Adobe throwing in the towel on Flash. I review some of the top stories of the year.
Read my full list and commentary on the Ness SPL Blog.
When HP open sourced webOS on Friday, it left it badly wounded without killing it altogether. And the prognosis for recovery was not good. Bruce Springsteen fans, I hope you recognize the Jungle Land reference in the title.
Read my full commentary on my TechTarget View from Above blog.
HP got the dubious honor or being the number two tablet seller in the US for the first three quarters this year. Unfortunately it achieved this by dumping their product for pennies on the dollar.
Read my full commentary on the TechTarget View from Above blog.
HP's decision to axe the TouchPad and webOS in such a public manner made no sense, and with new plans to spin off the PC division announced this week, killing its mobile component makes even less sense.
Read my full commentary on my TechTarget View from Above blog.
The changes this month from some of the biggest brands in technology have shaken the very foundation of the technology business and it's hard to know what's going to happen as a result.
See my full commentary on the Ness SPL Blog.
HP showed just how difficult it can be to place reasonable bets as a mobile developer, but it also might have pushed the idea of a more standardized approach like HTML5 to guard against the vagaries of a changing market.
Read my full commentary on my TechTarget View from Above blog.
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HP is planning to license WebOS making it available to rival manufacturers. While this could expand the WebOS developer pool, it could also cannibalize HP hardware sales leaving HP in a difficult position.
Read my full commentary on my TechTarget View from Above blog.
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With his announcement last week that webOS would be appearing on 100M devices including PCs, printers, phones and tablets; HP CEO Leo Apotheker threw down the OS gauntlet and let it be known his company is going it alone.
Read my full post on my TechTarget View from Above Blog.
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New CEO Leo Apotheker wants to move HP to the cloud, but it will take more than a good speech to get them there. It will take a serious commitment to R&D, something his predecessors were unwilling to do.
Read my full post on my TechTarget View from Above Blog.
