by Ron Miller

HP & Microsoft put their heads together to fight AWS market dominance

HP announced it was replacing its in-house Infrastructure as a Service offering with Microsoft Azure. In spite of HP's messy cloud strategy, this is a reasonable approach for both companies to fight Amazon Web Service's market dominance. http://bit.ly/1HAhSup

HP Chromebook 11: Pretty, cheap, and incredibly frustrating

Sure, the HP Chromebook 11 is attractive, especially for that $279 price tag. In many ways it resembles the old white MacBooks, but when you get beyond the good looks, this machine is slow and frustrating, and you're much better off with the dowdy $249 Samsung.  http://bit.ly/1fVlvve

Photo Credit: Google

Tablets are taking a bite out of the PC market

Last quarter, HP, the largest PC maker in the world sold 15m PCs. Apple sold 23m iPads. The age of tablets is upon us, people and as the tablet ascends, we will see more of them and the PC will begin to play a lesser (although still significant) computing role.

Read my full post on my TechTarget View from Above blog.

Photo Credit: CanStockPhoto

HP's Tablet Delusions

When an HP executive stated in an interview last week that he believed the next HP tablet could take on the iPad, my first thought was the guy is delusional -- or perhaps he doesn't choose to remember the ill-fated TouchPad, the last tablet entry from HP that lasted a whole 45 days on the market.

Read my full commentary on my TechTarget View from Above blog.

HP Takes Plunge into Cloud Services

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.

Photo by Official U.S. Navy Imagery on Flickr. Used under Creative Commons Share Alike License.

 

The Top Tech Stories of 2011 for Developers and IT Pros

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.

HP Leaves webOS Wounded, Not Even Dead

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 Tablet Number 2 with a Bullet (to the head)

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 Decision to Dump webOS Still Makes No Sense

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.

August 2011: The Month that Rocked Technology

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.