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HP Slate 7 on Track for April Launch

After Sony, HP also revealed the information that revealed the launch date of the company’s budget tablet has been delayed to June from the original April was incorrect. It was just a few days ago...

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HP Slate 7 Now Available in the US

The Slate 7, HP’s offering in the budget tablet segment, is now ready to be picked up for a comfortable $170. The tablet is all about mediocrity, which matches the selling price rather well, though...

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Back to School Tablet Buying Guide

It is that time of the year again when parents and students buy their supplies for the upcoming school year. With tablets being in vogue, these no doubt have superseded laptop and notebook devices as...

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Digital Textbooks a Major Focus at #CONTEC13

Today’s CONTEC event, held in conjunction with the Frankfurt Book Fair, is all about innovation. The Startup Showcase showed us what is possible, while the metadata presentation showed us exactly what...

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Mountrath Community College Describes Its eLearning Program Based on HP Elite...

With educational institutes around the world fast adopting digital means to ensure better education among students, at least one school, the Mountrath Community College in Laois, Ireland begs to...

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HP Launches 4 New Android Tablets in the Budget to Mid-Range

HP is quietly building up its tablet strength that has been recently reinforced with the launch of 4 new models. After having launched the rudimentary Slate that failed to make much of a mark, the...

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HP Launches Windows 8.1 Based Educational Hub Titled ‘The Buzz’

Here is some good news for those who might have been facing trouble getting started with Windows 8. HP has come up with an educational hub christened ‘The Buzz’ that is aimed at deciphering the...

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HP Announces New Slate 6 & Slate 7 ‘Voice Tablets’

HP has taken the plunge in the rapidly evolving phablet segment with two new Android devices – Slate 6 and Slate 7. Both the devices will offer calling facility which means these can be used as a...

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HP announces they will stop making cheap tablets

HP has announced that they are going to stop making super cheap tablets because sales have slowed to a crawl and there is too much competition at the bottom of the barrel. Instead, the company will...

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HP Announces IonTouch Displays powered by E Ink

HP has just announced a new piece of technology called IonTouch that utilizes E Ink. They will be used on all sorts of products from visitor badges to embedded displays for printers and fax machines....

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HP releases webOS 3.0.5 update for TouchPad

The HP TouchPad came, did not quite win the game and then went off. However, it has not been as simple as it might suggest as the WebOS tablet had made it to the top of the popularity charts even if...

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HP TouchPad gets Android ICS via CyanogenMod 9 Alpha 0

CyanogenMod 9 has come out with the Alpha 0 build of Android Ice Cream Sandwich for the TouchPad that seems to be hitting headlines more headline post its death than when it was alive. A lot of things...

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Good e-Reader Week In Review: Tablet News

Reflecting on the happenings in the tablet field this past week, what comes to the fore is that there has been no major tablet launches during the period though the usual doses of rumors and...

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Time Inc. Will Stop Publishing to the HP TouchPad March 10th

HP has tied up with Time Inc to share its content on the HP TouchPad hoping users of the tablet will have something worthwhile to do with the device. What followed later had taken everyone by surprise...

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Lenovo Favors Selling Tablets Online over Netbooks

Online availability of Lenovo netbooks is slowly being withdrawn. Those who wish to purchase Lenovo netbooks would not find them on the official online store in the near future. As it is, the present...

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HP Will Include More webOS Parts to ‘webOS Community Edition’

HP had already stated their intentions of making the WebOS platform an open source project. Towards that, the company has announced they will now be releasing more parts of the webOS 3.0.5 for...

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Rumor: HP Slate 8 in the Making

Hewlett Packard’s effort in the tablet world is mostly known for a certain WebOS debacle that etched a place in computing history. So while the absence of the HP TouchPad signifies one tablet less for...

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HP Confirms Their Upcoming Slate 8 Windows Tablet

Top brass at HP have officially confirmed one of their upcoming tablet computers will be based on Microsoft’s newest operating system, Windows 8. This should put to rest a long standing rumor that the...

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HP Will Not Make a Windows RT Tablet

In the beginning of June, Microsoft surprised the world by launching its Surface line of tablet devices. However, Microsoft’s move has also taken its hardware partners by surprise, with some...

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Dell Eager to Launch Windows RT Tablet

Dell is eager to make it to the exclusive group of six companies that Microsoft will permit to build the first round of tablets running the Windows RT operating system. For this, Dell is eyeing the...

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Toshiba Ditches Windows RT Tablet Plans

Toshiba has stated that it is putting its Windows RT based tablet plans on hold, making it the second company after HP to throw in the towel. Toshiba has attributed the cancellation to the delay in...

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Hp Is Forming a New Division and Getting Back into the Tablet Business

The TouchPad fiasco is still fresh in everybody’s mind, though HP does not seem to be the least bit bothered. The company is very keen to get back to the consumer tablet segment and has formed a new...

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HP Announces a New Enterprise Tablet

This shouldn’t come as a surprise since HP’s intention to make a tablet for the enterprise segment is already well known. The latest revelation to this effect comes in a recently released PR. What is...

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Top Tablet PC News — October 25, 2012

iPad 3 exchange scheme launched by SF Apple store, refurbished iPad 3 models now selling for $379 While we thought iPad Mini would be the center of everyone’s attention at the just concluded Apple...

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Rumor: HP Woking on an Tegra 4 Based Android Tablet

Hewlett Packard is back in the tablet race and is piggybacking Android this time for a reported high end tablet offering. As per the latest rumors on this, HP is said to be working on a tablet that...

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HP Launches $169 Slate 7 at the MWC

The Slate 7 marks HP’s second coming at the mainstream tablet segment. Running Android 4.1 Jelly Bean (almost the stock Android version), the tablet has been priced incredibly low at just $169. HP is...

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HP and Mass-Market Print-On-Demand

The early predictions for almost every facet of digital publishing have proven to be as beneficial as once believed, especially in the areas of digital textbooks, widespread access to self-publishing...

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Acer, Asus Expecting Strong Demand for Tablet PCs

Taiwanese manufacturers Asus and Acer are gearing up for a higher demand of Android tablet devices this year. Both have expressed confidence in being able to ship no less than 10 million of these in...

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Apple Cutting iPad Mini Shipments in Q2 2013

Apple is reported to have set in motion plans to cut production of its iPad Mini in the second quarter this year, a move which industry experts believe could be a way to herald in the new gen iPad...

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HP Slate 7 Shipment Pushed Back to June

HP had earlier gone to town trumpeting its low cost Android tablet the Slate 7 will be launched in April. However, that does seem to the case anymore as the shipping date has now been pushed back to...

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HP TouchPad Shipping Before Oct 31

Ever since reports surfaced about HP going in for one last production run of its TouchPad tablet PC, the one question that began to haunt everyone is who are those fortunate few that will be offered...

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HP TouchPad goes on sale in the UK

The HP TouchPad story has been just amazing so far. When the WebOS tablet was first launched,  there weren’t many takers of the same. HP dropped the price down to $99 and the TouchPad suddenly become...

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HP to Future Endeavor 525 webOS Employees

HP has been restructuring the company in lieu of spinning off its entire PC division and suspending its tablet activities. Its sole tablet in the market is the HP TouchPad which saw hundreds of...

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Hp TouchPads on offer for its employees, mad rush continues

Employees of HP thronged the company site to pick up the super cheap TouchPad that the company had promised for them and lived up to its promise by keeping to schedule with its release today. Such was...

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Dead HP TouchPad Go Shows up at FCC

There has been a lot of tablet PCs that have been released after the first gen iPad made its grand debut more than a year ago. There has been some disappointment, too, of perhaps equally grand scale...

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For HP Canada, the TouchPad Saga Comes to an End Forever

Consumers will always go mad for a quality product that is priced super cheap. So when HP decided to bring down the price of its TouchPad tablet PC to just $99, from the $499 that it started out with,...

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Android for TouchPad Released, in Alpha Stage Now

HP TouchPad should ideally be running the Android operating system. Unfortunately, that is still some way off and the best that we can have at the moment is what CyanogenMod has come out with—an...

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HP and Dell to Launch Windows 8 Tablets

HP and Dell have confirmed that they will be releasing Windows 8 based tablet computers in the 3rd quarter of 2012. These two companies are moving in that direction because of the fierce competition...

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Taiwanese Manufacturer Trims Workforce Following Dismal TouchPad and PlayBook...

The HP TouchPad may have lived an extremely short life span, but it has had the most dramatic moments otherwise unseen with any other tablet device. Also, while HP pulled the plug on the tablet, those...

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HP Slate 2 launched

While the HP Slate tablet device may have missed out on the popularity that its Android running stablemate — the TouchPad has garnered in its extremely short life span, that the tablet continues to...

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HP to Decide the Fate of webOS in Two Weeks

While HP might have been able to wash its hands clean with the TouchPad tablet PCs, it still has another aspect of its botched attempt at the tablet segment so far to take care of; the WebOS platform...

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HP TouchPad Go being Auctioned off on eBay

An auction of a rare nature is being conducted through eBay. Rare because the item coming under the hammer is a 32 GB, 3G capable TouchPad Go from HP. The item is coming up from China and appears to...

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HP TouchPads to Be Used by UK Prosecutors to Conduct Court Proceedings

In a surprising development in technology, attorneys in the UK courts have been provided with HP TouchPads for maintaining digital copies of their documents pertaining to their ongoing cases. Lawyers...

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Android 4.0 Being Readied to Run on the HP TouchPad

Developers who are working on a modified version of Google Android 2.3 to allow it to run on the HP TouchPad tablet have made another early breakthrough. A version of Android 4.0 has been modified by...

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Samsung shows off Flexible Transparent Tablet Concept

Not too long ago, we often would come across images of an e-reader or a tablet device that could bend to some extent. Prominent among them were Liquavista though none of them ever made it to the...

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WebOS is officially an Open Source Project

That HP has been mulling over how to deal with the WebOS platform has been all too well known. However, the way things have worked out in this field is perhaps the least expected. The WebOS can be...

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Week in Review for Tablet News

The past week has been a busy one with lots of tablet news coming our way. The diversity in the tablet affairs that we got to witness in the past week has been fascinating. While we’ve seen one...

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B&N takes delivery of OEM shipments for one million Nook Tablets

According to a ballpark figure from sources at upstream suppliers, Barnes & Noble so far should have taken delivery of a huge number of Nook Tablet PCs from OEM production partners. The estimate...

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A webOS Powered TouchPad Successor Might be a Reality in 2013

There is a chance that HP might get back to webOS to begin production of new tablets in year 2013, utilizing the new open-sourced stage for superior mobile devices. After HP went public with its move...

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HP First Tried to Sell WebOS and Palm Assets for $1.2 billion, Before Making...

HP’s plans of making its WebOS as open source has not been as spontaneous as it might seem, new details on this reveal. This since the real plans of HP appear to be selling off its failed venture...

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