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Do you remember Mark Hurd? The former HP CEO left the company in disgrace after he was caught fudging expense reports to pay for dates with a woman who was working for HP as a marketing contractor. Hurd fled to a position as co-president of Oracle, headed by his friend [...]

Numbers have just emerged for Barnes and Noble, and the store’s results are showing what we’d all kind of figured would happen: everyone loves ebooks, and loves them to the deep, deep detriment of their print matter equivalent. Just how deep is the love for ebooks? The numbers are pretty [...]

Steve Jobs stepped down from the CEO spot last week at Apple, leaving his right-hand man and former COO Tim Cook in the big chair at Apple. A lot of folks have been speculating on how Cook will do running Apple, but he’s already doing one thing as well as [...]

Back in March, we brought you the launch story of Zite, an iPad magazine that checked your Google Reader and Twitter feeds to figure out just what it was you wanted to read, and then delivered it to your iPad as best the news of the day allowed. And apparently, [...]

The TouchPad is an amazing phenomenon for HP and the company should very well reconsider whether dropping the webOS hardware business was a good idea or not. HP has confirmed earlier that it will continue to update the TouchPad to offer additional “functionality” and now we hear that, despite what [...]

Mozilla is about to change everything again, no matter how cliché that sounds, when it comes to mobile web browsing, at least on certain tablets. Today we’re looking at the first screenshots of a Firefox version made specifically for Android Honeycomb tablets.

We saw HP offer a brief update in terms of TouchPad availability just yesterday and at the time it looked as if we may be seeing some more $99 tablets within a few days time. And well, HP has just recently sent out an email and came back with some [...]

Seems like it’s a buyer’s market on most everything these days. Houses, cars, electronics, whatever you want; if you’ve got the cash, someone’s got a deal for you. And the folks out at Sharp are looking to take the low road in as rapid a fashion as possible with their [...]

Apparently, when you’ve got a product in stores that flies off the shelves, your first instinct as a business person is to do it again. Not surprising, but I can’t speak to personal experience on that one as I’ve never had a product in stores that flew off shelves. But [...]

HP’s announcement that it plans to focus on enterprise services had people wondering what exactly will happen to its PC manufacturing unit, which has been its main source of revenue until recently. Aside from its plans to drop support for webOS, HP says the company prefers to spin off the [...]