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Todd Bradley, the executive vice president for Hewlett-Packard’s Personal Systems Group, sat down with CNBC for a CES interview last week. During this interview, Bradley confirmed that webOS will be HP’s tablet solution and singled out the mobile operating system as the strategic reason that HP bought Palm last summer. HP has scheduled a press…
Canadian music junkies will be pleased to read of this great news from the folks at Slacker Radio. Via CES the other day, Slacker has announced the expansion of their unlimited basic radio service to all Canadian listeners. Right on! Previously, Slacker was offered as a 30-day trial only. When the trial was over, Canucks…
The beginning of a new year means a lot of things: shameful recollections of your New Year’s Eve party, resolutions that never really panned out in the last year, and, of course, the largest consumer electronics show of the year. With CES Las Vegas 2011 kicking off in just a few short days, the IntoMobile…
As hinted by a sneak peek at the box in the fall, Rogers now has the Palm Pre 2 available for $100 on a three-year contract. The Pre 2 is the first smartphone HP and Palm have made together, but unfortunately it’s not quite that much of an upgrade from the Pre Plus. However, we…
At the Wall Street Journal’s D: Dive Into Mobile conference, Jon Rubinstein took the stage to talk about the past and future of Palm’s webOS. When asked about Palm’s focus prior to being acquired by HP, Rubinstein says that a tablet really wasn’t in the works and that the company’s main focus was on phones.…
The pieces for the upcoming Palm Pre 2 are coming into focus. We’ve seen signs that it will have some refined hardware and leaked documents indicate it could also be coming to Verizon in the not-too-distant future. The good folks over at Engadget have obtained a screen shot from Verizon’s internal training portal which show…
We knew that it would take some time before Hewlett-Packard showed us some new Palm webOS products and we may have just seen the update to the ill-fated Palm Pre. The SFR website has some details on what it claims to be the Palm Pre 2 and it looks to be a good, but not…
In today’s world of everyone suing everyone else, sometimes you just have to bit your lip and pay your dues. That’s exactly what Microsoft is doing by licensing 74 patents from Acacia Research and Access, the latter being the company that purchased Palm’s pre-webOS operating system in 2005. Some of the patents licensed were used…
We all know that a tablet from HP is coming early next year with the Palm webOS platform but we may have finally received confirmation that it will be called the “PalmPad.” During a conference call with analysts, HP vice president Todd Bradley said the “webOS-powered PalmPad” will launch in early 2011. Sure, he could…
After purchasing Palm in July, HP is reportedly working on new webOS hardware – to go along with the new webOS 2.0 screenshots that we see here. Earlier this summer, we saw a hint of the Palm Pre Plus 2 on a leaked Verizon roadmap and caught a glimpse of webOS 2.0 devices in the…