Video: HP demoes Notebook and Netbook lines for Holiday Season

HP showed off some of its refreshed notebooks and netbooks for the upcoming holiday season. We're seeing better sound by way of Beats Audio across the board, faster processors and more interesteting finishes and designs minus a lot of the crapware that's known to slow systems down. Also included in some of the HP Pavilion notebooks is Adobe's Premiere and Photoshop Elements, adding great value to multimedia-focused creative users.

HP TouchPad Fire Sale unprecedented event in consumer electronics

Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Boston, MA: Good luck to anyone who wants to buy an HP TouchPad, they're hard to find just over a month after they were launched. The reason for this high demand is a staggerging price drop coming in the wake of HP's announcement that it will discontinue support for webOS and the TouchPad.

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Editorial: HP and the post PC World

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

The news today that HP was cutting off webOS and possibly shifting away entirely from the PC market was monumental for a number of reasons. Ending its pursuit of the smartphone and tablet market a mere month after it launched the TouchPad, shows that HP is very aware of where it stands in this immensely competitive space. Putting the brakes on its PC business, where it has long loomed as a giant gives us an insight of how it sees the industry and where it is going. 

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Breaking News: HP dumps webOS, looks to spin off PC business

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

This is turning out to be one of the most eventful weeks for industry-changing tech news. HP just announced it is discontinuing operations of its webOS devices namely the recently released HP TouchPad and any of their Pre and Veer smartphones. This sudden news comes just 16 months after HP purchased struggling Palm and dovetailed operations of the two and turning Palm, and its team, into HP's mobile devices division.

The Palm Pre 2 and the TouchPad Tablet received tepid response in the market. When we spoke to them in June, HP was hoping to integrate webOS into all its consumer devices such as printers and PCs.

What is more suprising is HP's announcement that it is looking to spin off its PC business which may open it up to partnerships or even acquisition. Similar to changes that IBM went through some time ago, HP is looking to focus on business services and products.

Hit jump to get the lowdown from HP's press release.

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