Hewlett-Packard to Launch Smartphone in 2011

by | Oct 6, 2010 | Towing

Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) will enter the smartphone market in early 2011 using the webOS software it acquired as part of its $1.2 billion purchase of Palm.

“You will see us coming early next year with new phones,” Senior Vice President Eric Cador said, according to Reuters.

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Candor described the webOS software as “fundamental” to the purchase of Palm, a pioneer in hand-held devices.

HP,…

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Hewlett-Packard to Launch Smartphone in 2011 originally appeared on DailyFinance on Wed, 06 Oct 2010 07:27:00.

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HTC Profit Almost Doubles on Smartphone Sales

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Phone manufacturer HTC Corp. (HTCXF) almost doubled quarterly profited as demand for smartphones surged.

Third-quarter profit jumped to NT$11.1 billion ($360 million) from NT$5.7 billion a year earlier, Bloomberg News reported. The Taiwanese company easily beat the NT$9.2 billion forecast by analysts surveyed by Bloomberg.

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Sales more than doubled from the third quarter of 2009, as…

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Taking on the iPad: Microsoft Tablets Coming Soon

by | Oct 5, 2010 | Towing

Microsoft says the first tablets equipped with Windows 7 will hit stores this year. The so-called “slate” computing devices, launched in partnership with hardware companies such as Hewlett-Packard, will go on sale during this y…