Aug 15

webOS team becomes Gram, isn’t heavy on mission statements

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webOS team becomes Gram, isn't heavy on mission statements

HP’s webOS team has been keeping busy with its open source project, but it’s time for a new challenge in the form of Gram: a fresh HP-funded offshoot focused on “software, user experience, the cloud, engineering, and partnering.” We’re not quite sure where that list could lead, but webOS, Enyo and cloud services are all expected to play a role in future endeavors. Judging from the fancy flyer after the break, a lot of energy is going into brand-building right now, along with a dose of secrecy, but hopefully some more concrete details will happen along soon.

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webOS team becomes Gram, isn’t heavy on mission statements originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 15 Aug 2012 06:58:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Aug 09

Gartner reports Western Europe desktop shipments down, portable PCs up in Q2 2012

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Gartner reports Western Europe desktop shipments down, portable PCs up in Q2 2012

When it comes to technology and the end of a financial quarter, you can bet your wage there’ll be an analyst report or two letting you what’s what. And according to Gartner’s latest estimates for Western Europe, PCs didn’t fare too well in Q2 of this year, with a 2.4 percent decrease in shipments compared with the same period in 2011. Consignments of mobile PCs (read: not tablets) grew by 4 percent, while desktops floundered, dropping 12.8 percent. Of this, a minor growth of 0.4 percent was recorded in consumer PCs, while the professional market decreased by 5.3 percent. Among the big hitters, HP remained at the top of the pile despite losing some market share, and Acer remained in second position with a mild increase in the same. ASUS put in a healthy performance, moving the company up to bronze medal position, while Dell dropped off the podium to fourth. The vendor statistics for the whole region were echoed in France in Germany, but during the quarter Apple managed to break into the top five in the UK market. Meike Escherich, principal analyst at Gartner, attributes the overall performance to economic uncertainty in the region, as well as lackluster demand in the wait for Windows 8 machines. We don’t want to spoil all the fun, so a comprehensive breakdown of the numbers awaits you at the source link.

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Aug 08

HP expects to take $8 billion hit over its purchase of EDS

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HP takes $8 billion hitNormally shake ups in management and earnings outlooks don’t really grab our attention. But, buried in the PR for just such moves from HP today was a particularly intriguing tidbit of information. In Q3 the company expects to be hit for $8 billion in pre-tax assets (but not cash) as part of an “impairment of goodwill” charge related to the purchase of Electronic Data Systems. That’s in addition to a $1.5 billion charge it’ll be absorbing following the layoff of some 27,000 employees in May. While the company has actually raised its earnings outlook for the quarter, we’ll have to wait till August 22nd to find out just how much these two charges will affect the bottom line. For some more detail, check out the PR after the break.

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Aug 06

Unannounced HP tablet glimpsed in official picture (again), could be Slate 8

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HP’s Make it Matter site features a shot of a medical-type person using a mysterious device that’s the spitting image of one we saw in July. While the company’s made no secret of its plans for a Windows 8 tablet, it’s yet to confirm if this is the Slate 8 or some other unannounced flagship. Given the context, perhaps this is an enterprise offering designed for corporate customers, or it could just as easily be the fever-dream of a Madison Avenue art director. If it’s real, we’d expect a release around October 26th along with the rest of the Windows 8 cohort.

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Unannounced HP tablet glimpsed in official picture (again), could be Slate 8 originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 06 Aug 2012 05:45:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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