HP TouchPad

Instead of spending hundreds of millions of dollars on marketing, one analyst believes that Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) should give away its new tablet. "One hundred million to two hundred million dollars [worth of these] devices should be given away for free," Trip Chowdhry, the Managing Director of...

Hewlett-Packard is planning to combine its PC and printer businesses. Is this a smart move or a cheap way to delay the company's demise? “Instead of innovating, HP (NYSE: HPQ) is masking the incompetency of the PC business by merging it with the stronger printer business,” Trip Chowdhry, the...

Will the Kindle Fire be the first tablet since the HP TouchPad to take a loss on every unit sold? Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster seems to think so, telling AllThingsD that Amazon is “likely losing about $50 per Kindle Fire.” He says this without providing any data to support this assumption....

It's a twist on that old NBC sitcoms slogan: if you haven't used it, it's new to you! GameStop (NYSE: GME), the world's largest retailer of video games new and used, is getting ready to sell consumers a specially-branded tablet that will neither be new nor special. According to GamesIndustry.biz...

Now if only we could confirm whether or not the internal e-mails are real. Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ), the company that loves computer manufacturing so much that it has decided to run away from it, is apparently going to split webOS into two divisions – one for software and one for hardware. If...

At least, it could be the future for Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ), which is slated to back away from computer manufacturing. Despite this major, Earth-shattering decision, one HP exec thinks that the company could bring back the TouchPad. In an interview with Reuters (via Business Insider), Todd...

Or were buyers simply excited to get a $500 device for 80% off? Consumers love a good sale. Between the weekly ads in the paper, the endless number of coupon options online or off, the onslaught of commercials, and the growth of daily deal sites, you would think that our desire to save would...

Over the weekend, HP began sending out notices to retailers in the U.S. and Canada to lower the price of its now discontinued TouchPad tablet computer to $99 for the 16 GB model and $149 for the 32 GB model, around a $350 saving. As you'd expect, this was met well with consumers and the tablet...

If you can't beat ‘em, join ‘em. And when you do, make sure you take note of their website so that you can follow up with a similar design. Today, Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) made it official: the company will enter the tablet market this summer with the HP TouchPad. While it might sound like a...