HP layoffs webOS group

HP to cut 275 staff webOS group, a step in the strategy to bring webOS operating system open source community.
 

 
HP said last year it had stopped producing devices running the Palm webOS development for phones and tablets, and then the company decided to move into a webOS software under license Apache 2.0 License. HP bought Palm in 2010.
 
HP said, with a small staff will help webOS soon turned into open source software, as well as maintaining the software as HP's commitment. The staff was cut from the group HP webOS will be arranged to consider other jobs in the firm.
 
January / 2012, HP said it will provide full source code for webOS open source community on May 9/2012 consist of core applications such as Mail, Calendar for the Linux kernel.
 
Earlier this month, HP launched the governance model for webOS. HP says that the new webOS Open a number of projects including: Envyo, JavaScript framework, WebKit / Isis, standard Linux kernel, and webOS System Manager.
 
Each project will have a project management committee. According to the developers blog webOS is the first time members of the reason this project will come from HP, then will transfer from the community who participate in development projects.

HP Slate 500 running Windows 7 reduced the price $ 499.95

HP Slate 500 tablet running Windows 7 is priced at 799 USD base price has been reduced down to $ 499.95, equivalent to 385 Euro, on the website B & H.

Compared to the cost Slate 2 699 USD (510 Euro), version Slate 500 rebate equipped with Atom Z540 processor with a slower rate (1.8 GHz), but there are two processor cores.
 
HP Slate 500 price $ 499.95 on B & H is equipped with 8.9 inch screen resolution is 1024 x 600 pixels, 2 GB RAM, 64 GB drive and static acceleration of decoding video content Full HD 1080p . In addition, the machine is equipped with Wi-Fi, Ethernet, Bluetooth, VGA webcam on the front, 3 megapixel camera on the back and SD card slot. Machine weighs only 700 gram weight.
 
HP Slate 500 built-in security features and Computrace TPM Pro is specifically designed to protect against data theft by allowing customers to delete the data folder or file remotely.
 
A nice addition is the 500 HP Slate Slate Dock Cradle comes with the tablet, the user provides two USB 2.0 ports and a HDMI output to the device can connect to a large HDTV screen more.
There has been no confirmation on whether or not capable of supporting Windows 8 on the Slate 500.

HP, Dell, Acer and Asus will "withdraw from the tablet market"

According to DigiTimes (Taiwan), the traditional PC manufacturers feel unable to compete in the tablet to tablet production will decrease in 2012.
Abstracted information from the component suppliers, DigiTimes says many companies such as HP, Dell, Acer and Asus realized they had no interest to participate in a market where the "players" like Apple, Amazon and Barnes & Noble holding too much content system should be able to "bury stamping" competition by lowering prices and products will be offset by trading books, music, applications ...
Fire Amazon Kindle is sold for $ 200 USD and Barnes & Noble will soon introduce Nook Simple Touch only 100 USD - the price that the hardware manufacturers simply can not be profitable to run under. Analysts also believe that in the long run, the two "online bookstore" but found no other hardware to customers so they used as tools to buy and consume content. Meanwhile, Apple accounted for 80% of the stock tablet diverse applications, for the small slice of the remaining firms.

Representatives of the Asus Eee Pad Transformer introduced in January 1 / 2011. Photo: AP.

This step does not seem surprised when HP TouchPad has completely failed to cease production, while RIM also have to accept losses PlayBook to sell for only 250 USD in a number of retail dealers targeted increase sales. Although market participants are tablet, president of Acer JT Wang in August also appreciate the ultra-lightweight laptop Ultrabook and predicting the dying of the fever tablets, that are excited about this product will cool down and then the client will "love" laptop back.
However, Acer said it would participate in many product areas outside the PC Asus also has plans to release the tablet running quad-core chip next year. Therefore, the Guardian (UK) said the manufacturer did not withdraw completely from this market that they will only stop the introduction of Android tablet to wait the arrival of Windows 8.