HP’s TouchPad running WebOS, the newest competitor in the tablet wars has finally arrived. It’s Half an inch thick and wrapped in high-gloss plastic. In terms of features, the TouchPad ($499 for 16GB) looks pretty strong, sporting a dual-core processor, Flash support and an interface that’s elegant and easy to use. The HP TouchPad has a 9.7-inch XGA multitouch...

Market research firm ComScore has said in a report that Android has a 26 percent market share in the US, snatching the second position after Research in Motion’s (RIM) BlackBerry while Apple was relegated to the third spot with 25 percent market share. In number terms, 61.5 million people owned smartphones in the US during the three months ending in November 2010, up...

HP thought it had won the battle when it acquired Palm a few weeks back. What it did not know was that it stood to lose the war. Because the shiny chassis was void of one of its topmost brains. Mike Bell, who was cherished loot for Palm after he spent 16 years sprucing up Apple, has been hired by Intel now. The last time we heard, Bell was the senior Vice President for...

HP seems to be having second thoughts about the Android tablet it planned on creating. So says All Things Digital, “HP’s Android slate has been delayed and won’t ship before the end of the year as planned.” Would it really be that surprising, considering that HP claims to be working on developing Windows 7 and webOS tablets simultaneously? The culprit in this...