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Leap Motion seals deal with HP

Leap Motion, a highly accurate device allowing users to control their PCs with gestures, will be embedded into a range of HP laptops. The controller is able accurately to detect the movement of 10 fingers at once, allowing for intricate gesture-based controls.

 

H-P's Meg Whitman Receives $15.4 Million---Proxy Filing

In Meg Whitman's first full year on the job as Hewlett-Packard's chief executive, she received compensation valued at $15.4 million, according to H-P's proxy filing.

 

HP says acquired company lied about finances

Hewlett-Packard Co. said that a British company it bought for $9.7 billion last year lied about its finances, resulting in a massive write-down of the value of the business. CEO Meg Whitman avoided calling it a fraud, but said Tuesday that there were "serious accounting improprieties, disclosure failures and outright misrepresentations at Autonomy Corporation PLC."

 

Tech giant HP to slash 27,000 jobs by 2014

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Hewlett-Packard Co., the world’s largest PC maker, will cut 27,000 jobs, or about 8 percent of its staff, by 2014 to bring down costs and make the company more competitive in a changing marketplace.

 

Exclusive: Dell plots late-2012 consumer tablet launch

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Dell Inc intends to launch its first consumer tablet computer in late 2012, marking its entry into a hotly contested and increasingly crowded arena that has already claimed arch-foe Hewlett Packard.

 

HP Claims New Wireless Mice Last Two Years on a Single Charge

The braggadocios Energy bunny likes to beat his drum and tell everyone he can keep going and going and going, but would you have guessed Hewlett-Packard would emerge as the real battery life master? HP just announced a couple of new wireless mice that, amazingly, are supposed to last two years or longer on a single charge, or so the company claims.

 

So which is it HP, do you want a tablet business or not?

HP's decision to kill off its nascent tablet effort was stunning but at least it seemed decisive. But now the company is muddying the waters by suggesting that the fate of the TouchPad isn't sealed. HP's Todd Bradley said the company could still resurrect the device.

 

HP TouchPads Slated For Return To Best Buy?

It was widely reported that Best Buy was sitting on over 200,000 TouchPads before HP enacted their drastic price cut, but the fire sale has come and gone, and that would normally be that.

 

10 Things You Can Do with a $100 TouchPad

The TouchPad may not be the perfect tablet, but it is selling for $100 right now, but it's going fast. Actually, it's pretty much gone. But if you did manage to snag one, here are ten good uses for it.

 

Thinking Of Buying A $99 TouchPad? Don't

Thinking Of Buying A $99 TouchPad? Don't

The TouchPad is dead, but Hewlett-Packard is giving it a hell of a wake. HP has slashed the price of its $399 tablet computer to $99 after killing the product on Thursday, sparking a buying frenzy. Finally, an Apple competitor has found a price low enough to start a shopping stampede. And why not? Sure ...

 

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