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Derek Kessler / PreCentral.net:
HP begins TouchPad liquidation; 16GB cut to $99, 32GB $149 — We were wondering how exactly HP was going to handle the glut of TouchPads in the market now that they've decided they're done making hardware for webOS. Now we have our answer: fire sale! — In a memo sent to HP affiliates …
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Charlie White / Mashable!:
HP Tablet: How to Find a Deeply Discounted HP TouchPad — The discontinued HP TouchPad continues its liquidation at fire sale prices, and the frantic search for the defunct tablet at that elusive $99.99 price is one of the trending topics on Twitter today. — Use this link to search Twitter …
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@joshuatopolsky, Daring Fireball, Engadget, L.A. Times Tech Blog, @brynaathp, @mrgan and @betanews, Thanks:benparr
Dan Ramirez / webOSroundup:
BREAKING: HP Crediting Fire-Sale Difference to Current TouchPad Owners — Folks, we're all a bit upset right now, and who can blame you? But it's looking to us like HP is trying to make things right for customers that took the plunge on the HP TouchPad previously. Here's what we know:
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Engadget, PC Magazine, Kindle Review, PhoneDog.com, Gizmodo, Liliputing, Gizmodo, PhoneArena, @bestbuy, VentureBeat, PreCentral.net and Mashable!
Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:
Early Adopters Peeved as Others Race to Buy the TouchPad at Bargain Prices — HP has slashed prices to clear hundreds of thousands of orphaned TouchPads from store shelves, following this week's announcement that it would no longer make devices based on WebOS.
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PC World, ZDNet, GeekWire, BetaNews and PreCentral.net
Peter Bright / Ars Technica:
Feature: “A sort of PC”: how Windows 8 will invade tablets (and why it might work) — For the first time in fifteen or more years, Redmond faces a genuine challenge to its Windows desktop monopoly. The threat isn't coming from Linux or from Mac OS X or from any other operating system.
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Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Microsoft slams post-PC idea, claims “PC isn't even middle aged yet”
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Computerworld, Electronista, WinBeta, TechNet Blogs and The Business Insider
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Google+ Rolls Out Verified Profiles, Still Struggles With Real-Name Policy — William Shatner, rejoice! Earlier today, Wen-Ai Yu from the Google+ team announced with a post on Google+ and an accompanying YouTube video that the social network now boasts ‘verification badges’ for celebrities …
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Wen-Ai Yu, PC World, Search Engine Land, PC Magazine, CNET News, Gizmodo, ITworld.com, Sean Percival's Blog, Robert Scoble and WebProNews
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Jamie Zawinski / jwz:
Nym Wars — Yes, yes, let's just get this one out of the way now. — I hadn't been paying much attention to the Google “Real Names” clusterf**k, because it was so obvious to me that they were going to lose this one in the press that it would all be over soon.
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LAUNCH and Boing Boing
Kevin Marks / Epeus' epigone:
Google Plus must stop this Identity Theatre — Bruce Schneier in Beyond Fear coined a phrase: … The Common Names debâcle at Google Plus is a variant of this, where the supposed protections are manifestly not working. Google's stated policy on this is that you should use your ‘common name’ …
Zach Epstein / BGR:
No, HP, you're off the mark — Oh nooo. That was the first thought that crossed my mind as I began to read Jon Zilber's post on HP's company blog. Quoting Mark Twain? Oh no he didn't. In a nutshell, Zilber's intent was to correct the world's press, which collectively played Taps while standing over webOS's grave this past week.
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The Official HP Palm Blog and blog.chron.com
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Derek Kessler / PreCentral.net:
Kerris: work on webOS and app ecosystem will continue
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HP webOS Developer Blog, PhoneArena, Electronista, Bloomberg, Marco.org, The Next Web and Ars Technica
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Worth More Dead Than Alive: Could HP Turn a Profit on Palm's Patents?
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Tech Trader Daily and MacDailyNews
Marc Andreessen / Wall Street Journal:
Why Software Is Eating The World — This week, Hewlett-Packard (where I am on the board) announced that it is exploring jettisoning its struggling PC business in favor of investing more heavily in software, where it sees better potential for growth. Meanwhile, Google plans to buy up the cellphone handset maker Motorola Mobility.
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Data Central, @jason, Felix Salmon, Howard Lindzon, Pitos Blog, @blam and Slashdot, Thanks:hpnews
Ronny Kerr / VatorNews:
StumbleUpon bests Facebook in sharing... maybe — StatCounter: StumbleUpon now leads in social media sharing, but HTTPS security may be a factor — The social media sharing war rages on. Let's take a little walk through some StatCounter data for U.S. social media sharing traffic over the past couple years.
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ReadWriteWeb, @gmc and Digital Trends
Robert X. Cringely / I, Cringely:
Losing the HP Way — Hewlett Packard was different from other Silicon Valley companies and always a leader. By the time I met Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard in the late 1970s they were nearing retirement but still active and I knew them, working occasionally for both men and for their respective foundations.
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