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HP TouchPad Not Selling Well at Best Buy: Report
Sales of Hewlett-Packard’s TouchPad are flagging at Best Buy stores, according to a new report. If accurate, that’s a potential sign of wider trouble for HP’s tablet. “According to one source who’s seen internal HP reports,” read an Aug. 16 piece by Arik Hesseldahl on AllThingsD, “Best Buy has taken delivery of 270,000 TouchPads and…
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Intel Won’t Cut CPU Prices for Ultrabooks: Reports
The issue of price for Intel’s ultrabook concept is being raised again, this time in regard to how much the chip maker is charging OEMs for its processors. According to the Taiwan news site DigiTimes, system makers asked Intel to cut the price of its CPUs by half in hopes of giving them a better…
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Should Microsoft Buy Nokia or RIM After Google, Motorola Merger?
Should Google’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility drive Microsoft to buy either Nokia or Research In Motion? That s the question zipping around the blogosphere after Google announced it would snatch up Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion. The search-engine giant and the handset maker already had something of a tight relationship, as exemplified by the latter’s…
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Dell, HP Earnings Expected to Rise: Report
Computer maker Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) and technology giant Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) are expected to post gains and slight losses, respectively, in revenue growth in Dell’s second-quarter and HP’s third-quarter earnings reports, according to a research note from Bernstein Research. Dell is expected to post revenues of $15.77 billion, representing a year-over-year increase of 1.5 percent. HP is…