By Greg Mills
As news of the cancelation of the HP TouchPad and Web OS smartphones hit the street, speculation abounds as the future for both HP as a company and its established business units. Almost as an afterthought the news came out that HP was also throwing in the towel on its PC manufacturing business.
Read MoreA new report from one Wall Street analyst — Trip Chowdhry of Global Equities Research — says Mac sales have slowed significantly since the fourth week in July, suggesting its back-to-school promotion isn’t boosting sales as much as expected.
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Apple, which recently agreed to lease a big store in Grand Central Terminal, has now signed a 45,000-square-foot office lease at 100-104 Fifth Ave. in the Flatiron District, according to “The New York Post” (http://macte.ch/BZf0s).
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Posted by Greg Mills
I was somewhat taken back by the news that HP has pulled the plug on the TouchPad, so quickly. That the Palm OS smartphones and computer business were also cut by HP means the shake out of the mobile computing market is beginning in ernest. A massive shift to tablets is underway and when I say tablet, you can read that iPad.
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An Apple patent (number 20110202674) for dynamic adjustments of video streams has appeared at the US Patent & Trademark Office. It relates to streaming video from a server to a client.
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