Quote of the Day – Jon Rubinstein

What makes HP TouchPad a compelling alternative to competing products is webOS. – Jon Rubinstein, senior vice president and general manager, Palm Global Business Unit, HP (June 9, 2011 On August 18, HP killed the webOS-based TouchPad after a horrible market reception to the tablet. Related Stories: Non-iPad Tablets Should Roll Over & Die It’s […]

HP Waves the White Flag, Kills TouchPad in 49 Days

A bleeding, beaten, crushed HP today waved the white flag at Apple today, abandoning its fledgling moves into the tablet market. Folks, if we’ve said it once, we’ve said it a million times. There is only one tablet that matters – Apple iPad. And smart, thinking people including yours truly are buying only the iPad. […]

Indian Techie Develops Brain Like Chip at IBM

An Indian techie Dharmendra Modha is leading an initiative at IBM to develop a chip (microprocessor) that mimics the functioning of the human brain. Describing the new microprocessor as cognitive computing chips, IBM researchers say they will emulate the brain’s abilities for perception, action and cognition. An experimental version of the chip has already been […]