The announcement from HP last week, that it has “…authorized the exploration of strategic alternatives for its Personal Systems Group.” – (which in business speak means – we’re thinking about selling it) created shock in the industry and sent HPs shares free-falling to a six year low. Of the potential suitors in the industry, Samsung, who were consider the most likely candidates for a purchase have...

  The HP Palm Blog has released more coupon codes for Six, previously paid for, Apps: Big Boss, Camera for Touchpad, Angry Birds Rio HD, Quell HD, Pennant and FlightPredictor HD. The apps were previously priced between $.99 and $4.99 so the chance to get them for free should not to be missed. Unfortunately the discount is only valid in the US store and the number of vouchers is sure to sell out...

As yesterday was Windows 95′s 16 Birthday, I thought it might be fun to see how the worlds most popular Operating system has ‘matured’. I’ve included screens shots of the major releases from Windows 1.0 to Windows 7 and included their system requirements for comparison. I think it’s fair to say it’s changed quite significantly!     Windows 1.0 Released November 1985 Requirements CGA/HGA/EGA Mono...

Wow ! Can you believe it? Windows 95 launched on this day in 1995. I remember it well – I was a bright-eyed university student working in PC World to earn my weekend beer money. We had had a couple of  ’secret’ training sessions on Windows 95 prior to launch by impressive and highly-excited MS people. They gave all us sales people cheap “I was there at the start” Windows 95 T-Shirts to wear and you know what I...

WTF? I’m going to guess you have already heard the news that HP has thrown in the towel on WebOS and is also looking for ‘solutions’ to get out of the PC market? If you haven’t heard, then I’m guessing you were on away on a bachelor week holiday or you’ve won the lottery and don’t care about anything anymore. For the rest of us, this is BIG news! The world biggest PC manufacturer is getting out of...