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       HP TABLETS TO DEBUT THIS FALL
       By: eba95 Date: July 25, 2010, 7:28 am
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       "I think you'll see us
       with a family of slate
       products, clearly a
       Microsoft product in
       the enterprise and a
       WebOS product
       broadly-deployed,"
       said Todd Bradley,
       executive vice
       president of HP's
       personal systems
       group. "Slates are
       going to be an
       enormous category;
       this is just in its
       infancy."
       Earlier last week,
       Microsoft's chief
       executive Steve
       Ballmer confirmed
       that it had teamed up
       with nearly two
       dozen hardware
       makers to release
       Windows-based
       tablets to challenge Apple's iPad.
       HP also said it plans to build tablets
       using Palm's WebOS software. The
       company will port the mobile
       operating system to a host of other
       upcoming products, including
       smartphones, netbooks and printers.
       "If you really want to deliver a great
       experience, in this case, the HP
       experience, you want your own OS,"
       said Jon Rubinstein, Palm's chief
       executive. "I think it's important to
       have control over the entire user
       experience and really deliver great
       consumer products."
       HP said WebOS 2.0 is on track for
       release later this year and features
       continual software update through
       cloud-based services. It recently
       completed its $1.2 billion acquisition
       of Palm.
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