LAST WEEK we wrote about HP buying Palm, later to point out that HP products that run Windows are now dead ("Slate" as we knew it from public demos is called off).
HP's Slate was an Ugly Baby with Windows 7
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The existing WebOS application base of 1500+ programs, while not huge, will run pretty much as-is with some simple re-packaging and screen optimization, because the apps are all written in the lingua franca of the Web, HTML and Javascript, and are completely CPU platform neutral.
Techcrunch is reporting that Hewlett-Packard is killing off its Slate tablet before it comes to market.
The reasoning, according to a Techcrunch source, is that HP isn't happy with the performance of Window 7 as a tablet operating system. That means HP will be shopping around for a new operating system such as Google's Android OS or they could be fixing to convert Palm's webOS for tablets.
Google is acquiring BumpTop, a startup that aimed to improve the interface of your computer desktop.
BumpTop launched its first product about a year ago. The idea, as founder and chief executive Anand Agarawala described it during a talk at the 2007 TED conference, was to do away with the “same old crap” found in the layout of both the Windows and Mac operating systems. By turning the desktop into a three-dimensional space, users can arrange things more naturally and creatively. They can pile things up, just like they can on a physical desk.