New HP devices focus on education

HP have unveiled a host of new items aimed at the classroom; including the Digital Sketch tablet and the Pocket Whiteboard.

The Digital Sketch is designed to connect remotely to a central computer – operated by the teacher – allowing teachers to distribute text books and information with ease whilst keeping an eye on the student’s work.

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HP announce three pronged Web OS assault

The latest rumblings from the HP camp suggest that new devices supporting their Web OS platform – including a netbook – may be just around the corner.

Following on from the Palm Pre Web OS smartphone – and HP’s purchase of Palm, the company that developed Web OS last decade – HP announced via an introductory video that it would be launching Web OS on a “phone and a slate and a netbook”.

Well we know that a slate device is in the pipeline in the form of the HP Topaz, but as yet no netbooks have been rumoured featuring Web OS.

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Intel’s Might Atom hits 70 Million Sales, Prompting a Wave of New Apps (video)

70 million Atom processors sold by intel.

This was announced at a presentation for the Dual-Core Atom N550, which powers HP’s Mini 5103 netbook.

So what does this mean for the future of netbooks? The Atom’s dominance in this market could lead to app producers creating a raft of netbook-specific applications, tailored for use with the Atom processor.

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