You may have heard the HP dropped the bomb at the end of this week by announcing along with their sales call that they’d be dropping all of their webOS hardware, so basically the Veer, the Pre and most importantly the TouchPad which could have been one of the iPad’s closest rivals but obviously no more. So what the hell happened?
I don’t know if it’s the David and Goliath syndrome but it seems that the competition are ganging up to take on Apple over their grip on the phone and tablet market.
So who is in bed with who? Well over the last couple of weeks some of the giants of technology have announced partnerships that should help them claw their way to success.
Now this might sound like a odd utility to be harping on about but in the last few days it’s been sooo useful. If you’re anything like me you’re always messing around with USB memory sticks and trying to get them to do different things (yes they are something more than somewhere to store those guilty pictures). For example I’ve been trying to install various operating systems on my daughters netbook with one but if you go for a Linux distribution such as Ubuntu or in one extreme case Android you can end up crapping out your stick altogether. So how to restore it. With the HP USB Storage Format Tool of course. Even though it’s from HP it works on all sticks. So if you find you’ve corrupted the hell out of your little fella run the utility and it’ll be as good as new. Boring but useful.