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The Top 10 Tech Fails of 2011
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Things don't always work out the way you had them planned. Without further ado, here are ten such examples from last year's dishonour roll.
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HP dumps Windows Phone 7
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HP has abandoned Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 platform in favour of smartphones based on WebOS, but confirms that a Windows 7 slate is still on the cards.
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HP buys fast-boot HyperSpace Linux for $14m
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HP continues to plot its place in a post-Windows world with the purchase of a quick-boot Linux OS. Plus: WebOS becomes a ‘Printer OS’ as printers get widgets and email addresses?
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SCOOP: Acer reveals Android tablet
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Acer unveils a 7 inch colour touchscreen tablet running Google Android OS, expects the slate to launch in October and says “this is no longer a Wintel world”.
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HP to buy Palm for US$1.2bn
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Palm may get a new lease on life thanks to the overnight buyout by HP, which was once Palm’s biggest competitor owing to its range of Windows-powered iPaq PDAs.
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HTC to buy Palm?
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Palm is up for sale, and HTC is said to be lining up to make a bid on the struggling smartphone maker.
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Palm Eos: it's a slimmed down Pre
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With the Palm Pre yet to be revealed to the world, word on the streets is that Palm is already working on another version of its WebOS phone: the Eos.
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