HP officially announced this at the company’s second-quarter 2010 earnings conference call

HP has officially announced its plans for Palm’s WebOS. HP CEO Mark Hurd revealed this juicy detail at the company’s second-quarter 2010 earnings conference call. Hurd told analysts that the WebOS would hit in form factors such as Slates and web-connected devices. Hence, the buzz we’ve heard about the upcoming HP tablet internally dubbed as Hurricane is true.

HP has recently acquired Palm and the transaction is set to close on July 31. Obviously, HP would be making best of Palm’s WebOS and would be investing in the research and development of the same. At the recent conference call, Hurd told the analysts that “after closing the acquisition we expect to leverage webOS in the app store beyond Smartphones in the form factor such as slates and web connected printers”.

HP already has Photosmart Premium printer sporting TouchSmart Web printer features and a 4.33-inch touchscreen. We suppose more such printers with WebOS loaded on them can be expected.

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The Printerland Rugby Team

A different cry was heard around the ‘terrain’ at the annual veterans rugby tour held at Saint Savin near Lyon, France.

The usual cry was for ‘allez les bleus’ or ‘allez les rose’ but supporters of the Printerland rugby team had to cry ‘Allez les bleus, jaunes, magenta, noirs’….

The kit designed by staff at Printerland.co.uk was a massive hit as most French rugby clubs have copied the playing shirts of ‘Stade-Francais’ and gone for the, once original, pink look.

Commenting on the design Graham Vickers said ‘we based it upon the logo of Printerland and the colours cyan, magenta, yellow and black from which any colour can be mixed and in-turn printed. On the reverse we had the letters Printerland.co.uk plus some spares. It was quite funny to see a player with just a full-stop on his back and I’m sure this must be a first. We shall raffle the shirts at the players dinner and donate the proceeds to charity’.

The Printerland.co.uk rugby team was made up of veterans of Wilmslow and Altrincham Kersal rugby teams and finished fourth overall in the tournament and won the fair-play trophy.

There exists a seemingly endless list of inventions meant to replace the normal ink cartridges found in printers with eco friendly alternatives. For example: the printer that runs using pencil stubs or the printer that erases (thanks to special ink) and reuses the same sheet of paper up to 1000 times. You might ask how mainstream producers such as Canon would react if one of these inventions actually saw widespread release. Would they dismiss out of hand the pencil stub printer? Or release a competing line of pencils (boasting different grades to change the printout quality)? That I suppose would depend on the public reaction.

Anyway the newest conceptual printer doing the rounds replaces everyday ink cartridges with coffee grounds. Named the RITI Printer and designed by Jeon Hwan Ju, he intends that you literally take the filtered dregs of your morning coffee and feed them into your printer. Moreover Hwan Ju is convinced for some reason that printing is too much a spectator sport: he hence requires the user to move the coffee cartridge back and forth repeatedly until the printout is completed. On the plus side this reduces your electricity bill. On the negative side this both makes large quantities of printing impossible and augurs the creation of a new type of repetitive stress injury.

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