This week’s Internet fire sale of HP Touchpads sent the social media community into a blazing spin. Bloggers were posting about it, reporters were typing words at 80 wpm, and bargain hunters gleefully waited day and night for the price drops. When it finally came, it not only had webmasters reeling with the amount of sudden traffic on their websites, but in the aftermath, people came after Barnes... 

The HP TouchPad just keeled over and died. Along with it went the webOS. The assassin? Apple. HP Touchpad In a surprising turn of events, just two years after an investment of a whopping $1.8 billion dollars on Palm’s webOS software that was to help the company regain its stature in the PC hardware business, Hewlett-Packard has decided to pull the plug on their webOS hardware, even as the new tablet...