7 posts and columns on Phil McKinney

HP’s Former CTO: Ultrabooks Are Nothing New, webOS Still Has Life Yet

in News on January 12 at 2:02 pm PT

Ultrabooks have been ultra-hyped at CES this year, but they’re nothing new, says the recently retired CTO of HP’s Personal Systems Group.
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Phil McKinney, CTO of HP’s PC Unit, Heads for the Exit

in Enterprise on October 31, 2011 at 4:05 pm PT

McKinney, who oversaw the launch of several high-end PCs, is leaving to promote a book he’s just published and “to help innovators get better at innovating.”
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HP’s Twynergy App Gleans Patterns From a Stream of Tweets

in News on May 23, 2011 at 5:00 am PT

Phil McKinney, the CTO of HP’s computer unit, showed off the Twitter analysis program during a speech at the Maker Faire event in Silicon Valley. Speaking to the crowd of do-it-yourselfers, McKinney also showed HP’s Palm tablet powering lights and a fan and kicked off an effort to aid those with autism.
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HP Will Put Palm Print on Windows PCs

in News on February 15, 2011 at 11:40 am PT

Finally, a bit of clarity on Hewlett-Packard’s plans to “drastically expand” its webOS operating system to the PC and their implications for Microsoft. HP may be going all-in with webOS, but not to the eventual exclusion of Windows. HP CTO Phil McKinney says the company is working on bringing an integrated WebOS experience to the PC.

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HP Sees Collapsing Distance Between Personal And Professional (FASTech)

in News on November 3, 2010 at 12:40 pm PT

We’re here at the VentureWire FASTech conference in beautiful Redwood City, Calif., where technology executives and investors foregoing the San Francisco Giants World Series parade a few miles to the north are gathering to discuss the latest tech trends and developments. A morning slate of panels centered on “The Ever-Changing Tech Sector,” and one of the participants illustrated a huge technology trend with a hum-drum example – lost cell phones.

WebOS Developers Win a Dream Date With HP

in News on September 16, 2010 at 3:00 am PT

Hewlett-Packard has a bunch of webOS hardware in the pipeline–smartphones and other Web-connected devices. And when it ships them, app developers–even those who defected from webOS creator Palm–will be falling over themselves to write software for them, claims webOs evangelist Rahul Sood.

In the Year 2025–Who Knows What Tomorrow Brings in Tech?

in News on January 15, 2009 at 5:43 am PT

While attending the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week, BoomTown moderated what turned out to be a fascinating panel discourse of what was to come in the tech sector. No, it was not akin to a gathering of Trekkies. The SuperSession panel, titled: “What Will They Think of Next? Consumer Technology in 2025,” was less Spock than a logical analysis of where gadgetry is headed by looking at both the past and the present. Here’s a video with the panelists giving their predictions.