HP has launched the 64GB TouchPad in Europe, with its first listing having been put up on the French version of the company’s online store. The device is listed at a price of €599 ($860) and ships in 1 – 2 weeks. PreCentral first spottedthe landing page for the tableton HP’s French website, which was soon followed byits being made available for order, and finally culminatedwith the company’s official announcement(yes, in that order—roll with it, will you?...

HP’s decision to cease productionof its TouchPad tablets and Pre smartphones and license the webOS mobile operating system has seen its upstream suppliers left with a build-up of component inventory which was prepared for the production of the upcoming 7-inch TouchPad,reports Digitimes. According to sources, HP is currently in talks with suppliers to ease inventory issues, with HP Taiwan highlighting that it will still “maintain its promise” to the partners, despite the fact it has not notified suppliers of its intentions....

While Dell held on to its leading position in the Indian PC market with a marketshare of 17% in Q2 of 2011, there was a changing of guard lower down the order as Acer, with its 12% share, overtook HP to become the second largest PC maker in India, as reported by market research firm Gartner. Sales of computers in the Indian market reached 2.5 million units in the same quarter, helped primarily by the notebook sales, which grew 17% year-over-year....

HP recently invited me to a talk about its Indian strategy forImage and Printing Group(IPG) and the various initiatives the company was taking to deliver seamless, secure, context-aware print experiences to both consumers and enterprise users, thereby accelerating its business growth in the region. Web-connected printers HP stated that it sold around 3 million units in India during Q1 2011 and has captured 90% market share in the wide-format printer category and 55% market share overall....

We just got word that HP’s new Pavilion DM1 is now available in Canada, exclusively through the big box retailerBest Buy. HP’s notebook sports an AMD Vision E350 dual-core 1.6 GHz processor, 11.6” high-definition diagonal BrightView LED display with a screen size of 1366 x 768. It’s also powered by AMD Fusion technology, a fancy name for its accelerated processing unit that aims to improve data transfer rates while reducing the battery consumption....