Hewlett-Packard Co. is said to discontinue its tablet computer and smartphone products and may sell or spin off its PC division.
It's believed to be one of extreme makeovers in the company's history and signals new CEO Leo Apotheker's most transparent move to date to make HP look more like longtime rival IBM Corp.
The most credible result for consumers will be the end of HP's TouchPad tablet, a sales dud, and HP-branded smartphones, also-rans in a booming market crowded with the iPhone and devices based on Google's Android system.
