HP will hold 3 interesting events, this early 1Q 2011:
1.-February 9th. HP has sent several invitations and is making a lot of buzz on twitter offering one free way ticket to the San Francisco event: "Think Big, Think Small, Think Beyond" Palm blog
2.-February 14th-17th: MWC 2011: HP will be at the Mobile World Congress 2011 in stand 7C37 at to demo HP Palm webOS smartphones with HP e-print.
"The HP Booth will demonstrate our passion and commitment to innovation and industry leadership in mobility, in areas including smartphones, devices, notebooks and netbooks. We'll share new products, services and apps, including offerings from HP Palm, and demonstrate the leading HP webOS operating system, and the latest services from HP ePrint. We'll focus on the work we're doing with application developers to provide customers with the ultimate in personalized experience. "
3-March 14th: HP CEO Leo Aphoteker presentation with all the executive staff will hold a "March Summit Meeting"
Hewlett-Packard rounds out its cloud software and consulting with a new cloud service
While I can assume HP is planning cloud services around webOS (an OS built for web and cloud services), I can't be sure what those services might entail. That said, I'm willing to speculate that they'll be pretty broad. In addition to the typical contact, calendar, notes syncing, I wouldn't be surprised to see HP add a Dropbox-like storage locker, web-based access, and cloud/Internet-based printing (after all, that was one reason HP gave for buying Palm in the first place). The company could go even further by offering its own online office solution and providing a rich data/document sharing mechanism.
Another service already leaked for the Topaz webOS tablet is the HP cloud-canvas service that could bring art ,graphic and fashion designers to webOS.
HP cloud-canvas
In short, I could see the company planning something akin to a webOS-specific version of the majority of Google's cloud offerings but, perhaps, with deeper device integration and deeper integration between services.
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