HP today announced the imminent release of webOS 2.0 and Palm Pre 2. webOS 2.0 is both the first major update to the webOS smartphone platform, and the first major webOS release by HP since the ...

SEOUL, Korea, and PALO ALTO, Calif., Feb. 25, 2013 – LG Electronics Inc. has acquired the webOS operating system technology from HP, the companies announced today. To support its next-generation Smart ...

Long after HP dumped webOS as a platform for Palm smartphones and tablets, LG is still using the tech it snagged in 2013 to run apps and manage voice assistants on new smart TVs. While it continues to ...

The webOS story is a sad and bizarre tale by any standards. The mobile platform and gadgets produced by Palm didn't catch the public's eye and was bought by HP for a boatload of cash. HP threw its ...

HP’s Meg Whitman has finally made the fateful decision on webOS: it’s going open source. Follow along here as we track the former Palm software through its transition into a free-for-all operating ...

HP hasn't decided on a license, a governance plan, or even what they'll do with their existing webOS staff. Does HP CEO Meg Whitman really have any kind of clue as to what the company will be doing ...

Palm’s webOS smartphone platform introduced some compelling innovations when it was first released in 2009. The next major version of the operating system, which is currently under development, brings ...

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Hewlett-Packard’s announcement on Thursday to stop making tablets and smartphones based on webOS surprised many analysts, who said the company buckled under the pressure of Apple’s momentum and ...

If WebOS really does go down, it’ll take with it all its developers too. Sniffing an opportunity, Microsoft’s director of developer experience for Windows Phone, Brandon Watson, put out a call on ...

We've been calling for a webOS-based tablet for years now, and HP has finally delivered with the HP TouchPad. The first of a new HP webOS TouchPad tablet family, it has a 9.7-inch 1024 x 768 ...