HP has gone into detail today on what webOS components will be open sourced over the coming months, making Enyo 1.0 and the newly-announced Enyo 2.0 available immediately. HP has gone into detail ...

Hewlett-Packard will discontinue operations for devices running on WebOS. Despite critical praise, the WebOS software just couldn't compete in the crowded market for smartphone operating systems.

When Palm first unveiled webOS in 2009, the new platform was supposed to be the next mobile messiah. With its sexy user interface, a developer-friendly backend and a host of new features like ...

The Internet is abuzz over news announced at Mobile World Congress 2013 today regarding LG Electronics’ acquisition of WebOS from Hewlett Packard (HP). The topic is getting a fair amount of traction, ...

Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology. This week's release of the HP TouchPad, the first device other than a handset to feature webOS, aptly demonstrates the ...

The strange story of the webOS platform continues, with HP providing a few details on how the open sourcing will proceed. The company recently confirmed it will offer up the platform to open source, ...

WebOS devices are dead, at least for now. HP said Thursday killing the webOS business it picked up with the acquisiton of Palm last April. It's a sudden turn for the mobile software HP had placed at ...

It’s ironic that perhaps the best commentary on the technology industry is a line written 160 years ago by the Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier: “For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest ...

LG's brand-new smart platform, webOS, wasn't initially intended for televisions. In a previous life, webOS was Palm's (and then HP's) last attempt at a mobile operating system, and it was... average.

When HP abruptly announced it was discontinuing the TouchPad and ceasing work on any future devices running webOS, we took that to mean the underdog operating system had died a premature death. But ...

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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 ...