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 ...

HP is moving forward with its plans to open source webOS, after failing to sell it off last year. The company says it plans to complete the open sourcing process for webOS by September, which will be ...

The biggest consequence of all of the HP maneuvering could be the creation of a real drive to popularize non-Windows OSs, even on the desktop. HP's announcement that it would make WebOS available as a ...

HP is weighing up a sale of the WebOS platform it got when it bought Palm last year, according to a report. HP's jumbled approach to WebOS was a major factor in the defenestration of chief executive ...

HP has split webOS off of the PC hardware division it intends to sell and moved it to an incubator division, where development of over-the-air updates and the app catalog will continue. webOS isn't ...

If the rumors pan out, the new tablet, supposedly code-named HP Hurricane, could be a major product launch for HP in the third quarter -- and a potential wedge driven between longtime partners HP and ...

Unless Apple significantly revamps iOS for the iPad, it’s going to be blown away by HP’s upcoming WebOS TouchPad tablet when it comes to multitasking. HP unveiled the TouchPad today at a media event ...

WebOS, the software behind HP’s failed TouchPad tablet and Palm’s failed Pre smartphones, is getting another shot at life as an open source operating system. That means anyone, from bedroom ...

HP's move to make webOS open source is close to being fully realised, with the company announcing the beta version of 'Open webOS' has now gone live. The beta release which comes eight months after ...

Title lifted fully from a morning press release by HP. The meat of it is: HP will make the underlying code of webOS available under an open source license. Developers, partners, HP engineers and other ...

HP announced today that the company would discontinue its webOS hardware products in the fourth quarter of 2011. That means we can say goodbye to the HP TouchPad tablet and the HP Pre, Veer, and other ...