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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Word has leaked of an all-hands meeting at HP tonight, where CEO Meg Whitman will announce the fate of webOS. It's no surprise to hear that HP is considering selling webOS -- there had been rumblings ...

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 ...

Initially, HP was quiet about its webOS plans, indicating only that it would bring webOS technology to other products such as its printers. (Palm Pre devices also got the operating system.) Then in ...

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 ...

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 decision to cut its $1.2 billion losses and open up WebOS was likely the only choice it had HP announced today plans to contribute WebOS and its Enyo application framework to the open source ...