The mobile operating system that Hewlett-Packard plans to shelve finds a new luster with discount sales and bids to lure application developers. Jay Greene, a CNET senior writer, works from Seattle ...

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, ...

One thing I've learned covering open source for four years here is that it is often the business model of last resort. "We're going open source" can be the same thing as a publication saying "we're ...

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.

What would have been required for WebOS and HP's WebOS devices to be successful? A week after the fire sale, we have people snatching up $99 TouchPads. This is obviously a completely off-the-wall case ...

The design of the HP TouchPad is clean and basic, with a black plastic border that matches the deep black of the screen’s own bezel. The unit has a single button, for returning to home; built in ...

Two and a half years ago, Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPhone and said that its software was five years ahead of the competition; and since then, the rest of the industry has been busy playing ...

LG offers an all-in-one solution for smart TV manufacturers to add its webOS platform to their products, and it was just updated with Apple TV, Apple Music, AirPlay, and HomeKit. LG manufactures and ...

After putting LG’s new webOS-powered smart televisions through their paces and thoroughly enjoying it, we found ourselves wondering: How did LG take what was once a reject mobile operating system and ...

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More CES 2024 news ahead of the actual event is falling into our hands. LG is back with yet another pre-CES announcement. This time, we have a webOS upgrade for more LG TVs in 2024. webOS is the ...

To my knowledge, Palm's WebOS API is in Javascript. WebOS runs on top of the Linux kernel, uses a bunch of GNU utilities and Webkit. What is to keep someone, like Google, from making a similar web ...