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 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, ...

Hey, Hewlett-Packard, you’re a real head-scratcher. Just 16 months ago you promise to change the mobile world by acquiring WebOS. Now, you’ve raised the white flag on that $1.2 billion buy. It’s a lot ...

The company that used to be Palm comes with a cache of thousands of patents. This isn’t just any portfolio filed with minor process technolgies; the argument could be made that Palm invented the ...

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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 ...

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.

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 ...

The HP TouchPad Go was to be the savior of webOS as we knew it. It would have, with one swipe up and one swipe over, cast aside all doubt that HP and webOS were major players in the tablet space. But ...

It looks like we could find out what HP plans to do with webOS some time later today, as according to a recent report by The Next Web, HP’s CEO Meg Whitman has reportedly called a meeting for today, ...