We’ve heard for a while now that LG was going to use WebOS on its Smart TVs, but we didn’t imagine that HP was going to sell the whole thing to the South Koreans. I have to remind you that HP spent $1.2 billion on Palm in 2010 and they main goal when buying it was their smartphone expertise and WebOS. In the process of acquiring them and...
It’s been a while since we’ve heard about a major hardware company preparing a Google TV, since there aren’t probably any. It appears that instead of Android, they’re turning to unusual platform choices, such as Open WebOS, in the case of LG’s latest project, that involves a Smart TV based on WebOS. LG has a deal with...
WebOS was spotted over the past days ported on a few devices, including the Galaxy Nexus phone. HP offered the Open WebOS software to interested people recently and they can take it over and turn into something more commercially viable, maybe… An early build of Open webOS 1.0 was seen working on Galaxy Nexus and now the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer...
HP’s TouchPad and Palm devices are now a thing of the past, but webOS is still alive and kicking, in spite of not actually having devices to run on. Open webOS, that’s the new name of the platform entered beta phase in August and a month later, now, the final stable build is ready for consumption, in version 1.0, that’s shown in action...
HP is performing some big moves behind the scenes, so after reshaping the webOS area into Gram, now they give their Mobility area a new spin. There’s an internal memo circulated by HP’s Todd Bradley stating that there will be a new Mobility business separated into the company. That area will be responsible with consumer tablets and “additional...
Well, a team from Nokia that made MeeGo is now Jolla and the former Palm crew is now Gram. Just like everything in the universe, fragments of former big companies don’t die, they just transform. So, the company that put out WebOS and gave us multitasking back in the days when no other mobile OS actually offered that is now reshaped as Gram. HP...
WebOS may be apparently dead, but it’s not quite so, as HP evolves towards an open source webOS. This week they released the Community Edition of the platform, that’s not exactly Open WebOS, instead it’s an open source cut of the version of webOS running on the TouchPad, that is 3.0.5. The team behind the project says that the version...
Last year one of the major topics in tech/ITE was the fall of HP and Palm’s legacy being torn to pieces. HP failed to deliver a viable tablet and phone on the mobile market and they ended the life of webOS early. And now they’re losing an important group of people from the Enyo team working on webOS. Another great migration was the one...
During the past year, HP has announced a webOS tablet, sold it, canceled it, sold it in a fire sale, went back on the cancelation, no actually they canceled it, did a fire sale again and now… they will make more webOS tables. And all of that in the process of also canceling the 7 inch TouchPad Go tablet and promising they’ll give up phones,...
HP announced yesterday that its webOS initiative was turning into an open source platform, that basically signs the death certificate of the OS. This was announced after a meeting at the highest level between the HP leaders. The company claims that it wants to accelerate the development of WebOS, by allowing it to be tweaked by open source passionates. HP...
