When HP abruptly announced it was discontinuing the TouchPad and ceasing work on any future devices running webOS, we took that to mean the underdog operating system had died a premature death. But when the company ousted bumbling CEO Leo Apotheker and replaced him with Meg Whitman, we had to wonder if webOS might have some life in it yet.
HP TouchPad: What's in the box? Recombu The HP TouchPad runs HP webOS, which was formally Palm webOS, the same operating system as the Palm Pre 3. With this HP joins Rim and Apple in offering a complete hardware and software solution.
HP is rightly proud of its TouchPad, the large screen offering based upon Palm’s critically acclaimed, but commercially underwhelming, WebOS operating system first seen in the Palm Pre.
HP may be prepping a netbook using its Linux-based WebOS operating system, says an industry report.
Earlier this year, we asked how you’d change Palm’s Pre Plus and Pixi Plus , both of which were launched with webOS 1.x. Needless to say, a lot can happen in three calendar quarters
Hewlett-Packard Co. unveiled the Palm Pre 2 and an upgraded version of Palm’s WebOS smart phone operating system Tuesday. The Palm Pre 2 and the updated operating system, officially dubbed HP WebOS 2.0, are the first new product releases since…
HP unveils webOS 2.0, Palm Pre 2 bound for Verizon FierceWireless Hewlett-Packard announced the latest version of Palm's operating system, webOS 2.0, and also unveiled the Palm Pre 2, the first Palm smartphone HP will …
Palm Pixi Plus Review by 3G.co.uk 3G (press release) The webOS operating system for the Palm Pre was first launched last summer.
Its a good bet youll be getting an update to your smartphones operating system today or in the very near future.
Hardly the most exciting Palm news you’re gonna hear this week, but the company that still owns itself for the time being has just updated its WebOS software on Verizon to the extremely granular version 1.4.1.1. The helpful changelog informs us there are no new apps, but pinch-zoom now works correctly in Doc and PDF views, a lag in the camera shutter sound has been rectified, and forwarding videos uploaded to YouTube on to your friends via email has also been made to work as it should.
Will Palm's sale create a windfall for U2's Bono and partners? BusinessWeek In early 2009, the “new” Palm unveiled the Palm Pre smartphone, and an innovative new operating system, webOS, which is a Linux kernel with an embedded … and more
Failing a Palm acquisition , there might still be justification for HTC to build out its own software platform for many of the same reasons that buying Palm would make sense — the company’s getting bigger and more important to the market by the day, after all, and being left at the mercy of Google and Microsoft to produce cohesive platforms of their own might not sit well with Chou’s team ad infinitum .
The Week Magazine posted on March 22, 2010, at 2:53 PM The Week Magazine Is this the end of the line for Palm? Sadly, it appears Palm is finished: The Palm Pre has great hardware and a “genuinely terrific” operating system, … and more