Sydney Morning Herald HP to offer webOS as open-source software Columbia Daily Tribune HP snagged the intuitive webOS software when it paid $1.8 billion in 2010 for Palm Inc. in what became a failed effort to revive the flailing smartphone pioneer. HP said it still plans to develop and support webOS.
Sydney Morning Herald Comment: Is webOS the new Plan B for mobile? The H HP has now formally announced that webOS, the Touchpad and Palm Pre's mobile operating system, is to be open sourced. But will that move make any difference to the future of open mobile platforms?
Sydney Morning Herald Report: HP may sell WebOS ZDNet UK (blog) HP is weighing up a sale of the WebOS platform it got when it bought Palm last year, according to a report. The computer giant paid $1.2bn (£789m) for Palm in 2010, largely so it could get its hands on WebOS, … HP Looking to Sell webOS Dealerscope HP Offers webOS Developers $150 TouchPads Tom’s Guide WebOS Developers To Get 32GB HP TouchPad For $150 ITProPortal LAPTOP Magazine (blog)
Sydney Morning Herald 80% off: HP TouchPad $99 trash sale reignites deadbeat tablet too late Beatweek Magazine The HP TouchPad was such a spectacular cataclysm that it's reduced Hewlett Packard down to being a printer company in the same manner in which the TouchPad's webOS predecessor the Palm Pre was such a disaster that it ended Palm's … HP's exit from smartphone, tablet arena disappointing Jackson Clarion Ledger Think HP is going to be able to license WebOS
Sydney Morning Herald 80% off: HP TouchPad $99 sale has junk tablet proving discount adage Beatweek Magazine The HP TouchPad was enough of a disaster that it reduced Hewlett Packard back down to being a printer company, just as the TouchPad's webOS predecessor the Palm Pre was such a disaster that it ended Palm's existence. … Palm Pre 3 bargain Sell My Mobile HP's exit from smartphone, tablet arena disappointing Jackson Clarion Ledger Think HP is going to be able to license WebOS?
Sydney Morning Herald (blog) HP TouchPad in game-over $99 blowout sale as iPad dominates Galaxy Tab Beatweek Magazine After less than two months on the market, the iPad copycat running the leftover operating system from the failed Palm Pre was yanked by Hewlett Packard in one of the more humiliating mea culpas in recent consumer tech memory. … WebOS: What Went Wrong
Sydney Morning Herald (blog) What should WebOS smartphone and tablet owners do now? CNET Use your pebble-shaped Palm Pre as a stone in your Zen garden.
New York Times (blog) In nod to IBM, HP overhaul minimizes consumers Sioux City Journal 2, 2010 file photo, the Palm Pre Plus, left, and the Palm Pixi Plus are shown in San Francisco. In a dramatic reshuffling, Hewlett-Packard Co. on Thursday, Aug
Sydney Morning Herald (blog) Busted: HP kills PCs, webOS, Palm Pre , TouchPad, Rubinstein's dream Beatweek Magazine Eventually Palm went up for sale, and Hewlett Packard scooped it up. The Palm Pre became the HP Pre, and a webOS-based tablet called the TouchPad was added to the mix. Nevermind that the TouchPad was such a blatant hardware ripoff of the iPad design ..
Reuters Palm largely dead as HP shuts phone, tablet unit Sydney Morning Herald Palm was a year into a major turnaround effort but gaining little traction despite a hip, new CEO known for making the iPod a household name. It had high hopes for its latest handset, the Pre , which ran on the company's new, intuitive operating … Summary Box: Hewlett-Packard to ditch tablets, smartphones, possibly sell PC …
Sydney Morning Herald (blog) Don't be surprised if HP's next TouchPad is a 7-inch tablet GigaOm The company spent $1.2 billion to acquire Palm last year and has repeatedly said it would use webOS on phones, tablets, printers and even traditional PCs.
Sydney Morning Herald (blog) HP TouchPad Review Digitaltrends.com We've been fans of webOS since it debuted on the Palm Pre , and when HP acquired Palm in 2010, the operating system seemed like a natural fit for a tablet. The TouchPad is also the only tablet to have the exact same screen size and aspect ratio as …
Sydney Morning Herald (blog) HP's TouchPad let down by 'ho-hum' hardware The Australian Unlike the fast-growing horde of tablets based on Google's Android operating system, the TouchPad uses webOS, an operating system that HP scored when it bought the Palm business back in April last year. While webOS was first developed for the Palm Pre …
Sydney Morning Herald How the new HP Touchpad compares to the iPad, Android Honeycomb Australian Business Traveller webOS was originally created by Palm for its Pre smart phone, which never went on sale in Australia, and when Palm was recently sold HP, it morphed into a tablet OS.
