Apple's troubled Newton was close to being the first smartphone.
Editor's Pick Jeff Hawkins reveals his latest invention, a "big data" product called Grok, which stems from years of neuroscience research.
I've been to DEMO as a member of the press, a presenting entrepreneur, and as part of the production team. It's been a long, amazing ride.
webOS daddy Palm is being reborn as Gram, but don't expect a tablet from the new company.
Jon Rubinstein, the former Apple executive who spearheaded engineering for the iPod, and then proceeded to revitalize Palm, has officially left Hewlett-Packard, the company confirmed today.
The news isn’t entirely unexpected. Rubinstein was reportedly a no-show at HP since former …
HP is moving forward with its plans to open source webOS, after failing to sell it off last year.
The company says it plans to complete the open sourcing process for webOS by September, which will be called Open webOS …
$1.2 billion. That’s how much HP paid for Palm last year, and it’s also how much the company was trying to sell its Palm assets for over the latter half of 2011, VentureBeat has learned.
As baffling as it may …
New HP CEO Meg Whitman has a tough decision about what to do with webOS, so she’s given herself a little more breathing room by saying the final call will come in two weeks.
HP, which bought webOS-creator Palm last …
For some strange reason, HP is still really hot on the idea of mating webOS with its printers — to the point where it has become a crucial part of its negotiations to sell off its Palm assets.
In addition …
The head of HP’s PC division Todd Bradley called a report yesterday that HP has decided to shut down its WebOS devision an “unfounded rumor.”
Bradley, appearing in a Bloomberg West interview last night, said that contrary to the rumors …
[Update: HP has since said this is an "unfounded rumor."]
HP decided yesterday that it would, in fact, keep its massive PC business alive, but the webOS division will reportedly not be so lucky.
A report by the …
Amazon is under fire for its new Kindle Fire tablet, the new target of a patent lawsuit by Smartphone Technologies of Acacia Research Corporation, a patent aggregating and licensing
Acacia Research has hit up a number of other smartphone manufacturers …
The inevitable layoffs for workers in HP’s webOS division began this week, with the company planning to let as many as 525 workers go, reports All Things Digital.
After HP killed its webOS hardware business out of the blue in …
If recent news about HP’s bumbling of webOS is giving you a headache, you may want to stop reading right now.
The company apparently gave up on a string of cool webOS devices when it announced that it would no …
One reason HP may have shuttered its webOS-based devices unit Thursday may be that its hardware was only half as fast as its major competitor.
A report from The Next Web says HP internally tested webOS on an Apple iPad …
Hewlett-Packard is having quite a day.
HP today announced it would acquire Autonomy, a massive enterprise software company, for $10 billion. It also announced that it would no longer develop mobile devices running Palm’s webOS mobile operating system, and that …
Hewlett-Packard is getting into the magazine business!
Er… sort of.
The hardware giant is preparing to launch Pivot, a monthly digital publication exclusively offered on its forthcoming TouchPad tablet. Rather than running pure advertorial, the hybrid magazine/app guide will offer …
