Former Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein says that selling Palm to HP was a mistake.
With its webOS's move to LG, its story has reached its latest, and perhaps strangest, chapter yet.
HP's open source webOS project is on schedule, and one team has already brought it to the popular Galaxy Nexus.
HP may have failed at smartphones once before, but the company knows it can't be absent from the market for long.
webOS daddy Palm is being reborn as Gram, but don't expect a tablet from the new company.
The main coders working on HP’s Enyo — the HTML5 application framework first seen in the HP TouchPad — have jumped ship and are headed to Google, the Verge reports.
This puts a huge dent in HP’s plan to open …
As expected, Hewlett-Packard has announced that it will start manufacturing tablets again, but instead of webOS these tablets will run Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 8 OS.
HP famously launched the webOS TouchPad tablet in July 2011 and then axed its whole …
It’s not a great day for HP employees. The company just announced it has laid off 275 employees from its webOS division, The Verge reported.
The news follows webOS head John Rubinstein’s recent departure.
HP released a statement today, saying …
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 …
Hewlett-Packard chief executive Meg Whitman says tablets are still in the cards for the newly open sourced WebOS, despite lackluster sales for the mobile operating system’s original product, the Touchpad.
Whitman and investor Marc Andreessen of venture firm Andreessen-Horowitz explained …
After shopping webOS around to major companies like Amazon and Qualcomm, HP has decided to make the platform available to the open source community, the company announced today.
The move allows third-party companies to use webOS, but HP will still …
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 …
In a company meeting Tuesday, Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman said she isn’t sure exactly what move to make with the company’s hobbled webOS operating system, reports The Verge.
HP paid $1.2 billion for webOS’ creator Palm in 2010 with the …
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 …
An unauthorized shipment of TouchPads running the Android operating system has HP scrambling for leads, and open source advocates up in arms.
The TouchPads in question were supposed to ship with webOS, HP’s beleaguered mobile operating system. Instead, some users …
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Who will save what’s left of Palm from HP’s bumbling? It could be Amazon, as the online retailing giant is in serious negotiations to snap up Palm from HP, VentureBeat has learned.
A well-placed source tells us that HP is …
