At a trade show known for hardware, LG gets serious about software
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“Well, I'm not sure I would have sold the company to HP. That's for sure. Talk about a waste.”
— Jon Rubinstein, former Palm CEO and former SVP of hardware engineering at Apple, responding to an interview question by Fierce Wireless's Phil Goldstein.
From HP to LG: WebOS Finds Yet Another Home
In totally weird and unexpected news, LG plans to buy key parts of WebOS from HP, aiming to use the operating system in televisions.
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WebOS: Dead? Oh, Sure, Almost Certainly — But Not Definitely
In January of 2009, Palm unveiled WebOS, its next-generation mobile operating system. A lot of us got really, really excited over it. It turned out, however, that WebOS’s launch day was its first and only moment of unalloyed …
WebOS Open Source Launch Set for September
HP’s WebOS Going Open Source, Tablets May Return
WebOS, the software behind HP’s failed TouchPad tablet and Palm’s failed Pre smartphones, is getting another shot at life as an open source operating system.
That means anyone, from bedroom programmers to rival tech companies, …
If HP Undoes Apotheker, Might WebOS Make a Comeback?
The New York Times has published a stunning takedown of HP’s board of directors, accusing the board of being “rife with animosities, suspicion, distrust, personal ambitions and jockeying for power that rendered it nearly dysfunctional.”
This very board, according to All Things D and Bloomberg, is thinking about ousting HP’s current …
HP TouchPad Might Not Be Dead After All
HP’s TouchPad tablets might not be gone for good, even after the fire sale ends. A company executive believes that the doomed tablet, which was more popular in death than in life, could make a comeback if HP spins off its personal computer business.
The TouchPad was on the market for about six weeks before HP announced that it would …
HP’s WebOS Failure Proves It’s Hard to Be Like Apple
With HP’s decision to stop making WebOS phones and tablets, one thing is painfully clear: Being like Apple is tougher than it looks.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs famously said that his company “creates the whole widget,” from hardware to software to services. By comparison, hardware makers like Dell, Samsung and Lenovo are at the whim of …
How HP Can Save WebOS and the TouchPad
Apparently, huge price cuts on HP’s Touchpad didn’t save the tablet from flopping hard. Sources tell All Things Digital that Best Buy has sold just 25,000 units — less than 10 percent of its inventory. Analyst Rich Doherty of the Envisioneering Group says sales are also poor at Walmart, Microcenter and Fry’s.
(MORE: HP’s TouchPad …
HP’s TouchPad Gets a $100 Price Cut, This Weekend Only
Did Tuesday’s $50 price cut on the HP TouchPad strike you as ho-hum? Perhaps this weekend’s $100 price cut will do the trick.
The instant rebate will be in effect from August 5 through August 7 on HP’s website, PreCentral reports.
(MORE: HP’s TouchPad: A Promising Tablet That Needs More Polish)
The TouchPad debuted to lukewarm …
HP Is Committed to Its ‘WebOS’ Platform (and It Should Be)
Ben Bajarin is the Director of Consumer Technology Analysis and Research at Creative Strategies, Inc, a technology industry analysis and market intelligence firm located in Silicon Valley.
As a technology consulting firm, our company has had the opportunity to work with most of the vendors in the PC market and for most of the last …