The biggest consequence of all of the HP maneuvering could be the creation of a real drive to popularize non-Windows OSs, even on the desktop. HP's announcement that it would make WebOS available as a ...

Company names HP veteran Stephen DeWitt to lead WebOS business. Jon Rubinstein will now work on ensuring WebOS will work across HP's many products. Hewlett-Packard has reshuffled the team responsible ...

HP is weighing up a sale of the WebOS platform it got when it bought Palm last year, according to a report. HP's jumbled approach to WebOS was a major factor in the defenestration of chief executive ...

About 50 days ago, Hewlett-Packard unveiled the TouchPad, a 9.7-inch touchscreen tablet that promised to wow the public with its brand-new, innovative mobile operating system, called webOS. The device ...

HP said today it will discontinue its WebOS operations as the company cut its outlook for the next two quarters. The company will also acquire Autonomy, an enterprise information retrieval outfit. The ...

HP has confirmed it has layoffs in the webOS business group underway, a part of the announced effort to shut the hardware side of that group down this year. The company has confirmed that over 500 ...

Unless Apple significantly revamps iOS for the iPad, it’s going to be blown away by HP’s upcoming WebOS TouchPad tablet when it comes to multitasking. HP unveiled the TouchPad today at a media event ...

WebOS relies on cloud-based syncing and backup to HP’s servers using a profile that’s created the first time you activate a webOS device. This is a huge benefit over Android’s ...

TouchPad is one of the products HP announced today to introduce a unique experience for customers around connected mobility, offering a unified experience for the first time across a variety of ...