Jon Rubinstein, the former CEO of Palm, has left HP. AllThingsD broke the news Friday afternoon, noting that Rubinstein had served his promised 12-24 month tenure with the company before leaving. “Jon has fulfilled his commitment and we wish him well,” HP spokeswoman Mylene Mangalindan told AllThingsD. Rubinstein led the team ...

HP recently made the decision to open source webOS, the mobile operating system it acquired when it bought Palm in April, 2010. While it’s arguable that HP was responsible for the demise of webOS, several former Palm executives told The New York Times that the operating system was doomed from ...

Hewlett-Packard has made some wild decisions regarding Palm and webOS following the acquisition in 2010. HP bought Palm for $1.2 billion in April of last year, killed webOS hardware, and then reportedly tried to sell Palm and the dead operating system for $1.2 billion, VentureBeat said Wednesday. Among the companies approached by ...

Amazon is reportedly a front runner among multiple companies currently in talks with Hewlett-Packard to purchase its struggling webOS business. VentureBeat cites an anonymous “well-placed source” in reporting the HP is looking to dump what’s left of Palm and webOS as quickly as possible, and Amazon is nearing a deal ...

HP will lay off as many as 525 employees from its Palm division this week AllThingsD reported on Tuesday. HP killed off its webOS mobile operating system in mid-August when it also announced it would discontinue the development of webOS devices such as the TouchPad and Palm Pre family of ...

Former Palm CEO and current Senior Vice President and General Manager of HP’s Palm Global Business Unit Jon Rubinstein reportedly sent a memo to his team on Friday in order to address the less-than-stellar reviews the company’s new TouchPad tablet received from press and bloggers. Likening HP’s position with webOS ...

HP Palm Pre 2 users rejoice, as the webOS 2.1 is about to be deployed by Verizon in the next few days to all customers who own the smartphone.Reports are in that the update is now being rolled out gradually, so users should be patient if they do no find ...

It seems that webOS is much harder to port on Android hardware than Google’s mobile OS is to run on webOS hardware. k3dar in the precentral forums has managed to make Android run on the Palm Pre, as shown in the video below. We’re talking dual boot here and an ...

After slashing the Pre 2 price to $29.99 nearly one month ago, HP Wireless Central is now offering the smartphone for free, but customers will have to sign a new two-year Verizon agreement.One of the last 100% Palm smartphones launched on the market, Palm Pre 2 is nearing end of ...

HP is ready to pick up the profits for its products launched after joining up with Palm, so in order to increase sales of devices that don’t do so well, they announced that the Palm Pre 2 will be offered free of charge. The offer comes courtesy of HP Wireless ...

Unlocked Palm Pre 2 smartphones out there have now a new software update available for them, namely webOS 2.1.0, which was announced as available in the beginning of this week. The new software bring the OS version on Pre 2 devices from webOS 2.0 to 2.1, and packs a ...

With the new Pre 3 announced and showcased during the 2011 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, HP has decided to empty its depots of any remaining Palm Pre 2 stocks. Consequently, they have dropped the price of the smartphone to a mere $29.99 with a new two-year contract.Palm Pre 2 ...