During the annual Consumer Electronics Show in January 2009, a struggling smartphone company that had once helped shape the mobile industry unveiled its next-generation platform. It was gorgeous. The design was unique and appealing, the gesture-based controls were smart and intuitive, and the company’s new smartphone operating system offered a ...

Hewlett-Packard will cut 275 of its 500 remaining employees on the webOS team as its mobile platform transitions to open source, WebOS Nation reported on Tuesday. “As webOS continues the transition from making mobile devices to open source software, it no longer needs many of the engineering and other related positions ...

HP is working on releasing its webOS platform under an open source license, and has just announced advancements in the area.The company has made the February Open webOS releases official, which include extensions to QtWebKit, Isis (web browser), integration with JavaScript core, UI Enyo widgets, and its governance ...

webOS is currently moving to open source, and should breathe new life as soon as the transition to this licensing model is completed, HP believes. In fact, the company is convinced that the OS will manage to top rival platforms such as Android and iOS, and says that it ...

Though Hewlett-Packard was unable to produce webOS devices that consumers were interested in buying — at a positive margin, at least — CEO Meg Whitman still thinks the beleaguered platform has legs. After unsuccessfully trying to sell or license webOS, HP decided late last year to donate its $1.2 billion platform to ...

HP is committed to make webOS open source, and has just announced plans to complete the transition to the new licensing model by fall 2012. September is the month during which the webOS would go open source, the company announced, adding that it had already kicked off ...

HP cut its losses last month and announced the company’s webOS mobile operating system would move to an open source model. On Wednesday, HP released a roadmap detailing the open source future of webOS. The company said it expects the software to be fully open-sourced by September, at which point it ...

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 ...

There’s no question about it: HP made one of the biggest blunders of the year when it comes to how the company handled Palm and webOS. During the past 12 months, HP relieved one CEO who was hired less than a year earlier in October 2010, killed off its webOS ...

webOS, the highly appealing mobile operating system that Palm made official back in 2009, is becoming open source, HP has just announced.The platform was doomed almost from the start, as Palm did not have the necessary resources to support its development, and appeared to have been sent to ...

HP announced on Friday that it will open-source its webOS mobile operating system, which once upon a time powered smartphones and a single tablet. Even though the company said quite some time ago that it was killing off it webOS hardware efforts, HP CEO Meg Whitman said in an interview with ...

Hewlett-Packard on Friday announced that is is contributing its webOS platform to the open source software community. The company confirmed that it would not build any new webOS hardware for the time being, though it said it would continue to actively develop and support the operating system. “WebOS is the ...