The strange story of the webOS platform continues, with HP providing a few details on how the open sourcing will proceed. The company recently confirmed it will offer up the platform to open source, ...

In a case of too little, too late, HP said it felt the open-source route was the best one for WebOS. The company is gambling that the operating system will take off on its own. It's a bad bet. Past ...

Hewlett-Packard will discontinue operations for devices running on WebOS. Despite critical praise, the WebOS software just couldn't compete in the crowded market for smartphone operating systems.

HP just took to the wire and announced to the tech world that webOS will live on as an open source project. Shortly thereafter, Meg Whitman informed HP employees about the decision. The internal email ...

The ultimate fate of HP’s webOS mobile platform was finally revealed today. The company has announced plans to contribute its operating system to the open source software community. The move will open ...

HP’s WebOS team almost certainly had an idea that the company’s new tablet, the TouchPad, had very little chance of challenging Apple’s dominance in the tablet market, as the company’s webOS operating ...