WebOS

LG Electronics said today it has released its non-fungible token (NFT) platform LG Art Lab, which lets users discover, buy, sell and trade NFTs on LG’s smart TVs. The announcement…

LG Electronics launches NFT platform that lets users buy and sell digital artwork

Just ahead of the U.S. Thanksgiving holidays, TikTok is expanding its footprint in the living room. The company earlier this month launched its TV app in North America in partnership…

TikTok brings its TV app to more devices across the US and Canada

Netflix has a tradition, in practice since 2015, of annually proclaiming which TVs, of all the TVs in the land, are best suited to serving you its content. The streaming…

Netflix reveals the top TVs it thinks you should use to binge watch in 2019

Palm’s smartphone return appears to still be on track for 2018. Last year, an executive at TCL confirmed that the dearly departed mobile brand would be making a comeback as…

Palm-branded smartphones could return this year

At the unveiling of Apple’s new flagship smartphone yesterday, the iPhone X, CEO Tim Cook said it was something the company’s staff had been working on for a decade. The…

The iPhone X reveals why Tim Cook was so mad about Palm

Soon we’ll all be mumbling to everything in our homes, calling up microwave popcorn and vacuum cleanings like befuddled Scotties in the Voyage Home. Until then Dish is giving us…

Dish’s $30 remote control will listen when you talk

LG has officially announced the Watch Urbane and the Watch Urbane LTE, two handsome wearables that they had previously announced at the end of February. Why should you care? Well,…

WebOS Shambles Back From The Grave In LG’s Latest Smartwatch

LG’s putting webOS to good use – as the basis for its new smart TV platform. The operating system has taken many turns in its long and varied history, starting…

WebOS Design Lead Takes Us Through LG’s New Smart TV Platform Ambitions

We need to face facts: WebOS is dead. Barring the unwavering support of the enthusiast community, the former mobile OS will never become a commercial product and, LG investment or…

Stop Trying To Make WebOS Happen. It’s Not Going To Happen

Troubled operating system webOS isn’t defunct yet. According to CNET, LG just acquired software, licenses and the team working on webOS from HP. LG plans to implement it in its…

Remember webOS? LG Acquires webOS From HP, But Only Plans To Use It In Smart TVs

HP is hiring 50 developers for the WebOS platform, marking a new turn for the company’s troubled mobile market play. The news comes as HP continues its effort to make…

Fulfilling Open Source Promise – HP Is Hiring 50+ Developers For WebOS

Gone are the days of HP’s TouchPad and Palm ambitions, but HP is moving ahead with its plans to make webOS, it beleaguered mobile operating system, live on as open-source…

HP Launches The Beta Release Of Open WebOS

Ever since HP killed off webOS hardware, the fate of the webOS GBU (general business unit) was as yet unknown. But according to a flyer that has floated out of…

HP Spins Off webOS Into A Brand New Company Called Gram; Mission Unknown

It looks like the webOS contingent at HP isn’t done losing people. HP laid off 275 webOS employees back in February shortly after they announced their plans for the Open…

Google Nabs Key Members Of HP’s Enyo Team, But Open WebOS Is Still “On Schedule”

It seems like ages ago that HP announced that webOS would continue to live on as an open source project, probably because they’ve been awfully quiet on the subject since…

HP Announces Open webOS 1.0, Outlines Release Schedule

Hindsight, as they say, is 20/20 and Brian X Chen has a great tick-tock detailing the initial fall – and continuing fall – of WebOS. The interviews are quite telling,…

Palm Software Director: “We Just Weren’t Able To Execute”

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…

In An Internal HP Email, Meg Whitman Assures webOS’ Best Days Are Still Ahead

Well, there we have it. After weeks of deliberation, HP CEO Meg Whitman has just announced to all of the company’s employees that HP will make webOS’s underlying code available…

HP To Keep webOS Alive By Making It Open Source

We knew that HP’s gamble on webOS was an expensive one, but thanks to the company’s Q4 and full-year financials, we’re finally getting a feel for just how dearly the…

HP’s Failed webOS Experiment Cost Them $3.3 Billion, But What’s Next?

The Kindle Fire announcement set the interwebs ablaze as Amazon burst into the tablet scene. But the retailer-turned-CE player might be looking to go a different way in the future.…

Report: HP Still Looking To Offload Palm, Amazon Named As Top Contender

Regardless of your thoughts on what OS should be used on HP’s TouchPad, work on getting a fully-featured version of Android up and running continues unabated. There’s been a lot…

Android TouchPad Project Finally Gets Working Touch Screens

You’re excused if you didn’t notice a pair of memos leaked to PreCentral this weekend. It was a holiday and, more important, neither of them particularly matter. They involved HP’s…

It’s Official: WebOS Is Divorcing From Palm’s Hardware

The future of webOS is a little less uncertain now that Samsung’s CEO, Choi Gee Sung, grabbed rumors of buying HP’s webOS business by the cuff, laughed in its face…

Samsung CEO, “We Don’t Want HP’s Garbage” — Or Something Like That

When HP decided to kill off webOS, most people were more concerned with who would snatch up the PC business that went tumbling down the trash chute alongside it. A…

Samsung May Buy webOS, Recruits Former HP Exec

On the heels of the HP’s first and likely last webOS fire sale, word has come from across the pond thatthey’re also deeply discounting the cost of the newly-launched Pre…

HP Pre 3 Will Never Come To US, But It’s Crazy Cheap In Europe

In the aftermath of HP’s decision to axe all WebOS products, the question for many a developer is “what’s next?” While I’m sure a few WebOS diehards will continue to…

Microsoft Wooing WebOS Developers With Free Phones And Training
Media & Entertainment

HP To Apple: You Win.

5:50 pm PDT • August 18, 2011

As I write this, I’m sitting in a cafe. Around me, there are five people on laptops — four of them are MacBooks. Four other people are using tablets —…

HP To Apple: You Win.

This morning, HP admitted failure. After spending $1.2 billion to acquire Palm, they announced that they were killing off the development of all smartphones and tablets running Palm’s webOS platform…

Okay HP, Let’s Make Some Lemonade

HP stated from the start that it planned on putting webOS in more than just smartphones and tablets. It foresaw a time when webOS would run printers, netbooks, and the…

HP Looking To Appliances, Autos To Grow And Save webOS
Hardware

The Lonesome Death Of WebOS

10:30 am PDT • August 9, 2011

I’d been hoping I wouldn’t have to say this a second time, but here we go again: WebOS is reaching a critical failure point and I doubt the technology will…

The Lonesome Death Of WebOS