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Former Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein has reportedly resigned from Hewlett-Packard, according to a report from AllThingsD. Although the move is not entirely unexpected, it still makes a forlorn footnote for the legacy of the once-mighty Palm, which helped pioneer the PDA and smartphone markets, placed a daring bet on an Internet-centric mobile operating system with webOS. According to the report, Rubinstein has no immediate plans, and his departure… Read More

Following yesterday's report that Amazon considered making a bid for Research in Motion, makers of the BlackBerry range of smartphones, it has now emerged both Microsoft and Nokia are interested in the Canadian company too. This would be a joint bid from the pair rather than two individual ones, showing just how strong the relationship is between the two companies. However the Wall Street Journal use of the phrase “flirted with the… Read More

It seems as though we have a new HP and webOS rumor every month,  this month’s rumor has a slightly different spin than past rumors. Rueters is reporting that HP is seriously looking into selling the mobile operating system, but for quite a bit less than it originally paid for it. Usually we hear about a rumor of a company that might want to buy webOS from HP instead of HP trying to unload webOS. This is actually the first time that we have… Read More

As soon as HP announced in August it was ceasing development of webOS — leaving the HP TouchPad and Palm smartphones out in the cold — attention immediately focused on what other tech companies might be interested in licensing or acquiring webOS. Early speculation focused on the likes of Samsung, HTC, Sony, and even Intel, but a new report from VentureBeat indicates the most serious contender might be e-retailing giant Amazon — although other… Read More

Amazon is in advanced negotiations to purchase Palm from Hewlett-Packard, reports Venture Beat. According to a “well-placed source” who spoke with the publication, HP wants to shed the struggling smartphone brand quickly. HP purchased Palm in July of last year for about $1.2 billion. Palm makes the respected webOS operating system. Unfortunately, it's respected by a select few, and Palm has not found a way to sell its platform to the… Read More

It has been a rocky month for HP’s webOS platform. First HP shocks the mobile world by announcing that it will discontinue making hardware for webOS, and now it is laying off a large amount of webOS department employees. HP plans to fire up to 525 employees from the webOS division, and the layoffs could start as early as this week. When asked HP confirmed that layoffs were underway, but would not confirm the exact number of employees affected.… Read More

Here's an interesting rumor. DigiTimes reports that Samsung may purchase webOS from HP, which recently announced that it no longer plans to make webOS devices and wishes to sell its entire PC division. While it doesn't appear likely that Samsung wants HP's entire PC business, as it could actually hurt Samsung's profit margins on products like DRAM and touch panels, webOS is a lot more appealing. The Korean electronics… Read More

The TouchPad is rumored to be bombing at retail, but that isn't slowing down HP's plans for webOS. Much like Google's Android ambitions, HP is hoping to embed webOS in smart appliances, gadgets, cars, and just about anything else that has a screen. HP's new head of webOS, Stephen DeWitt spoke with the WSJ (via CNET) about the potential of the company's smartphone platform, noting that there is an “enormous… Read More

After disappointing initial reviews (and possibly sales) of its webOS TouchPad tablet, HP has decided to shake things up, moving the former CEO of Palm and current head of webOS, Jon Rubinstein, into its Personal Systems Group and replacing him with Stephen DeWitt, current head of the PSG. The Personal Systems Group is a fancy name for HP's PC & digital devices department in the Americas, which works on PCs, connected devices like… Read More

It's been a long time coming, but technology giant Hewlett-Packard has finally revealed its entry into the consumer tablet marketplace, announcing its much-anticipated HP TouchPad will go on sale to U.S. customers on July 1, with pre-orders available June 19. The TouchPad will be a bit unline other tablet devices on the market: it doesn't run Android or Apple's iOS, but instead is built on the webOS operating system that HP… Read More

There are currently two kinds of operating systems: those like Apple's iOS, which only runs on proprietary devices built by one company, and software platforms like Windows and Android that seek to be on as many devices by as many electronics makers as possible. Before today, we've considered HP's WebOS (originally Palm's WebOS before HP bought the company) to be more like BlackBerry OS and iOS in that HP planned to put… Read More

Technology giant Hewlett-Packard is finally getting into the business of launching smartphones running Palm's webOS: it's compact HP Veer 4G smartphone will be going on sale from AT&T on May 15 for $99.99, with a new two-year service agreement. The Veer is a departure from the growing footprint of smartphones, which have often focused on offering larger-and-larger touchscreens to tap into digital entertainment capabilities. The… Read More

Google's Android operating system leads the US smartphone market by a significant margin, according to a new study by comScore. Apple also saw a boost in customers, with the Verizon Wireless version of its iPhone 4 outselling all other smartphones in the month of February. Last November, handsets loaded with Android came in with the second largest share of the smartphone market, with 26 percent, according to comScore's count. That… Read More

Wildly popular mobile game Angry Birds is coming to even-more-popular social network, Facbook, reports AllFacebook. According to the Angry Birds Facebook page, the game will be launching on Facebook in a month's time. Angry Birds — which has been out for less than a year — has already surpassed more than 75 million downloads on mobile platforms, which inlcude devices running iOS, Android, Symbian and WebOS. And the game is said… Read More

In his first significant interview since taking the top job at technology giant Hewlett-Packard, HP CEO Leo Apotheker says he believes the company is very strong but has weaknesses that need to be addressed. One is expanding its businesses outside the United States market, but another is taking too much time to get its products to market. Speaking with the Wall Street Journal (subscription required), Apotheker enthused that HP is an… Read More