Tag archive: webOs

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

It's been a bumpy week for RIM. On Sunday, the Canadian smartphone maker's co-CEOs tried their best to quietly resign and hand over the CEO position to their former Chief Operating Officer, Thorsten Heins. For months, investors and journalists have been calling for Research in Motion's co-CEOs, Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis — who have each taken turns running the company since it was founded in 1991 — to step… Read More

It's been quite a year. From the hype and eventual disappointment over the iPhone 5, rise of the hacker, digital corporate missteps, and the powerful role social media assumed, we look back on a few of the more poignant moments that shaped 2011.  The Facebook Revolutions spread throughout the Middle East In the late Winter and early Spring of 2011, a revolution that began in the Middle East and swept through Northern Africa and parts of… Read More

Earlier this week we got a look at what the future HP brand would look like—or at least could have looked like. Just after an image of the minimal-meets-modern take on the company’s logo leaked, an HP representative made sure we knew the futuristic rebranding won’t be coming to fruition. “In 2008, HP asked marketing agency Moving Brands to propose new ideas for various elements of HP’s brand identify, including fonts, graphics, and logos,” a… Read More

  At 7pm ET yesterday evening, the last of the HP TouchPads went on sale on HP's eBay store for the greatly-reduced price of $99 for the 16GB version, and $149 for the 32GB model. Within minutes, they were gone, according to a variety of reports. The demand for the super-cheap, now-discontinued tablet was so furious that it caused major performance issues for eBay, which in turn caused major headaches for some customers. Given the… Read More

So the fate of WebOS appears to have finally been decided by the powers that be at Hewlett-Packard. The mobile operating system, which the company bought from Palm in April last year for $1.2 billion, will be released to open source developers. Many had been speculating that, following its initial decision in August to discontinue WebOS development, and after the lay-off of employees working with WebOS, HP would scrap or sell off the OS. But… Read More

Hewlett-Packard’s TouchPad tablet is back on sale again – but this time only WebOS developers are being offered the chance to purchase it. Under HP’s Developer Device Program, the company is offering developers with coupons the opportunity to purchase up to two 32GB TouchPads at the same low price we saw when the device was sold off cheap to consumers in August: $149.99. According to HP’s website, it has received “more requests for coupons… 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

The dream of obtaining a $99 HP TouchPad is officially dead. Hewlett-Packard sent out notices today saying the company's supply of TouchPads is spent, and there will be no more shipments from the HP online store. “As you signed up for updates on the HP TouchPad, we wanted you to know that we are officially out of stock. Some retailers will have some stock available, but our online inventory is depleted,” the notice said. There may be a… Read More

Hewlett Packard will continue to produce tablet PCs, and they will be powered by the Windows 8 operating system, the company said during a call with market analysts on Thursday. The future of its webOS mobile OS remains uncertain.  “We’re at the beginning stages of a new segment,” said HP Chief Executive Meg Whitman. “I hardly think that we’re too late, the work we’re doing with Microsoft is extraordinarily compelling,… Read More

Hot on the heels of the announcement of Sony buying out Ericsson to own the phone company outright Sony makes a bombshell announcement. Howard Stringer, Sony’s president and CEO, said today “We’re phasing out feature phones.” Stringer has yet to outline exactly how quickly the phasing out process will take. With smartphone prices dropping every day it seems as though it’s only a matter of time until every phone on the market will be a… 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

While arguably one of the best smartphone manufacturers in the market, and certainly one of the most successful, HTC has been taking flak from all sides, and by flak we mean its been getting sued by Apple and strong-armed into patent deals with Microsoft. These attacks stem from its use of Google's open source Android operating system. Though the OS has helped propel HTC to the top, these attacks threaten to greatly hurt the… Read More