HP’s Open Source Release Plan for WebOS

Yesterday was a dark day for HP, as a company source disclosed that the technology corporation had decided to sack 275 members of staff in their webOS group. The move is part of the company's strategy to convert the operating...

Google takes a certain amount of pride over the fact that its mobile OS platform Android is open source, more flexible than other rivals in the market such as Apple's iOS and Microsoft's Windows Phone. However, if we believe what...

HP, staying committed to its promise of making WebOS a full-fledged open source platform, has made available some more components of the troubled OS platform to the open source community. The newly released components include the...

WebOS may be down, but certainly not dead, and it's just a matter of time till this troubled HP proprietary OS returns to haunt the arch rival Android and iOS - that's the sort of message HP's CEO Meg Whitman conveyed to the tech...

Jon Rubinstein - the senior vice president for Product Innovation at HP's Personal Systems Group - has decided to part ways with the company, it was revealed yesterday. Rubinstein, who had been Palm's CEO earlier, joined Hewlett...

THQ is set to make redundant a large portion of its publishing and admin team, though the five main internal studios won't be affected by these changes. The game publishing giant has been reshuffling its business recently in the...

Facebook announced on Wednesday that ever since the launch of ‘Subscribe' feature in November last year it has attracted thousands of journalists. According to the social media giant, journalists are increasingly using the...

On Wednesday HP declared that they plan to gift the webOS to the open source community in the month of September this year under the Apache license. Last year, HP dug the grave for TouchPad and announced in December that the...

HP has released a new software update for its officially discontinued HP TouchPad tablet. The update comes in the form of webOS 3.0.5 and brings with it bug fixes, and a few new features. These new features will improve...

The brain drain at Hewlett Packard continues with the news that former Apple veteran Chuq von Rospach, webOS developer relations community manager, is heading to pastures new. The news comes following HP's decision to release the...

Hewlett-Packard's CEO Meg Whitman has confirmed in an interview on Friday that the webOS, which is now going open source, will still be used by the company and in the larger touch screen tablet devices. Technology news website...

Hewlett Packard has donated webOS to the open source community as a part of its plans to reinvent itself. The operating system's fate was darkened when the company announced that it would no longer develop smartphones and tablets...

The Kindle Fire tablet's source code has been released by Amazon, enabling homebrew hackers to replace its built-in software with their own third-party Android builds. Priced at a relatively inexpensive $199 in the US, the...

Hewlett Packard's Todd Bradley, in charge of the now-reprieved Personal Systems Group, has rubbished rumours that webOS is dying out without committing to a reintroduction of his company's popular TouchPad tablet. In a televised...

Foursquare introduced Radar, an update to its existing iOS app that enables users to find out more about the place and surrounding they are visiting. The Radar will change Foursquare from being a check-in centric app to an app...