Compare Tizen, Google TV, and webOS to find the best smart TV OS. Learn key features, app support, and smart home integration ...

The mobile operating system that Hewlett-Packard plans to shelve finds a new luster with discount sales and bids to lure application developers. Jay Greene, a CNET senior writer, works from Seattle ...

LG's brand-new smart platform, webOS, wasn't initially intended for televisions. In a previous life, webOS was Palm's (and then HP's) last attempt at a mobile operating system, and it was... average.

What would have been required for WebOS and HP's WebOS devices to be successful? A week after the fire sale, we have people snatching up $99 TouchPads. This is obviously a completely off-the-wall case ...

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, ...

Two and a half years ago, Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPhone and said that its software was five years ahead of the competition; and since then, the rest of the industry has been busy playing ...

Hey, Hewlett-Packard, you’re a real head-scratcher. Just 16 months ago you promise to change the mobile world by acquiring WebOS. Now, you’ve raised the white flag on that $1.2 billion buy. It’s a lot ...

The company that used to be Palm comes with a cache of thousands of patents. This isn’t just any portfolio filed with minor process technolgies; the argument could be made that Palm invented the ...

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One thing I've learned covering open source for four years here is that it is often the business model of last resort. "We're going open source" can be the same thing as a publication saying "we're ...

It looks like we could find out what HP plans to do with webOS some time later today, as according to a recent report by The Next Web, HP’s CEO Meg Whitman has reportedly called a meeting for today, ...

To my knowledge, Palm's WebOS API is in Javascript. WebOS runs on top of the Linux kernel, uses a bunch of GNU utilities and Webkit. What is to keep someone, like Google, from making a similar web ...