Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology. HP's decision to contribute webOS to the open source community represents, at the very least, a detour from the ...

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, ...

Hewlett-Packard (HP) has finally decided the fate of its WebOS software, choosing to convert the mobile operating system (OS) into an open source project with hopes that other hardware makers will ...

HP's decision to cut its $1.2 billion losses and open up WebOS was likely the only choice it had HP announced today plans to contribute WebOS and its Enyo application framework to the open source ...

HP has published the code of Enyo, the underlying JavaScript framework of the webOS platform. It is available from a public repository on GitHub and is distributed as open source software under the ...

LG announced yesterday that it would be acquiring webOS from HP to use in LG smart televisions. The company has inherited all of the rights to the source code for webOS, including documentation and ...

Hewlett-Packard has released an open source version of webOS that can be used on legacy TouchPad tablets, the Open webOS project team announced on Tuesday. The “Community Edition” enables users to ...

HP cut its losses last month and announced the company's webOS mobile operating system would move to an open source model. On Wednesday, HP released a roadmap detailing the open source future of webOS ...

HP announced on Wednesday that it plans to release the code behind webOS in September under the Apache License, Version 2.0. WebOS is the operating system developed by Palm that HP acquired in 2010 ...

LG’s smart TVs ship with an operating system called webOS, which is the latest version of an operating system that was developed by Palm to run on phones, acquired by HP to use with tablets, and ...

Hewlett-Packard has released an open source version of webOS that can be used on legacy TouchPad tablets, the Open webOS project team announced on Tuesday. The “Community Edition” enables users to ...

HP announced recently that it would release its webOS mobile operating system as open source software. Now the company is providing a roadmap. The goal is to release the first open souce version of ...