Palm emerged in the 1990s as one of the innovative champions of mobile computing. The company practically defined the handheld computer form-factor and contributed many technical concepts and user ...

Hewlett-Packard will discontinue operations for devices running on WebOS. Despite critical praise, the WebOS software just couldn't compete in the crowded market for smartphone operating systems.

It’s ironic that perhaps the best commentary on the technology industry is a line written 160 years ago by the Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier: “For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest ...

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.

In a case of too little, too late, HP said it felt the open-source route was the best one for WebOS. The company is gambling that the operating system will take off on its own. It's a bad bet. Past ...

HP announced Thursday that it will discontinue its WebOS line of devices, which includes the HP Veer 4G, the HP TouchPad, and the yet-to-be-released HP Pre 3 smartphone. The death of WebOS devices is ...