It’s a sad day for the WebOS family. Former CEO of Palm, Jon Rubinstein, has left HP. In 2007 Jon joined Palm and led development for WebOS and the Palm Pre. In 2009 he bacame CEO of Palm, shortly after the release of the Pre. Just a short time ago HP purchased Palm and Jon [...]

You didn’t think HP forgot about WebOS did you? Okay maybe you did, but they are back with announcements today to remind you that they haven’t. HP is changing a few things to make it easier to open source WebOS. The biggest of those changes is switching to a Linux kernel instead of using their [...]

It’s common sense that once you buy something it immediately goes down in value. In the fact the moment you drive a brand new car off the lot it’s value plummets. Apparently no one told HP this is how things work. A report from VentrueBeat says HP wanted to recoup their purchase cost for WebOS, which by the [...]

The Pre 3 is the unicorn of the smartphone world. It was shown off by HP with much fanfare, but then never actually came to market in the U.S. It’s a shame, too, because the Pre 3 is what the Pre should have been all along. Well if you’ve managed to get your hands on [...]

Well here’s something you probably thought you would never see. It seems someone has semi-successfully hacked WebOS onto a Evo 3D. The person responsible for this feat is actually WebOS internals developer Ryan Hope. Judging by the pictures it looks like his “proof of concept” is up and working. It’s hard to tell without a [...]

HP has thought long and hard about the future of WebOS. After months of debate Meg Whitman and company have finally decided on a solution. That solution is open source. HP has announced that they will be open sourcing WebOS, and they plan on being an “active participant and investor in the project.” This is [...]

Some much needed improvements are coming to WebOS in the very near future in the form of WebOS 1.4. Come February, those upgrading to WebOS 1.4 will enjoy the delight of Flash 10.1 pre-installed and the ability to video record. Palm is promising other improvements ranging from more efficient processing power and battery life improvements [...]

When you’re not a developer and you think of the keynote speech at a Developer Conference you only think of one word: booooring. But that was not the case at AT&T’s Developer conference, at least if you’re a WebOS fan, since Ralph De La Vega announced the carrier would be launching TWO WebOS devices in [...]

Owners of the Sprint Palm Pre and Palm Pixi have a nice firmward update awaiting them. Palm published the news today, announcing the sole but virtuous purpose of the update is to fix a Microsoft Exchange bug that has been causing turmoil for calendar users. More specifically: This release fixes an issue in which the [...]

Uhoh… this isn’t good. For quite awhile, WebOS had more momentum than any mobile OS, including Android. Now it appears that WebOS is stalling and Android is furiously racing, surpassing WebOS and every other mobile OS except for iPhone when it comes to mindshare. Just, wow. Palm has a chance to regain momentum for WebOS [...]