HP is making good on its announcement to open source WebOS. The process to bring the whole project open source begins today with the release of Enyo 2.0. Today HP released Enyo 2.0, the app framework for WebOS 3.0 on the TouchPad. The new open source version of Enyo will let developers create apps not more »

After several weeks of uncertainty, HP finally announced what it’s planning to do with webOS. As you may recall, former HP CEO Leo Apotheker was the person in charge when HP initially killed webOS hardware. It took HP’s new CEO Meg Whitman to make the ultimate decision on the operating system’s fate. Her decision is a mixed bag. webOS will still be around, but HP is making the software open source. At the same time, HP still has no immediate plans to create webOS-powered smartphones.

Google has open sourced Ice Cream Sandwich before the release of the Galaxy Nexus. This means any developers will be able to play with the inner workings of Google’s latest operating system. This also means that the very talented public will be able to step in when hardware manufacturers drop the ball. If your phone isn’t going to get Ice Cream Sandwich, hackers will almost certainly cook up a mod that will put your device on the same playing field as newer devices.

There’s a lot of argument over just how “open” Google is with it’s Android OS, and now Mozilla is doing something about it. To combat the part-open-part-closed Android Mozilla will be creating it’s own mobile OS for smartphones and tablets currently named Boot to Gecko (B2G). Boot to Gecko will use the Gecko engine that more »

At Google I/O the next version of Android was officially announced. The next version of Google’s mobile OS will be called Ice Cream Sandwich, and it will bring together Google’s Android tablets and smartphones later this year. The goal wit Ice Cream Sandwich is to bring some fo the Honeycomb features over to smartphones to more »

Hackers will have to wait a while before making their own custom versions of Honeycomb. BussinessWeek is reporting that Google won’t release Honeycomb as open source for quite some time. As you’re probably aware, Honeycomb was designed specifically for tablets, and Google wants to keep it that way. Google isn’t sure Honeycomb will work on more »

Well, look what we have here. Proving once more that tablet is the new netbook – Ubuntu, more popularly known for their open-source netbook operating system is also diving into the crazy tablet pool. High-res image of Ubuntu’s upcoming tablet, dubbed Tenq P07 have just leaked out. If the idea of having a tablet running more »

Today Boxee held an event where it made two big announcements: the Boxee Box and the beta of the software. We already knew that the event would feature these two announcements, but now we’re able to actually see them. The results look to be quite impressive, especially coming from an open-source platform that started about more »

After a few months of speculation, Google today finally decided to show us just what Chrome OS is going to be. Contrary to what some were hoping, there is no real beta to be had as of now, and Google doesn’t expect to have one for another year. What we do get today, is an more »

There’s a good chance this scenario has happened to you before: you just hear about something or are asked about something that you’re not sure about. You don’t have Internet access, but you know once you have it, Wikipedia will most likely be able to answer your question. Now you don’t have to wait until more »