Jon Rubinstein, former CEO of Palm, has left HP. Rubinstein became part of the company when H P bought Palm, and was head fo the WebOS division until last July. Rubinstein had a commitment to HP or 12 to 24 months, which he completed. His departure comes just a day after HP announced its schedule more »

Last month HP said it would be open sourcing WebOS. Today we have a timetable as to when that’ll happen. HP has announced that it plans to have Open WebOS 1.0 out by September of this year. HP plans to have major releases almost every month leading up tot he Open WebOS Beta in August more »

We all know the story of WebOS, from the Palm Pre to the sale to HP and the eventual open-sourcing of the OS it hasn’t been a perfect journey. According to some, however, WebOS was doomed before Palm put out the first Pre on Sprint back in the Summer of 2009. According to a source more »

Back in April 2010 HP purchased Palm for $1.2 billion, and saw a great future for WebOS. Now we learn that after killing all WebOS devices HP tried to sell off Palm for the same $1.2 billion. According to sources talking to VentureBeat, HP met with a number of companies this year to try and more »

We sort of knew that this date was coming, you remember, the day when HP finally announces whether or not they are going to be keeping, selling or simply killing off webOS. That being said, we certainly do not think they will be doing the latter, but then again having not said all that much more »

HP CEO Meg Whitman will announce the fate of the fledgling WebOS in the next two weeks. WebOS has been languishing in limbo since the TouchPad was discontinued shortly after it’s release this past summer. Most of us never even had a chance to see the last WebOS flagship smartphone, the Pre 3 before it more »

HP apparently had a meeting about the fate of webOS last evening and well, it looks like nothing has really changed. Bottom line here, it appears that HP CEO Meg Whitman is not quite ready to make anything official. In other words, webOS is still in limbo. Of course, we sort of think that it more »

While most of us were never able to even see a Pre 3 in person, the FCC was able to handle the doomed phone, and even give it a proper teardown. From the FCC’s teardown we now know that the Pre 3 was actually heading for a Verizon release in the US, if it ever more »

While we are still not all that certain as to what HP is planning to do with webOS, especially considering they have since killed off the hardware devices that once ran the operating system, however some reports are suggesting that HP may be having an all-hands meeting today to decide the fate. The potential outcomes more »

Ever since HP announced it was done with webOS on mobile devices, it was only a matter of time before Palm employees started to get let go. It appears HP has no real use for Palm anymore and is interested in selling the Palm division sooner rather than later. This is according to sources who tipped off VentureBeat. The sources are also saying Amazon is in the running to acquire Palm. Not only that, but Amazon is reportedly the leading candidate at the moment.