Today HP laid off 275 webOS employees, with most of them being engineers, though a few QA and business development bodies managed to get chopped, too. With HP essentially killing webOS by casting it aside as an “open source project” several months back, and further cementing the belief that the platform is essentially dead, it was only a matter of time until the company took the next step in cutting down the webOS team. Why, if the open source community is doing...

When you ask any normal (read: non-techie) on the street what are some of the biggest mobile platforms, you’ll hear two main answers: iPhone and “Droid”. BlackBerry will likely get a fair showing still while you might even hear “Palm” uttered a time or two. But for all intents and purposes, the only modern OS’ that are blowing everyone else away are Android and iOS. HP CEO Meg Whitman, however, thinks there’s still room for their...

If a new report by VentureBeat is accurate, it’s a glaring look at how disconnected from the outside world HP has become, and how much they are grasping at straws (if the multiple CEO swaps and running a somewhat successful — webOS at least had potential — mobile platform into the ground weren’t enough already). In said report, it is alleged that HP sought the same $1.2 asking price that the company originally paid to acquire webOS and Palm assets....

The long, toiled, and utterly depressing story of webOS over the last 6-10 months has played out in a gut wrenching slug fest online. Much to the dismay of many webOS aficionados, hope for any future for the aspiring mobile platform is all but gone. All that’s left is a slim chance that HP’s current new CEO, Meg Whitman, will save the fledging OS. While we still haven’t received any concrete timeline in the states, a French newspaper, “Le...

Two amazing mobile platforms have succumbed to the insurmountable forces of neglect and disinterest: WebOS and MeeGo. Both platforms had their strengths and weaknesses. What they shared, however, was a huge amount of potential. The only major fault of both was that the owner(s) dropped the ball. Whether it be poor resource management, lack of marketing, or fractured roadmap/schedule, may never be known. Ultimately we’re left with a single option: choose from one...