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....

After months of waiting, webOS fans finally have a clear answer from HP as to what is happening to their beloved platform. Well, sort of. At today’s “all hands on deck” meeting HP CEO, Meg Whitman, announced that HP will be open sourcing the core webOS source code to everyone from “homebrew developers to a manufacturers”. Essentially, HP is turning webOS into Android, or, a much prettier Android. More specifically, Meg announced a few key...

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...