HP, the same company who failed in the Tablet market the first time around, is ready to go at it again – but this time with Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 8. As you may remember, HP tried to enter the Tablet market in late 2010 with a new operating system called WebOS. Â WebOS was not met […]
Following various rumors during the week, HP has now confirmed that Jon Rubinstein, former head of Palm, Inc., has left the company. Rubinstein was CEO of Palm, Inc. before HP acquired the company back in 2010. Â In recent months, his role for the company has been reduced to R&D work. Before joining Palm, Rubinstein was […]
HP chief Meg Whitman and key board member Marc Andreessen in an interview Friday revived talk of webOS tablets following a decision to open-source the code. Despite quashing any near-term hopes, Andreessen explained to TechCrunch that HP saw not only other companies making webOS tablets but also HP itself. There might not be any hardware in 2012, Whitman added, but […]
In the most dramatic stay of execution since Robin Hood shot an arrow through Little John‘s noose, HP has decided that webOS will live on as open source. And there was much merriment and backslappery throughout the land! Also: good work, HP. This couldn’t have worked out better. The news came today after months of […]
