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webOS has been a platform on life support for some time now. As a result, parent company HP is in the process of trying to figure out how it can keep the mobile operating system relevant with an open source program. The computer maker stated that it would be an “active participant and investor in…
HP has finally launched Open webOS, allowing interested developers to try out their skills on the old-new platform. The company released Open webOS 1.0 with core browser and e-mail apps, the Enyo 2.0 framework and all the drivers and middleware required to make the OS work on different devices. To prove this point, HP ported…
It’s no secret that HP purchasing Palm was a disaster. The computer hardware company got in way over its head with trying to turnaround a struggling phone maker. It seemed like HP came with one bad idea after another during a time where it had changed CEOs like the weather. A lack of direction caused…
You guys remember webOS, right? Well, the flatlined mobile operating system is ready to show some new life, as its parent company HP has announced the beta release of the open webOS. Not too long ago, we learned of HP’s plan to snub legacy devices under its new open mobile platform initiative for developers. HP…
Things just continue to get worse for Research in Motion, as another popular app-maker has decided to no longer support BlackBerry OS. The New York Times, you’ve heard of them, right? Well, the wildly popular news publication has decided to not only pull the plug on all future support of its mobile application for BlackBerry,…
Big changes may be coming to the open source version of webOS. A rumor from The Verge suggests the team that’s been working on Enyo will leave HP and join Google. The change is expected to happen as early as next week. Enyo is the underlying JavaScript framework for the webOS platform. After former HP CEO Leo…
Nokia for the past year or so has been on a crusade to dig the company out of irrelevancy in today’s super competitive mobile business. The Finnish-based phone maker teamed up with Microsoft to jazz things up on the operating system, shifting attention slightly away from its own OS Symbian. Now the company has its…
Third time’s a charm? HP CEO Meg Whitman believes that webOS can still triumph over the “fragmented” Android and the “closed” iOS but she remained vague about what role the platform will play for HP moving forward. WebOS’ story is one of unfulfilled potential, as it debuted with Palm a few years ago during CES…
Former Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein is leaving HP and he leaves a tantalizing legacy of unfulfilled potential with webOS. Rubinstein said he’s going to take a “well deserved break” for a while but I wouldn’t be surprised to see him pop up at another major mobile company in the not-too-distant future (Microsoft could use him).…
HP announced on Wednesday that, starting today, it’s making part of webOS available to the open source community. Each month, HP will release major portions of webOS, a few pieces at a time, until the entire code base is made public. HP expects to release the full code base by September and is calling the final release Open webOS 1.0. You can see the release schedule at the bottom of this…