Hewlett-Packard Co said on Monday it will sell the webOS operating system to South Korea's LG Electronics Inc, unloading the smartphone software it acquired through a $1.2 billion acquisition of ...

Hewlett-Packard Co said on Monday it will sell the webOS operating system to South Korea's LG Electronics Inc, unloading the smartphone software it acquired through a $1.2 billion acquisition of ...

LG, a South Korean electronics giant, has officially purchased the mobile operating system from HP, but not for smartphones. Instead, LG is buying WebOS for use on smart TVs.

WebOS marks the first new Palm operating system since 2002, when Palm OS 5 was released. The company span off its operating-system business as a subsidiary in 2003 and sold it to the Japanese ...

LG has completed a buyout of HP's WebOS operating system. The South Korean manufacturer now has complete control over the future development of the platform after acquiring its source code, all ...

HP used the operating system on its short-lived TouchPad device, which debuted in mid-2011 then disappeared weeks later. HP announced a new tablet, the US$169 Slate 7, on Sunday.

HP also identified a key responsibility for DeWitt: building a developer community. He will lead fully integrated, global developer and independent software vendor program to deliver new consumer and ...

Things look bleak for webOS since the future is very uncertain. HP is trying to woo other companies into licensing the operating system, but so far there is no takers.

True, it plunked down $1.2 billion a year ago to buy mobile-computing pioneer Palm and its excellent WebOS operating system. But then it announced that its first WebOS tablet, the TouchPad, wouldn ...

Hewlett-Packard Co. said Friday it would make its operating system for mobile devices, called webOS, available for anyone to use for free. The model, known as open source, means that any ...