Published on May,25 2012 - by Forbes
...et ? the forerunner of our wirelessly connected smartphones ? Palm. But that became an enormous fiasco as its WebOS products were late to market, didn?t work well and were wholly uncompetitive with superior solutions fr...
Published on May,24 2012 - by Agence France Presse
...wn one percent.Last year, HP announced it was discontinuing the TouchPad, a tablet computer powered by its own webOS software, just seven weeks after it hit the market dominated by Apple's iPad.HP also last year said it ...
Published on May,23 2012 - by Agence France Presse
...wn one percent.Last year, HP announced it was discontinuing the TouchPad, a tablet computer powered by its own webOS software, just seven weeks after it hit the market dominated by Apple's iPad.HP also last year said it ...
Published on April,04 2012 - by The Los Angeles Times
...his plan to spin off the PC operations. She streamlined several business units and has pledged to release HP's WebOS mobile operating system as open-source software by fall. Whitman has also chipped away at the notorious...
Published on April,02 2012 - by Forbes
...r smartphones and tablets. Unfortunately for HP, they had what they needed for the future, but jettisoned the webOS hardware business at the end of last year and wrote off $3.3B after lackluster HP TouchPad acceptance a...
Published on April,01 2012 - by Forbes
...r smartphones and tablets. Unfortunately for HP, they had what they needed for the future, but jettisoned the webOS hardware business at the end of last year and wrote off $3.3B after lackluster HP TouchPad acceptance a...
Published on April,01 2012 - by Forbes
...atform in a variety of new products. That effort failed, however, and HP instead announced it would transition webOS to an open source software development mode. Microsoft also had a huge lead in licensing its Windows Mo...
Published on March,23 2012 - by Forbes
... ?Synergy?. Devices even offered a cable-free inductive charging option. HP’s CEO even discussed integrating webOS onto all HP’s personal computers. I thought this was the right vision for HP, as owning an entire ecos...
Published on March,21 2012 - by Agence France Presse
...ion model on Friday.HP made a dismal initial foray into the tablet market last year with a TouchPad powered by webOS mobile operating system software it acquired as part of its $1.2 billion purchase of Palm in 2010.Citin...
Published on March,21 2012 - by The Los Angeles Times
..., the most high-profile being her decisions to keep the PC business instead of spinning it off and to make its WebOS available to the open-source community. Whitman said the combined printing and PC group was a "winning ...