In a shock announcement yesterday HP announced that it is to cease production of webOS devices such as the TouchPad and that it may consider a sale of spin-off or its PC group. What's gone wrong ...

And that WebOS unit will cost HP some dough to discontinue. HP will also spin off its PC unit. HP said that it will take a hit to fiscal 2011 earnings of $1.16 a share to $1.23 a share as it ...

HP also revealed plans to put webOS into future versions of its personal computers - a decision that lets HP more fully control the software that goes into its machines, but which has the ...

If anything, the twin announcements by PC group chief Todd Bradley and strategy chief Shane Robison confirm that WebOS devices are dead at HP. Robison’s statement is also very clear that his ...

Prior to buying Palm last summer, HP joined Microsoft on stage to launch the "Slate PC" running Windows 7 at the beginning of 2010, a product which was also a colossal failure for HP. HP made no ...

HP purchased Palm in April 2010 in a $1.2 billion acquisition ... a rumor that it will spin off all or part of its personal computer business and purchase U.K.-based software company Autonomy ...

However, Palm also gives HP gets a new opportunity to hurt Apple ... away from rivals like Apple and Research in Motion. Now computer makers like H-P and Dell are seeking to make bigger inroads ...

It turns out HP plans to bring the webOS mobile operating system to computers, too. Previously appearing on Palm Pre and Palm Pixi phones, webOS has been widely acknowledged as one of the best ...

HP on Wednesday finally unveiled its long-expected webOS-powered HP TouchPad tablet PC together with a pair of webOS-powered smartphones, setting in motion a new level of competition with Apple ...

The company hopes to increase the adoption of webOS, both by PC users and by independent developers who create applications for PCs and mobile gadgets. HP, the world’s largest PC maker ...

And now HP says it even plans to bring webOS to the PC. It’s not entirely clear at the moment if we’re talking about desktop and laptop computers running webOS as their only operating system.

And that the webOS unit will cost HP some dough to discontinue. HP will also spin off its PC unit. HP said that it will take a hit to fiscal 2011 earnings of US$1.16 a share to US$1.23 a share as ...