HP announced recently that it would release its webOS mobile operating system as open source software. Now the company is providing a roadmap. The goal is to release the first open souce version of webOS by September, 2012. Along the way the company will start using a standard Linux kernel instead of a custom kernel, update the development tools for…

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The first public build of Google Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich is now available for the HP TouchPad. The tablet originally shipped with HP’s webOS software, but hackers have been installing Google Android on the TouchPad for months. Up until recently, only Android 2.3 Gingerbread was available for the tablet, but now the CyanogenMod team has released CyanogenMod 9 Alpha…

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Update: It’s now possible to install an early (buggy) version of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich on the TouchPad with CyanogenMod 9. We’ve posted step-by-step instructions.  The first official alpha or beta release of CyanogenMod 9 for the HP TouchPad should be available any day now, but it turns out the CyanogenMod team isn’t the only group of developers porting…

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HP has rolled out a software update for the HP TouchPad tablet. WebOS 3.0.5 includes a handful of new features, but nothing truly spectacular: Support for HTTP live streaming Alert when video quality could be low due to network issues Improved web video stability Toggle that lets you enable or disable auto-correction Option to insert a period when you tap…

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HP never got around to releasing the TouchPad Go before discontinuing its webOS hardware division this summer. But the company did produce a handful of prototypes of the HP TouchPad’s little sibling, and the folks at webOS Nation managed to get their hands on one. They’ve posted a detailed review of the tablet. It paints a portrait of a pretty…

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Before hackers figured out how to install Google Android on the HP TouchPad, people were using the 9.7 inch tablet to run Ubuntu Linux… sort of. The discontinued tablet actually shipped with HP’s webOS software preloaded and early attempts to run Linux didn’t boot Linux instead of webOS. They basically let you run Ubuntu alongside Android and run Ubuntu apps without…

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Update: CyanogenMod 9 Alpha 0 is now available — and we have detailed instructions on installing this (buggy) version of Android 4.0 on the HP TouchPad.  The CyanogenMod has released an updated version of Google Android for the HP TouchPad. No, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich isn’t ready for prime time yet, but CyanogenMod 7 Alpha 3.5 brings a few…

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There’s a new version of Google Android available for the HP TouchPad. While people have been happily loading CyanogenMod 7 on the HP tablet for the past few months, you can also now install a custom ROM based on MIUI. The HP TouchPad ships with webOS software, but installing Android allows you to run thousands of apps designed for Google’s…

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HP gave shoppers one more chance to pick up TouchPad tablets at fire sale prices this weekend when the company offered refurbished tablets through its eBay store. 16GB TouchPads were priced at $99 each, while 32GB models ran $149. But a few seconds after the tablets went on sale at 6:00PM Central Time on Sunday, December 11th, shoppers started to…

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HP is offering a limited number of refurbished HP TouchPad tablet on eBay for $99 and up starting at 6:00 PM Central Time on December 11th, 2011. The tablet has a 9.7 inch, 1024 x 768 pixel display, a 1.2 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon dual core processor, and webOS 3.0 operating system. The TouchPad was released this summer and then canceled…

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Now that HP has announced that webOS is going open source, CEO Meg Whitman says the company is looking at releasing new webOS hardware. No plans have been finalized yet, but Whitman tells The Verge and TechCrunch that tablets are still on the tablet, but HP is likely pulling out of the webOS smartphone business. If HP does produce a…

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HP has announced that it will turn webOS into an open source project. The company paid $1.2 billion to acquire Palm and its webOS mobile operating system last year, and sunk billions of additional dollars into developing webOS smartphones and tablets before killing the hardware division this summer. Now HP is hoping to keep webOS alive by making it open…

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