Apparently it’s nostalgia week in the mobile tech world. Ars Technica decided to take a trip down memory lane by remembering the Apple Newton 30 years after Apple announced its first handheld. While the Newton was widely considered a flop, maybe it was just ahead of time. We certainly now live in a world where […]
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LG will license webOS for use on third-party smart TVs (It’s come a long way from the Palm days)
1 Comment on LG will license webOS for use on third-party smart TVs (It’s come a long way from the Palm days)WebOS is an operating system that was originally developed by Palm for smartphones, acquired by HP for use on tablets as well as phones, and when that turned out to be a flop, HP sold its webOS assets to LG, which uses it for smart TVs and other smart home products. Now LG plans to […]
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webOS rises from the ashes (again) as LuneOS: open source operating system for phones and tablets
4 Comments on webOS rises from the ashes (again) as LuneOS: open source operating system for phones and tabletsThe operating system that once powered devices like the Palm Pre and the HP TouchPad is getting another crack at life. A group of developers have taken the source code HP released a few years ago and turned it into something new(ish) called LuneOS. While the software is still very much a work in progress, […]