And so, the fate of webOS has once again been switched hands. From its creator, Palm, which was absorbed by HP, which now has been sold off with the required engineers, patents, and software to LG. It turns out that LG already has a plan for webOS, and that is to power the operating systems of their next line of smart TVs. Skott Ahn, LG’s president and chief technology officer, pointed out that “It creates a new path for LG to offer an intuitive user experience and internet services across a range of consumer electronics devices.” The webOS team will set up base in LG’s new Silicon Valley facilities to start off.
An exact price on the deal has not been released, nor has a release date for any upcoming LG tech that would make use of webOS.
Via: CNET
It’s official. Meg Whitmann has saved webOS by cutting the losses and making it open-source. New tablets could be produced, along with software upgrades, however smartphones are probably not in the cards. In an exclusive interview with The Verge, Meg Whittman stated, “The answer to that is yes but what I can’t tell you is whether that will be in 2012 or not,” and that “But we will use webOS in new hardware, but it’s just going to take us a little longer to reorganize the team in a quite different direction than we’ve been taking it in the past.” Is this good news? Yes. Was it expected? No. Do I label this as “FTW’?
First of all, the update contains a Camera for Touchpad app, the ability to answer calls from non-webOS phones, a “streamlined” Bluetooth experience (especially with keyboards), support for Ogg Vorbis music files, and online / offline messaging status support, and what HP calls “better performance” and “user interface improvements,” as well as a number of other enhancements and “more robust Skype video calling”. So, they basically made the Touchpad, much, much better. Via:
What you’re looking at above is the TouchPad Go — in other words, a 7-inch Touchpad. Since HP has killed off webOS for the meantime however, we will not know of this 7-inch webOS powerhouse. Purported specs included a 1.5GHz Snapdragon dual-core processor, a rear-facing camera with flash, front-facing cam, 16GB storage and a 4:3 aspect ratio for the 7-inch screen with a resolution of 1024×768, like the 9.7-inch Touchpad. However, what was going to be the most interesting about this little prototype is the NFC chip that is seemingly included. Oh well. Via: 
