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LG to License HP IP, Integrate webOS Technology into Next-Generation Devices SEOUL, Korea and PALO ALTO, Calif., Feb. 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- LG Electronics Inc. has acquired the webOS operating system technology from HP, the companies announced today. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110203/CG42292LOGO-d) To support its next-generation Smart TV technology, LG has entered into a definitive agreement with HP to acquire the source code, associated documentation,...

April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Late last year, computer giant Hewlett Packard (HP) promised to make webOS, its mobile operating system, an open source supported platform. On Friday, HP launched the beta release. The final version is expected to be released at the end of September. HP's short-lived Touchpad tablet and Palm Pre devices ran on the webOS platform. The company has dropped any plans to build consumer products using webOS, but has continued to keep its...

redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Hewlett-Packard Co. is rebranding WebOS, the mobile software it gained in its $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm two years ago, as a wholly owned subsidiary dubbed Gram, according to a leaked memo that appeared on WebOS Nation. “We are no longer a consumer hardware brand, we are a different company with a focus on software, user experience, cloud, engineering and partnering,” wrote Martin Risau, a senior vice president at HP, in...

NEW ORLEANS, July 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Blackboard Inc. today announced an option to let students and faculty directly purchase its mobile learning application, adding a new way for users to get access to the apps without requiring an investment by their institution. Beginning in September, users worldwide will be able to download Blackboard Mobile(TM) Learn from the App Store and on Google Play, search for their school, and get access to their courses and organizations for an...

Worksoft’s Next-Generation Test Automation Extended to Any Mobile Device or Application Orlando, FL (PRWEB) June 04, 2012 Worksoft®, a leading provider of test automation solutions for SAP® solutions and the “ecosystem” of software that surrounds it, today announced a worldwide partnership with Keynote Systems (Nasdaq:KEYN) subsidiary, Keynote DeviceAnywhere ®, the industry’s only true enterprise-class, cloud-based platform for testing the functionality, performance...

HP announced this week that their WebOS mobile operating system has become available as open source software. The main product, known as WebOS 1.0, will be released in September, according to Slashgear.com. The development environment called Enyo has already been released under the Apache 2.0 license. Enyo allows developers to create Open WebOS applications that work independently of whichever web browser that is being used, meaning WebKit is not necessary. Enyo also opens up WebOS to...

Hewlett-Packard (HP) has announced plans to make the WebOS software code available under an open-source license, allowing other developers to alter it and release their own versions of the operating system for sale. According to Aaron Ricadela of Bloomberg, the Palo Alto, California-based company made the announcement on Saturday. Ricadela says that the move is an attempt to get "outside developers to embrace the struggling operating system it acquired in last year’s $1.2 billion...

EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Nov. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- To give businesses the widest possible choice of platforms for quickly creating productive new software and mobile apps that work right the first time, iRise(®) announced today that it has released a Mac-based beta version of its popular visualization and prototyping software. Meeting the increasingly high expectations for business software created by the "consumerization of IT," the new software--iRise Studio for the...

World's Largest Newsstand Gives $25 Shopping Perk To All New Registrants, On Any Device, Through March 2012 Across Selection of 5,000+ Magazines SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Zinio, the world's largest and most popular magazine marketplace, is now available on Amazon's Kindle Fire. Debuting #1 in free magazines in the Amazon Appstore, Zinio is now available on more tablet devices than any other newsstand or magazine reader, including on the iPad, ASUS...

Hewlett-Packard on Thursday said it is abandoning plans to ditch its PC business after reviewing a proposal from former CEO Leo Apotheker -- a proposal that could have cost the company billions of dollars in expenses and lost revenue. The move to not spin off its PC business comes thanks to HP’s new CEO Meg Whitman, who vowed to keep the business intact and to keep selling personal computers. Whitman, the former chief executive of eBay, took over at HP after Apotheker was forced out for...