Things take time to fade, and sometimes they come back.
There may yet be life in the realm of “WebOS,” the operating system developed by Palm and then taken over by Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) with the acquisition last year of Palm, only to be left in limbo this year as former HP CEO Leo Apotheker in August discontinued the development of devices based on WebOS.
The Register’s Tony Smith noted late yesterday that newly installed HP CEO Meg Whitman has committed herself to making an announcement of some kind about the fate of WebOS a couple weeks from the end of November, which would imply next week, I guess.
In a related development, TechCrunch’s Matt Burns yesterday quoted from an HP memo sent out recently (date is not specified) that states that the company will put its discontinued tablet, the “TouchPad,” on sale on eBay this weekend at a fire sale price of $99. Get them while they last, he advises, they’ll likely go quick, as sales are opened up to HP staff before the general public.
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