Another turn in the plot for HP (NYSE: HPQ) and its mobile assets: today a report emerged indicating that HP is looking sell off its mobile operating system WebOS—only a week after HP’s EVP Todd Bradley brushed off the idea of a sale as a “rumor.”

Another development in the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) versus Android patent story as the various cases work their way through the courts. Samsung has requested depositions for testimony from four key designers and inventors, including Apple’s SVP of industrial Jony Ive, as part of its defense the case that Apple has…

HP (NYSE: HPQ) may have resolved one major item on its agenda when it announced last week it would hold on to its PC division; but now it seems to have a new confusion to replace it: the fate of its mobile operating system, WebOS.

HP’s WebOS is up in the air and we now have a new player that apparently wants to catch it: Amazon, the upstart etailer that come to dominate the e-reader market and now wants to do the same in tablets with its Kindle Fire.

The mobile apps industry is suffering from download-milestone overkill. Developers and publishers boast about how many times their apps have been downloaded on the various app stores, while analysts and the store owners themselves use downloads as a key metric to gauge the success of those stores. While these figures…

HP (NYSE: HPQ) must be tiring of all the news about Apple’s strength in the tablet market, and trying to get its own name out in front: to coincide with the launch of its own TouchPad tablet in July, the company is taking matters into its own hands: it will…

When it comes to battling for smartphone share in China, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is right in there with Android OEMs and Nokia (NYSE: NOK), and its App Store is one of its key weapons. A report out today notes that China is Apple’s second-largest apps market after the U.S. But…

More numbers spelling out Android’s pole position in the smartphone market today in the U.S. Figures from comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) say that as of the end of February, a full one-third (33 percent) of all smartphone users in the U.S. were using Android-powered smartphones, as smartphone penetration in the market…

The iPad may be the biggest tablet game in town but it’s not the only one and *Time* Inc.‘s digital publishing strategy reflects it. The new Hewlett Packard (NYSE: HPQ) WebOS TouchPad tablet will launch with Time, Fortune, People and Sports Illustrated, the Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) publishing unit’s top…

HP (NYSE: HPQ) has ditched the Palm (NSDQ: PALM) brand and launched three new devices today on its updated HP WebOS platform: the TouchPad tablet, the diminutive Veer smartphone and the newest edition of their flagship phone, the Pre3. And in what might be the company’s boldest move yet since…

Smartphone usage has grown by an astounding 60 percent in the last year in the U.S., but the latest figures from comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) show that it’s a market that currently appears to be consolidating in the middle, with Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android the only two OS platforms to…

Some stats released today on smartphones that, for a change, don’t concern the number of devices shipped: Nielsen says 31 percent of U.S. consumers now have a smartphone, but penetration is significantly higher among certain racial groups. And while Android devices, iPhones and BlackBerries are still selling well, Microsoft’s Windows…

Have you been wondering about where Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) might go next with its device strategy, on the back of its success with the Kindle? One recent board appointment could provide a bit of insight. According to an SEC filing today, Jon Rubinstein, the former CEO of Palm (NSDQ: PALM)…

Mergers and acquisitions started to pick up in the first half of this year as financial markets started to improve, according to a report released by mergermarket, an independent research firm. In particular, it found that deal flow was the strongest in the technology, media and telecom sectors—mostly driven by…

All of the major smartphone platforms lost share to Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Android in a recent three-month period, even though they all gained subscribers due to the market’s overall growth.

So far this year, Android stands out most to developers with close to 60 percent of them having recently developed for the Google (NSDQ: GOOG) operating system. What’s more, Apple’s iOS now follows as the second most popular platform. The findings were produced by Vision Mobile on behalf of Telefonica…

David Temkin, VP-developer platform for Palm (NSDQ: PALM), has left to head mobile for AOL (NYSE: AOL). Temkin will report to Brad Garlinghouse, president of consumer applications, and, like him, will be based in AOL’s Mountain View office. But Garlinghouse’s internal announcement about the new hire stresses a broader role…

Here’s further proof that the buzz and hype in mobile is increasingly narrowing in on two mobile platforms: Android and iPhone. Gartner said in its smartphone report released today that when looking at the OS market in the first quarter, Android and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) were the only two vendors…

If anyone was hoping that Palm’s financial problems would lead to a less cluttered mobile operating system market—you are out of luck. HP (NYSE: HPQ) was resoundingly clear this afternoon during a conference call discussing its $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm. It intends on investing heavily in the webOS platform,…