WebOS News

Hewlett-Packard is dropping its TouchPad price and may be considering a smaller screen for a new TouchPad Go version of the device, both steps that could lure users to try the company's WebOS system.

Hewlett-Packard is offering a $100 price cut on the TouchPad this weekend, in an attempt to spur lackluster sales of its WebOS tablet.

HP's first WebOS-based tablet, the TouchPad, will be available in the U.S. from July 1, bringing a fourth platform contender to the tablet wars that could shake up the market.

Hewlett-Packard CEO Leo Apotheker today confirmed that the TouchPad will launch in June, throwing its hat into the tablet arena to do battle with the iPad 2.

Hewlett-Packard today unveiled the TouchPad, its new WebOS-based tablet, which the company aims to compete with Apple's iPad.

Hewlett-Packard sent out invitations for an event involving its new WebOS mobile operating system, which many expect to be the unveiling of its long-awaited "PalmPad" tablet, on February 9 in San Francisco.

Hewlett-Packard is scrapping plans for Android-based tablets, in favor of using WebOS, which it acquired when it bought Palm last April.

Hewlett-Packard said it is on track to release tablet computers running Windows 7 from Microsoft and WebOS from Palm later this fall, as the computer giant looks to challenge Apple's iPad in the nascent market.

Hewlett-Packard is developing a new tablet computer, code-named "Hurricane," running newly acquired handset maker Palm's WebOS mobile operating system, people familiar with the matter said.