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The Gadget Gurus Podcast Ep 141 – Hairy, Like Burt Reynolds

This week the Gurus talk Galaxy Nexus woes, webOS being open sourced, Twitter redesign, shared data plans and .XXX domains!!

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webOS Going the Open Source Route, Says HP

It has been up in the air on what the future of webOS was going to be, but today, HP has announced the platform will be open sourced. What this means is, webOS will be able to be installed on different hardware and other vendors will be able to do what they want with it.

HP will actively support webOS and push the development for the public to try and help make the platform successful, without putting in to much more money. Also, the patents for webOS will stay in control of HP to protect developers. There is no official word on whether HP will produce any more hardware for webOS or if they will leave it completely up to 3rd party vendors. We would not rule out the possibility though.

This is a pretty bold move, but it is really the only sensible move that HP could make, besides just killing the platform off completely. Maybe this won’t help webOS and it will eventually die completely, but hopefully some will use it and we will finally see the software and hardware progress.

The Gadget Gurus Podcast Ep 140 – Thanksgiving Hangover

This week the Gurus discuss the down fall of HTC, Apple’s subscription based game rules, AT&T-Mobile FCC withdrawal, and much more! Enjoy!

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HP Lost billions on webOS

HP purchased webOS and everyone expected them to take the company and turn it around, because they had the funding. Well, that did not happen. HP had their Q4 Earnings Report and it shows that they lost a little more than was probably expected.

HP bought Palm for 1.2 billion this year, took the company and readjusted it for their needs. After it was all said and done at the point it is now, they have spent a total of 3.3 billion over the course of purchase and almost dead point. Even though HP is still doing good finically, it has to hurt to loose a couple of billion over an experiment.

As of right now CEO Meg Whitman has not announced the final decisions for webOS but says that if they decide to keep it alive, they will do something very significant with it. Whitman is saying we should hear something in the next couple of weeks, so who knows, webOS might be dead soon. Should they go ahead and kill it?

HP Not Spinning of PC Division aka Personal Systems Group

First Netflix, now HP, these damn companies can’t make up there mind when it comes to spin offs. That was until today, when HP announced that they intend to keep their Personal Systems Group. PSG consists of both webOS and PCs, although nothing was said specifically about webOS, we’re assuming it’s still dead. That is unless HP pulled their head out of their ass and saw how popular a low cost tablet with webOS actually is. Or will they go with Windows 8? I don’t know, I just don’t know!!

“HP objectively evaluated the strategic, financial and operational impact of spinning off PSG. It’s clear after our analysis that keeping PSG within HP is right for customers and partners, right for shareholders, and right for employees,” said Meg Whitman, HP president and chief executive officer. “HP is committed to PSG, and together we are stronger.”

via [HP]