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December 10, 2011 01:01 am GMT
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HPs Whitman: Well Make WebOS-Powered Tablets In 2013
Hewlett Packard CEO Meg Whitman finally announced the fate of operating system WebOS this morning, after the company previously announced that it was ceasing the development of all smartphones and tablets running Palms webOS platform. The actual software's fate was yet to be determined. HP said today that it will be making the webOS code open source.We sat down with Whitman and HP board member Marc Andreessen to speak about this news and what it means for the company. "We are so excited about webOS and realized that the very best thing to do is to open source the technology, contribute to it and invest in it," she explains to TechCrunch. "We will harness the power of the community to make this a better alternative to to other operating systems."Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/VEucHWvXkpY/
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