HP's webOS platform may find new life as an open source operating system for healthcare applications. Researchers at Stanford University have developed applications for the HP TouchPad tablet, a discontinued webOS device, to operate an interventional MRI scanner and view patient respiration data and images gathered from the device.
Andrew B. Holbrook, a research associate at Stanford's Department...
Late last week, following a restructuring, Hewlett-Packard announced that it would no longer make devices based on the webOS platform if acquired from Palm for $1.2 billion last year. At the beginning of this week the company began a fire sale of existing webOS devices: HP's 16 GB TouchPad, for example, was on sale for $99, down from $499 when it first hit store shelves last month.
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