Jon Rubinstein, the former CEO of Palm (NYSE: HPQ) who led the organization through the launch of WebOS and the company’s subsequent sale to HP, is stepping aside to assume a more product-oriented role with HP as Stephen DeWitt, former head of the Americas region for HP’s Personal System Group,…

Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) learned at least one thing from the other companies who have tried to challenge the iPad with their own tablets in 2011: if you don’t have your own retail chain, put your product front and center.

A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: —TouchPad: Dethroning Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) as the king of the tablet market is not HP’s primary goal with it launches its new TouchPad tablet, says Richard Kerris, its VP of developer relations; it’s about the wider consumer electronics market.…

HP’s TouchPad tablet has been put through the paces by a small army of the digerati, and the results are not spectacular. Almost to a reviewer, the Touchpad seems to have evoked the same response: a well-designed tablet with a great user interface that suffers from poor, buggy performance and…

HP (NYSE: HPQ) is presenting two very different mobile strategies to the world leading up to the launch of its first WebOS tablet, and it’s getting a little hard to figure out where the company really wants to go with its mobile software. Is HP trying to out-Apple (NSDQ: AAPL)…

When it launches later this week HP’s Touchpad tablet will feature one application that has yet to make it to the iPad, although it appears that HP (NYSE: HPQ) had to do much of the heavy lifting itself to write a Facebook app for WebOS.

A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Samsung/Apple: Looks like the two companies’ legal disputes over trademarks, patents and copying are spilling over into the other key area where Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Samsung meet…as customer and supplier. This report says that Apple is considering using…

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…

HP (NYSE: HPQ) has been late to just about every party thrown by the mobile world over the last several years, but is it considering jumping into the music-service business as well? It sounds like the company is at least testing the waters for a possible service like Sony’s Qrocity,…

HP (NYSE: HPQ) is ready to join the tablet party. After playing very coy regarding the launch date and pricing for its WebOS tablet, the TouchPad, HP has made it official: the device will be available in the U.S. on July 1st for $499 and $599.

Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: HP (NYSE: HPQ) finally gives the release date for its TouchPad tablet; Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) goes after rival app stores; YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) says it’s working on managing its mobile traffic; Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) is launching…

What will become of WebOS, perhaps the best mobile operating system ever sold for $1.2 billion despite having amassed a market share that would be a rounding error for Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) or Google? (NSDQ: GOOG) HP (NYSE: HPQ) is getting very close to launching the next generation of products…

Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: as news of Apple’s tracking data emerges, Nielsen reveals some privacy stats; details trickle on Amazon’s new tablet; HP (NYSE: HPQ) starts getting operators for its new handsets, starting with the diminutive Veer

Our look at some of the big stories today in mobile: Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) gets rebalanced on the stock exchange; Nuance closes down voice to text service Jott; HP (NYSE: HPQ) loses a senior mobile exec, reaches out to startups; and HTC buys up some wireless patents.

When HP (NYSE: HPQ) relaunched the WebOS and debuted its newest devices running the platform in February, its top execs made a big point of saying it was doing things differently from more established platforms like Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android. Whether HP succeeds still remains to be seen—devices like…

Our look at some of the big stories today in mobile: Verizon’s stake of iPhone sales; some details leak out on HP’s TouchPad tablet; Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Siemens Networks looks to change the terms on its delayed Motorola (NYSE: MMI) networks business acquisition.

While Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) are currently dominating most of the mobile development community’s time and effort, many people think there is room for a third player. HP (NYSE: HPQ) plans to play a very interesting card in hopes of getting developers to think of it as…

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…

Three weeks into his new job at HP (NYSE: HPQ), Todd Achilles was pulled into the $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm, which was struggling to gain traction as its cash reserves dwindled. As Hewlett-Packard’s VP of Telco Sales, Achilles is now running a combined sales team of HP and Palm…