What LG Will Do With webOS

You may be forgiven if you’ve all but forgotten about webOS, the mobile operating system that Hewlett-Packard picked up with its $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm in 2010. Today HP announced that South Korean electronics giant LG Electronics has acquired the rights to use the operating system in forthcoming smart TV products. The deal will include the source code, documentation, a license to all the associated patents (HP won’t be letting those go) and the remaining user experience team. People associated with the cloud services infrastructure that had been part of the webOS operations will stay with HP.