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  In Pictures: A Palm technology timeline

• E-voting System Declares Wrong Winners in Fla.

  By Jaikumar Vijayan | 24 April, 2012 00:03

  An optical-scan vote-tallying system, now used by some 300 U.S. municipalities, misreported the results of a municipal election in Palm Beach County, Fla., last month.

• With heart and money, Silicon Valley aids undocumented students

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 12 March, 2012 21:18

  Some big names in Silicon Valley's tech community are helping a group of talented, young students who are victims of circumstance and politics.

• Startup scene in Singapore not quite Silicon Valley

  By Jay Alabaster | 01 March, 2012 04:10

  The growing startup scene in southeast Asia is a bit different than its counterpart in Silicon Valley.

• HP cuts staff as webOS transitions to open-source

  By John Ribeiro | 29 February, 2012 14:54

  Hewlett-Packard has cut 275 jobs in its webOS group, as part of its strategy to turn the operating system over to the open-source community, a source said Tuesday.

• Rubinstein leaves HP

  By Nancy Gohring | 28 January, 2012 05:54

  Jon Rubinstein, known for his role developing the original iPod for Apple and for running Palm, has left Hewlett-Packard, where he's worked since the company's acquisition of Palm.

• HP plans September open-source release for webOS

  By Nancy Gohring | 26 January, 2012 07:47

  HP announced on Wednesday that it plans to release the code behind webOS in September under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

• Final phase of Mass. data protection law kicks in March 1

  By Jaikumar Vijayan | 26 January, 2012 06:31

  All companies storing personal data on Massachusetts residents have just over a month to ensure that their contractors, suppliers, technology providers and other third parties comply with a provision of a state data breach law that went into effect in March 2010.

• HP puts webOS on open source track

  By John Cox | 10 December, 2011 08:22

  HP announced today that it will "contribute" its webOS operating system to the open source community.

• Technology argument 5: iPad vs. everything else

  By John Cox | 02 November, 2011 21:33

  We debated whether to call this piece "iPad vs. Motorola Xoom" or "iPad vs. Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1" or whatever the Android tablet du jour is. But really it's still "iPad vs Everything Else."

• More WebOS rumors: What we know so far

  By Jared Newman | 20 January, 2011 08:55

  The leaked details on HP and Palm's WebOS tablet keep on coming, though HP has said we haven't seen everything yet.

• How HP and Palm's WebOS tablet could 'blow away' iPad

  By Jared Newman | 15 January, 2011 07:00

  We haven't seen HP hype a tablet since last year's flirtation with Windows 7, but that could change after February 9, when the company has all but confirmed that it will introduce its first WebOS tablet.

• The five pros and cons of a Facebook phone

  By Brennon Slattery | 22 September, 2010 01:58

  Is Facebook building a phone? The company won't say for sure, but for some the idea of a Facebook phone is social networking overkill. To social butterflies, a Facebook phone is a dream come true. Here is a look at the pros and cons.

• Did HP board have hidden agenda in removing Hurd?

  By Tony Bradley | 11 August, 2010 04:35

  By now everyone knows that HP CEO Mark Hurd was forced to resign following an investigation into an alleged sexual harassment scandal.

• Goodbye Kin, Sidekick and 'social phones'

  By Jared Newman | 03 July, 2010 08:04

  If there's any correlation between the recently killed Kin and discontinued T-Mobile Sidekick -- aside from Microsoft having a hand in both discontinued phones -- it's that they tried to distinguish themselves from both high-powered smartphones and simpler feature phones.

• HP-Palm deal: 5 things I hope It brings

  By Jared Newman | 30 April, 2010 01:51

  Hewlett-Packard just raised the ante in the smartphone wars by purchasing Palm, bringing to the table its standing as the world's largest PC maker and potentially bringing on a new era of WebOS devices. The future is still cloudy for the union of the ailing Palm and the mighty HP, but here are five ways HP can make the best of its $1.2 billion buy:

• HP purchase of Palm paves way for WebOS tablet

  By Tony Bradley | 30 April, 2010 04:16

  The fall of Palm from groundbreaking innovator of handheld PDA's, to ailing developer of capable-but-waning smartphones is complete with the announcement that HP will acquire Palm to the tune of US$1.2 billion. The primary asset of Palm is the WebOS mobile platform--an asset that puts HP in a strong position to create a tablet device to compete with Apple's iPad.