Our heart goes out to Palm. It had a brilliant operating system platform but it never had the financial muscle to compete with Apple or Nokia or Google. Then it went to HP, which then decided to pull the plug on it and then open-sourced webOS. The open-sourced platform was dead and buried for all intents and purposes. But now there seems to be a silver lining in the cloud, if a report by AllthingsD is to be believed. It’s called Gram. (more…)Google+

Former Palm CEO and webOS chief has left HP. AllThingsD first reported about his departure some time ago, in what seems to be a move planned when HP acquired Palm. Rubinstein had planned to stay at HP for 12-24 months to oversee the launch of the TouchPad and transition of webOS into HP’s PSG division. However, things took a turn for the worse and HP went through a period of confusion where it even considered selling off its PSG and killed webOS for good. Thankfully, some sense prevailed and saw the rem...