Hewlett-Packard is throwing in the towel on webOS, abandoning the dream of dominating the smartphone industry with its own mobile operating system. According to reports, HP is selling webOS to consumer gadget manufacturer LG for use in the company’s smart televisions.  The sale, first reported by CNET, marks the end of a sad era for the once promising mobile operating system developed by Palm and sold to HP for $1.2 billion in April 2010. It is hard to imagine how HP could have bungled how it handled webOS any worse than it did before essentially quitting on the operating system and ... Read More