There’s good news and bad news on the HP Open webOS front today. HP is moving to create a new open source version of the operating system that currently powers its discontinued smartphones and tablets ...

One of the market leaders in touchpads, Synaptics, last week ported its multi-touch, gesture-based touchpads to Linux. It promises that the touchpad software is compatible with these six distros: ...

My ZDNet blogging colleague James Kendrick has written an excellent piece for HP TouchPad owners on how to dramatically improve performance by using a WebOS community-supported software stack called ...

The touchpad’s switch on the keyboard might be switched OFF. The touchpad’s drivers might be obsolete. The settings of the touchpad might have changed. Please connect an external mouse to your system ...