The best news of the week is that HP is NOT killing off webOS. After months of deliberation, HP announced that it will release webOS as an open source platform and will continue to be a active player in developing and support the platform. That’s great news for Touchpad owners!

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HP turns webOS into open source and will make new tablets in 2013

Photoshop is one of the most powerful and deep pieces of software available, a tool that professionals use to manipulate images in thousands of ways. Which makes Adobe’s unveiling of Photoshop Touch for tablets very interesting.

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Adobe unveils Photoshop Touch for iPad/Android tablets

Ever since HP killed off the webOS hardware , the future of the mobile platform has remained shrouded in mystery. VentureBeat is reporting that Amazon might buy webOS from HP. But what about that new Android-powered Kindle Fire ?

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Rumor: Amazon in ’serious negotiations’ to buy webOS

After getting squeezed out of the iPhone and iPad world , Adobe Flash is getting smacked in the face, again. Microsoft’s declared that the Metro (read: tablet) version of Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 8 will be a “plug-in free” browser. Instead, Microsoft will back HTML5 for its browser. Sorry, Adobe.

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Microsoft ditches Adobe Flash on Windows 8-powered tablets

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Amazon is chatting with book publishers to create a “Netflix-like” subscription service for e-books. Is this the Kindle tablet’s secret trump card?

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Rumor: Amazon working on ‘all-you-can-read’ e-book service

HP’s end to webOS (although, it’ll still be supported, for now ) was heartbreaking for fans of the OS, but there’s possible good news. Rumor has it Samsung might buy webOS from HP and give it the love it truly deserves.

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Rumor: Samsung might snatch webOS from HP’s portfolio

Now that the smoke has cleared up around WebOS’s abrupt K.O. , it’s time to straighten out the facts: WebOS is not dead. In fact, despite dismal TouchPad sales, HP still “stands by it.”

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HP didn’t kill WebOS, insists it’ll still be updated and loved

Portland, Oregon is widely acknowledged by experts* as one of the best cities on the planet, and quite possibly in the entire universe. To figure why, and to make things even better (like that’s possible), IBM is going to attempt to simulate the entire city in a giant computer game.

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IBM decides to play SimPortland with the actual city of Portland

Who called it? Apple called it . Adobe Flash is a dying elephant. As the rest of the Web has quickly embraced new standards such as HTML5, Adobe kept its game face on. But the end is near, as the company pushes out Adobe Edge, an HTML5 tool that keeps up with the times.

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Adobe prepares for Flash’s death with new HTML5 tool: Adobe Edge

Strange things are happening within Microsoft. The software giant is fighting multiple fronts: PCs, smartphones, gaming and soon, tablets. There’s just one tiny problem: fragmentation and a lack of total synergy between its Windows 7/8, Windows Phone 7 and Xbox platforms. A brand new OS that unifies all of those could be Microsoft’s savior.

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Microsoft might kill Windows brand in favor of a super OS