Spilling the beans on its own CES news, LG announced tonight (Dec. 17) that its new smart TVs for 2015 will sport the second generation of the webOS software (a descendant of the Palm operating system ...

In a surprising move, South Korean consumer electronics giant LG is now offering new entry-level TV models that are powered by Roku’s smart-TV platform instead of its own WebOS software. It quietly ...

Despite the popularity of smart TVs, there is currently no clear winner among the handful of smart TV platforms available. Google's Android TV may have the numbers but it doesn't have a wide lead ...

With its latest webOS update, LG has begun automatically installing the Microsoft Copilot AI app on its smart TVs. The change ...

LG has announced that it will begin licensing its webOS TV software for use by other TV manufacturers. That will put webOS in direct competition with other platforms in use across TV brands, such as ...

LG Electronics is releasing a free, open-source software development kit for Google Android and Apple iOS developers to let apps easily connect with — eventually — any Internet-connected TV or device ...

Since LG informed the world that webOS is coming to 70 percent of its smart TVs this year, naturally we were keen to take it for a spin. So, when they offered to let us take it for a spin, and have ...

LG is stepping up to the world. It would soon debut its initially exclusive Smart TV software called the webOS and be licensed to other companies to use the operating system under different brands ...

Hulu has expanded device support for its new app, the one containing access to both its on-demand content and its live television channels. The app started arriving several months ago for other ...

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LG's brand-new smart platform, webOS, wasn't initially intended for televisions. In a previous life, webOS was Palm's (and then HP's) last attempt at a mobile operating system, and it was... average.