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Aldi is bringing a 70" 4K Ultra HD TV with webOS to the middle aisles across Australia this Saturday, 15 June 2024 - for a crazy low low price of $629.

Although LG's presence at CES 2022 was virtual, the company still launched a range of new TVs and the new OLED evo range, an air purifier, new washing machine tower, new gaming laptops and gear, a new Instaview fridge, new robot and more!

LG's most sophisticated range of Smart TVs, from the absolute top-of-the-line OLEDs, through to QNED Mini LED TVs and more have launched in Australia, and the full extended launch video is available to watch in this article.

With a TV so much more than just a way to pick up free-to-air signals these days, and in 2021 brimming with smarts that allow streaming, gaming, access to apps, mirroring from devices and more, the news that LG's Smart TVs will Google's Stadia cloud gaming late this year is a natural and expected development.

The ABC has updated its iview app for certain smart TVs, bringing them into line with the Android TV and Apple TV versions.

LG is putting on show a new line of refrigerators at the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show. The models have voice control and remote viewing courtesy of the LG webOS operating system which is used in its smart TVs.

LG is showing off its range of IPS LED and OLED commercial, and TV signage at Integrate 2016 – and its offerings range from a huge spectacular wave-shaped signage wall to 3.65mm thin OLED panels that mount flat on walls.

Netflix have a criteria based recommendation for smart TV and much of LG’s new 2016 range got the tick.

It was just Samsung spruiking the Internet of Things at CES, it’s big competitor LG was doing it too with the tagline ‘Innovation for a better life’.

Brave or what? An HP executive has revealed that the company has a smartphone under development.

HP bought WebOS from Palm in 2010 for US$1.2B ostensibly to take on iOS and Android. Instead it rapidly proceeded to throw away its investment.

HP has revealed the timetable for the release of webOS under an open source licence. Open webOS 1.0 is scheduled to appear in September.

HP has announced it will contribute the former Palm smartphone operating system, webOS, software to the open source community.

Microsoft has licensed AgreeYa Mobility to use its protocols for communication between mobile devices and Microsoft enterprise systems.

After just 12 months at the helm of the world's largest computer company Hewlett-Packard, CEO Leo Apotheker has been axed and replaced with former eBay boss Meg Whitman. Formerly from SAP, Apotheker had presided over a year of turmoil at HP which saw widespread layoffs, department heads replaced, WebOS products dumped, a planned sell-off of the PC business and a plummeting stock price.

HP today announced that it would produce a last batch of its webOS-based TouchPads to satisfy purchase requests received after having announced the tablet's withdrawal from sales: a move that resulted in a mad scamble for discounted TouchPads.

Days after giant PC maker Hewlett-Packard announced it would discontinue its device business supported by the webOS operating system, senior vice president Stephen DeWitt declared HP would continue to develop and evolve the troubled operating system, and he promised continued support for the defunct webOS based touchpad.

With hoards of hungry tablet consumers clearing the shelves of HP TouchPads at Harvey Norman, it seems quite obvious that there's no shortage of demand for WebOS tablet devices. The only problem for HP was the price.

The shock announcement last week by Hewlett-Packard that it will dump its WebOS platform, its HP TouchPad and is seriously considering spinning off its massive PC business has the market in a spin and analysts questioning the wisdom of its strategy. At least some wonder whether HP's contrarian approach of moving out of hardware while other major players are going in the opposite direction will leave the IT giant exposed and vulnerable.

The credibility of the world's largest computer company Hewlett-Packard as a predictable IT supplier is under threat, the wake of its shock announcement today that it will in effect ditch its personal computing business, according to a leading analyst. However, the period of uncertainty may provide some opportunities for IT buyers to pick up some bargains.