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Phoenix Devices hopes to keep webOS alive, port it to existing hardware

Brad Linder — Thu, 31 May 2012 15:34:52 +0000

After the failure of the HP TouchPad tablet and Pre and Veer smartphones, HP discontinued all of its webOS hardware last year. But the company didn't kill off the operating system. Instead, HP has started to convert webOS into an open source project, and Open webOS is due out later this year. Then what? It's not actually clear. HP may or may not ever release... Read more »

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webOS goes open source soon, hacker already porting it to Android hardware

Brad Linder — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 22:49:21 +0000

HP has announced plans to release webOS as an open source project soon, but while the source code isn't available yet some folks have already started working to port webOS to run on hardware originally designed to run designed for different operating systems. WebOS-Internals member Ryan Hope posted a few pictures today of an HTC Evo 3D running a buggy build of webOS 3.0 today.... Read more »

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HP releases webOS 2.2.4, brings Skype to more phones

Brad Linder — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:08:26 +0000

HP may have canceled the Pre 2 smartphone, but the company is still rolling out software updates... for now. This week HP released webOS 2.2.5 for some Pre 2 handsets, adding new features including: Support for Skype voice calls and instant messages Ability to share text messages and calls with an HP TouchPad over Bluetooth Sync improvements for Google Calendar, Yahoo Calendar, and contacts Up... Read more »

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About 4.2 million people have registered webOS devices… ever

Brad Linder — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 21:59:05 +0000

Have you ever wondered how many webOS devices Palm and HP sold before unceremoniously cancelling the latest webOS phones and tablets this summer? About 4.2 million. The folks at webOS Internals have put together an estimate of the number of webOS devices activated over time, and since 2009 it looks like that's about how many people have created webOS profiles. Unfortunately the number is far... Read more »

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HP is done updating webOS for the Palm Pre3

Brad Linder — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:40:22 +0000

The future of HP's webOS operating system remains uncertain. While the company canceled all current webOS smartphones and tablets this summer, HP has continued to push out software updates for the million or so HP TouchPads that had been sold. But it looks like the company won't be offering any updates for the Palm Pre3 smartphone. A member of the HP developer relations team posted... Read more »

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Guardian: HP will probably kill off webOS soon

Brad Linder — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:11:19 +0000

Officially HP hasn't yet decided whether to kill off its webOS division. Unofficially, The Guardian reports it's probably going to happen. During a conference call discussing the decision not to spin off HP's PC business as a separate company, HP executives yesterday said that a decision on webOS would be made in the coming months. But the Guardian has been interviewing folks off the record, and... Read more »

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Samsung won’t be buying webOS from HP

Brad Linder — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 12:29:27 +0000

HP is killing off its webOS hardware division, which means pretty soon there will be no more HP TouchPad, Pre or Veer devices. But the company still has high hopes fro the webOS software. HP may still install webOS on future PCs, printers, and other devices, and the company has been seeking a partner willing to license webOS for their own phones or tablets. Clearly... Read more »

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Microsoft courts webOS developers while HP tries to hang onto them

Brad Linder — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 10:58:46 +0000

Following HP's announcement that it would discontinue all webOS hardware including smartphones and tablets, Microsoft's Brandon Walsh reached out to webOS developers, promising free phones and other tools if they were interested in developing for Windows Phone 7. So far he's received over 200 replies. For its part, HP is trying to convince webOS developers not to jump ship. While the company will no longer... Read more »

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HP: webOS isn’t quite dead yet… we’re just not sure what to do with it

Brad Linder — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 22:03:25 +0000

HP announced today that the company would discontinue its webOS hardware products in the fourth quarter of 2011. That means we can say goodbye to the HP TouchPad tablet and the HP Pre, Veer, and other webOS phones. But the company isn't killing webOS software... at least not yet. During a conference call with reporters today HP executives said that the company is exploring its... Read more »

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It’s the end of webOS as we know it: HP kills the TouchPad, Pre, Veer

Brad Linder — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 20:14:15 +0000

About a year and a half ago Hewlett Packard bought Palm for $1.2 billion. The company had big plans for the webOS operating system, and planned to launch phones, tablets, and other products... even printers. Today those plans are largely coming to an end. HP has announced it will discontinue webOS devices including phones and tablets. The company is still looking for ways to get... Read more »

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GetJar free app store surpasses 2 billion total downloads

William — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 18:34:55 +0000

App store GetJar has announced that it's garnered over 2 billion total downloads. GetJar sports a large catalog of free applications for pretty much every smartphone platform except iOS, including BlackBerry, webOS, Android, Symbian, and even HTML5 web apps. GetJar offers more than 150,000 apps in total, and the company has managed to score a few Android exclusives. The company's app store was the first to... Read more »

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Amazon Kindle app now available for the HP TouchPad

Brad Linder — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:50:03 +0000

One of the biggest complaints early reviewers have had about the HP TouchPad tablet is the lack of high quality apps available for webOS 3.0. In fact, some of the apps HP had promised would be available at launch didn't make the cut when the tablet started shipping earlier this month. Take the Amazon Kindle app for the TouchPad, for instance. The TouchPad hit the... Read more »

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HP Play beta syncs music between your PC and webOS phone or tablet

Brad Linder — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 11:32:53 +0000

HP has launched a public beta of HP Play -- a new application designed to let you synchronize your media between a PC or Mac and an HP TouchPad tablet or webOS phone. The software is based on the open source Songbird media player and right now it only lets you sync your music over a USB cable. But eventually HP plans to add wireless... Read more »

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WordPress finally launches a full-featured mobile blogging app — for webOS

Brad Linder — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:04:21 +0000

Popular blogging service WordPress has been offering mobile apps for writing posts, editing comments, and generally managing your blog for a few years. But the company's iOS and Android apps have never been as easy to use as the web-based WordPress admin panel. Among other things, the mobile apps lack a WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) editor for simple things like italicizing... Read more »

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HP in talks to license webOS for competitors’ phones, tablets

Brad Linder — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 18:00:26 +0000

HP contends that one of the strengths of the webOS platform is that the company controls both the hardware and the software, allowing HP to tightly control the user experience of the TouchPad tablet and webOS phones, much the way Apple does with its iOS devices. But that doesn't mean HP isn't willing to license the operating system to other companies that want to use... Read more »

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HP opens the door to webOS 3.0 app submissions, in-app purchases

Brad Linder — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 16:00:45 +0000

HP has started accepting webOS 3.0 apps designed for the upcoming HP TouchPad tablet. The company released an SDK (software developer kit) for the operating system in February, but now developers can submit apps for including in the webOS App Catalog which will allow TouchPad users to find and download apps using the on-device app store. HP is also opening its in-app purchasing program. This... Read more »

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HP is willing to let other companies license webOS

Brad Linder — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 19:44:12 +0000

HP may have acquired Palm just to get its hands on the webOS operating system (does a company have hands?), but HP CEO Leo Apotheker says the company isn't ruling out the possibility of sharing webOS with other device makers. When asked whether HP would license webOS for use on phones or other devices from competing companies, Apotheker basically said, sure, why not? Specifically, he... Read more »

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Mojo app support appears in HP TouchPad Emulator Beta 5

Lee — Sat, 28 May 2011 13:30:33 +0000

One issue which has reared its ugly head on most current tablet OSes is how to deal with legacy apps. For the upcoming HP TouchPad and the shiny, new webOS 3, the challenge is how to handle apps created using the older Palm Mojo SDK. As the Touchpad nears launch readiness, however, HP has finally revealed its response in the latest beta build of its... Read more »

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Third party Twitter apps will have to ask permission before showing “direct messages”

Brad Linder — Wed, 18 May 2011 18:27:05 +0000

Twitter has announced that starting by the end of this month third party apps will have to ask you for permission before they can access your Twitter direct messages. The move will certainly give users a little more control over the data shared with third parties, and it's always good to be reminded that data you might think is private is actually in the hands... Read more »

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Slacker now offering on-demand streaming music

William — Tue, 17 May 2011 15:37:45 +0000

Slacker's premium mobile music service is now offering on-demand mobile music streaming for $10 per month. Slacker's free music service generates a station for you based on a song or artist and finds more songs based on what you like and what you don’t. The free version was restricted featured ads and a limited number of skips, while a $3.99/month premium version bypassed those restrictions and... Read more »

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Google Docs adds webOS support for mobile Web edits

Lee — Thu, 12 May 2011 21:05:47 +0000

With a slide-out QWERTY keyboard like the one the Palm Pre and Plus hide beneath their shells (or a permanently exposed one in the case of the Pixi) always at the ready, it's a shame when you want to get productive on a mobile website but can't. That's been the case with Google Docs for some time now, because although iOS and Android users had... Read more »

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WebOS in-app purchases coming this summer

Brad Linder — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 19:30:15 +0000

Now that Google and RIM have added support for in-app purchases to Android and Blackberry devices, it was clearly time for HP to follow suit, and sure enough word is making the rounds that webOS in-app purchases will be available this summer. The move will allow webOS developers to offer free or paid apps with optional updates or extra features which users will be able... Read more »

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HP to launch music, movie stores for HP Touchpad webOS tablet?

Brad Linder — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 14:28:46 +0000

It looks like HP may be preparing to launch new music and movie stories fro webOS devices including the upcoming HP TouchPad tablet. PreCentral received a tip suggesting that the tablet will have an HP Music Store and HP Movie Store. The leak comes from a presentation HP sent to a PreCentral tipster. The images look like mockups for now, but the slide includes information... Read more »

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WebOS 3.0 emulator leaked, shows how webOS tablets will work

Brad Linder — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:21:49 +0000

The webOS mobile operating system from HP and Palm is designed for phones with touchscreen displays, so the company doesn't really have to change things too much to make the OS work on tablets. But things are different on higher resolution displays, so the company plans to launch the HP Touchpad tablet with webOS 3.0 -- a new version of the operating system designed for... Read more »

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Free baseball updates on your smartphone: Sporting News Baseball

William — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 13:41:05 +0000

The 2011 Major League Baseball season's opening day is finally here, and so is a new iPhone app to help fans follow their favorite teams. SportingNews.com has partnered with Zumobi to launch , an ad-supported app that delivers scores, standings, stats, league and team news, player info, recaps and exclusive fantasy league content. The app also provides access to the Sporting News baseball blog's MLB coverage and... Read more »

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webOS will run on HP computers… in a window

Brad Linder — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 11:25:37 +0000

HP officials have said that the company's webOS operating system which runs on phones and tablets will also be available for HP desktop and laptop computers, allowing you to run webOS apps on nearly any HP device in the future. This week HP's Palm chief Jon Rubinstein was a guest on The Engadget Show, and he explained a little more clearly what that means. The... Read more »

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Complete Browser for webOS supports tabs, anonymous browsing

Brad Linder — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 17:34:54 +0000

While tabs are pretty much standard on desktop web browsers, most mobile web browsers come without support for browser tabs since they take up precious pixels on tiny smartphone screens. But just because the default iOS, Android or webOS browsers don't support tabs doesn't mean you can't find alternate browser that support them if you like. Unfortunately for webOS users, there hasn't really been a... Read more »

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PalmOS emulator unofficially ported to webOS 2.1

Brad Linder — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 16:59:22 +0000

When Palm introduced the Palm Pre and Pixi phones a few years ago running the shiny new webOS operating system, the company announced that it was moving away from support for legacy Palm apps. But rather than leave users in the cold after they had spent years (and a reasonable amount of cash) collecting PalmOS apps, Palm partnered with a company called MotionApps to release... Read more »

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webOS 2.1 update now available for the Palm Pre 2

Brad Linder — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 21:50:20 +0000

Sure, the Palm Pre 2 was the first phone to ship with webOS 2.0. But for some reason when it came time to push out webOS 2.1 with some bug fixes and performance enhancements, the Palm Pre Plus was first in line. Now it looks like the wait is over for Pre 2 owners though. PreCentral reports that Canadian wireless carrier Rogers is pushing out... Read more »

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HP CEO: Every HP PC will ship with webOS next year

Brad Linder — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 16:05:25 +0000

Right now webOS is primarily an operating system for mobile devices including smartphones and the upcoming HP Touchpad tablet. But we already know that HP has bigger plans for the operating system. Eventually it will power all sorts of devices including internet-connected printers, and HP also plans to make it possible to run webOS apps on a Windows PC. Now HP CEO Leo Apotheker says... Read more »

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