All Entries in the "Palm Pre" Category
HP: Open webOS 1.0 arriving in September, Enyo 2.0 framework free to developers today
When HP announced last month that it would open-source webOS, the outfit seemed mighty pleased (and relieved) to have finally made a definitive decision regarding the fate of its $1.2 billion software experiment. In fact, though, the company’s initia…
HP appoints Bill Veghte as chief strategy officer, will lead ‘cloud and webOS open source initiatives’
Bill Veghte was already having his checks cut by HP (after cutting ties with Microsoft), but now he’ll be filling a slightly different corner office. The company today announced that he has been appointed chief strategy officer, but somehow, he’ll also…
webOS gets OTA update, delivers performance improvements and bug fixes
With so many of us performing funeral dirges in honor of webOS it’s easy to forget that the tablet and smartphone platform is still officially supported HP. In fact, just today, the company issued yet another incremental update — pushing TouchPads …
Tech’s biggest misfires of 2011
The past 12 months have been a boon of technological innovation, particularly in the world of mobile devices, where top companies have been waging an arms race for the top of the smartphone and tablet hills. Not everything has been smooth sailing,…
HP TouchPad Go gets reviewed, but remains already long gone (video)
While we already rode the white unicorns of HP’s now disintegrated webOS series, there was one little filly we didn’t get to saddle up. A developmental model of the seven-inch TouchPad Go has now made it into the hands of webOSnation and has been gi…
Switched On: The Year of Reversal
Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology.
Back in 2005, Switched On dubbed its first full year of existence “The Year of the Switch” as IBM sold its PC business to Lenovo, Apple announced plans to leave the…
Switched On: Open source, open issues for webOS
Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology.
HP’s decision to contribute webOS to the open source community represents, at the very least, a detour from the company’s plans to “double down” on the operating sys…
Pre 3 owners greeted by webOS 2.2.4 update, eradicates some bugs (update: Pre 2s as well)
Yes, friends, webOS is still alive and kickin’ — and no matter how uncertain the future may be for the open-source mobile platform, it’s still cranking out fresh maintenance releases. This time, the Pre 3 is the beneficiary of an update to webOS …
HP TouchPad returns in TigerDirect bundle, if only for a moment
“We’ve got TouchPads!” That’s the slogan, but even TigerDirect admits that it’s expecting its latest batch of TouchPad slates to evaporate in a matter of minutes. Strangely enough, we’ve seen the zombie-like webOS tablet on sale in a variety of loca…
Refresh Roundup: week of December 5, 2011
Your smartphone and / or tablet is just begging to get updated. From time to time, these mobile devices are blessed with maintenance refreshes, bug fixes, custom ROMs and anything in between, and so many of them are floating around that it’s easy fo…
