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by Derek Kessler
Jun 26, 2012
As promised back in March, HP today released to open source some large chunks of webOS 3.0.5 as the new "Community Edition". The Community Edition of webOS is meant for, well, the homebrew...
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by Derek Kessler
Jun 22, 2012
We're just going to go ahead and assume you've at least checked out the default Memos app for the HP TouchPad. It's nothing to write home about, in fact it's not much of anything at...
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by Derek Kessler
Jun 21, 2012
If you're a Google Voice user on webOS, we hope you've at least looked at GVoice. The app, a fine Enyo app originally built to bring Google Voice to the TouchPad and since shrunken down to...
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by Derek Kessler
Jun 20, 2012
Our man Arthur Thornton is popular guy in the webOS circles. Not only does he write for us here at webOS Nation, but he also is an active developer, notably of the popular TouchPad Twitter app...
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by Derek Kessler
Jun 18, 2012
Alternate Title: How do you feel about webOS now, HP?
So today out in Los Angeles brought forth an interesting piece of hardware: a tablet running Windows 8 (nothing exciting there, we've seen...
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by Derek Kessler
Jun 18, 2012
It's not a day that goes by that somebody doesn't utter something about there being nothing new under the sun. And while that may be true, that doesn't mean we can't do our best to...
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by Derek Kessler
Jun 18, 2012
Are you a webOS user in a country other than Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, the United Kingdom, or the United States of America and find yourself...
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by Derek Kessler
Jun 16, 2012
Back in April, a webOS Nation member frustrated by the lack of updates (or the less-than-thrilling updates that have come) for the Pivot App Catalog magazine took matters into his own hands and...
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by Derek Kessler
Jun 13, 2012
While we're still waiting for Enyo 2.0 to come with the rest of the Open webOS kit, we'll take an update to the beta framework when we can get one. In fact, this week we're getting one...
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by Derek Kessler
Jun 12, 2012
We had an inkling that this was coming eventually, but even so we're still surprised and glad to see it has arrived: Verizon is the first US carrier to reorient their plans to be data-centric...
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by Derek Kessler
Jun 11, 2012
First published in 1605, Cervantes' The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha follows the adventures of Alonso Quijano, a man who perhaps has let his novel-fed imagination get the best of...
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by Derek Kessler
Jun 11, 2012
We know you don't want to hear it, but today's going to be about one thing across the technology blogosphere: whatever Apple announces at WWDC 2012. The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference...
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by Derek Kessler
Jun 11, 2012
Are you ready for some fútbol? Oh, you are? Good. Turns out that over in Europe there's definitely some football soccer going on between the nations of the old world, with the Union of...
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by Derek Kessler
Jun 09, 2012
Late last month, Facebook started pushing harder for users to add people to their 'Close Friends' smart list, something intended to help Facebook figure out which people you want to see most...
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by Derek Kessler
Jun 08, 2012
Palm has done some things that in retrospect were way ahead of their time. The original Palm Pilot was groundbreaking, putting technology in your pocket like nothing else before it. webOS utilized...
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by Derek Kessler
Jun 07, 2012
By now we all know it's possible, in fact not entirely impractical, to hack a Palm Pre 2 onto Sprint, so long as you're willing to go all MacGyver with a warranty-voiding screwdriver. But it...
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by Derek Kessler
Jun 06, 2012
Three years. Has it really been that long? Has it really been only that long?
On June 6, 2009, I lined up in the early morning with a few dozen other excited persons outside the Sprint Store at...
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by Derek Kessler
Jun 05, 2012
The tl;dr version: webOS got screwed, time and time again. Sometimes by Palm's own ambitions, sometimes by supposed partners, and sometimes by fate. The Verge's Chris Zeigler has put...
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by Derek Kessler
Jun 05, 2012
Attention webOS developers, HP's making more changes to satisfy your needs (of the app development type, naturally). There are two changes to how things are going to operate with the App Catalog...
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by Derek Kessler
Jun 04, 2012
Exhibition is a pretty snazzy feature for Touchstone-owning webOS device owners, but if you were ask us we'd tell you it's one of the more underappreciated features (with Synergy Connectors...
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by Derek Kessler
Jun 03, 2012
Way back in October of 2010 we finally got confirmation from HP of the next generation of document handling and editing for webOS: QuickOffice would be shipping with webOS 2.0 in place of Documents...
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by Derek Kessler
Jun 03, 2012
Shares of HP were down more than 6% on Friday on a day where the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 2.2%. With no real news to speak of out of Palo Alto, what drove the drop? It was a downgrade...
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by Derek Kessler
Jun 01, 2012
Sometimes we're privileged to watch somebody go down in flames. If you're watching from the outside, it can be pretty amusing. If you've got chips in the game, it's galling and...
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by Derek Kessler
Jun 01, 2012
We wrote about it in a webOS Wish List entry a few months back, and today it's reality. Thanks to homebrew developer Garrett92C, the unified System Preferences app finally exists for TouchPad...
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by Derek Kessler
May 31, 2012
At HP, Phil McKinney served as the Chief Technology Officer and was responsible for driving innovation across the company's product platform. As such, he was a pretty big fan and supporter of...
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by Derek Kessler
May 31, 2012
Earlier this month we brought the glorious news that the ToodleDo task manager client ToodleTasks had been brought down from the TouchPad's big screen to our more pocketable webOS smartphones....
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by Derek Kessler
May 30, 2012
We've said it many times over the past six months since HP announced their intentions to open source webOS: open source is not a plan. Once the software is out there… then what? It's...
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by Derek Kessler
May 30, 2012
Four months ago, HP's Executive Vice President of Software took on a new role at the Silicon Valley giant: Chief Strategy Officer. That man was Bill Veghte, and today he's taking another...
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by Derek Kessler
May 30, 2012
Kevin from CrackBerry.com, Phil from Android Central, Derek from webOS Nation, Daniel from WPCentral, Gary from Mobile Nations, and Rene from iMore talk iPhone 5 and iOS 6, BlackBerry 10, Samsung...
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by Derek Kessler
May 29, 2012
As I said in the last "editor's desk" post, HP seems to be suffering a serious problem with talent retention in the webOS department (though we wouldn't be surprised if that's...
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