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by Jonathan I Ezor
May 11, 2012
At its Global Influencer Summit this week in Shanghai, China, HP's executives were questioned by several reporters about the company's plans for tablets, a market it has essentially been out...
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by Jonathan I Ezor
Apr 11, 2012
As Benjamin Franklin said in 1789, in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. While your webOS device can't help a whole lot with the former (although it can help...
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by Jonathan I Ezor
Feb 11, 2012
While every webOS device comes with some kind of speaker, the TouchPad is the only one whose speaker is adequate to fill a (smallish) room. On the phones, even the rear speaker struggles to put out...
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by Jonathan I Ezor
Jan 15, 2012
While webOS devices do a great job supporting Bluetooth audio, there are times when you may want to go wired rather than wireless, especially if you're at all concerned about exposure to...
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by Jonathan I Ezor
Jan 01, 2012
Happy new year to my fellow webOS users! While 2012 is certainly not starting as hopefully for our platform as did 2011, given how that year worked out, perhaps that's for the best. Rather than...
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by Jonathan I Ezor
Dec 13, 2011
Now that HP has decided (for now) to keep webOS alive while converting it to an open source operating system, we thought it might be helpful to help explain what open source software is (and isn’t...
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by Jonathan I Ezor
Oct 09, 2011
As a Verizon Wireless customer since the company was called NYNEX, and as someone who went from the Pre Plus to the Pre 2 (the latter courtesy of the "Oprah Moment" at last year's New York webOS...
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by Jonathan I Ezor
Oct 03, 2011
Very early this morning, the HP direct sales Web site put up the 32 GB TouchPad for sale for a short time. This was notable for a few reasons. First, it was not announced by HP's @Paul_for_HP or...
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by Jonathan I Ezor
Sep 14, 2011
As the Boys of Summer head towards the Fall Classic, and magic numbers start lowering, baseball fans who want to catch every last minute of the action and pour over every stat and piece of news,...
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by Jonathan I Ezor
Sep 12, 2011
The ability to edit Microsoft Office documents on our webOS devices has been promised to us "soon" literally since the original Palm Pre announcement at CES in January 2009. Later, the read-only...
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by Jonathan I Ezor
Aug 31, 2011
One of the less-discussed but still annoying missing features in the WiFi TouchPad was true hardware GPS (the GSM TouchPad was reportedly going to include a-GPS). Without actual GPS, location...
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by Jonathan I Ezor
Aug 19, 2011
With HP's announcement that it is discontinuing production and sale of webOS hardware including the brand-new TouchPad, those of us who intend to keep our TouchPads anyway are even more concerned...
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by Jonathan I Ezor
Aug 11, 2011
We've been tirelessly campaigning for HP to actually start fulfilling its pledge to push webOS in the enterprise, and we're pleased to announce that it's beginning to put its product where its...
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by Jonathan I Ezor
Aug 09, 2011
As HP intensifies its webOS push into the enterprise market, it faces an increased focus on security features and management. One area where webOS has lagged somewhat behind competitors is in its...
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by Jonathan I Ezor
Aug 09, 2011
Since I received my TouchPad (courtesy of HP and Resonate Media), I've been putting it through its paces, and considering how it compares to our family's iPad 2 (won in a raffle, so my webOS...
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by Jonathan I Ezor
Aug 08, 2011
As a follow-up to the tiered webOS developer program we reported on last month, which focused largely on the relationship between developers and the Developer Relations team, HP also announced its...
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by Jonathan I Ezor
Jul 08, 2011
With the ability (as of webOS 3.0) to share a single Palm Profile across multiple webOS devices, users with both a webOS smartphone and a TouchPad are facing new choices regarding app purchases....
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by Jonathan I Ezor
Jul 06, 2011
Since last we checked in with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to see whether HP's filings could tell us something about its future plans, a few more marks have been submitted for review and...
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by Jonathan I Ezor
Jul 01, 2011
HP has made it clear in its positioning of the TouchPad that the device (and, indeed, the entire webOS ecosystem) is being targeted squarely at the enterprise market. One launch day app that is...
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by Jonathan I Ezor
Jul 01, 2011
Electronic Arts' Need for Speed franchise has been available for webOS since Need for Speed Undercover accompanied the launch of the PDK beta in February 2011. While the game has gotten great...
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by Jonathan I Ezor
Jun 30, 2011
With the TouchPad launch just one day away, app developers have been chomping at the bit to talk about, show and promote their webOS 3.0 apps that will be available at or soon after launch....
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by Jonathan I Ezor
Jun 28, 2011
On February 9th, after HP announced that there would not be a guaranteed upgrade path for legacy devices (the Pre, Pixi and their Plus varieties) to webOS 2.x and beyond, the community was...
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by Jonathan I Ezor
Jun 28, 2011
For those who may not already be planning on waiting on the physical line for the TouchPad's launch on Friday, HP has a new Facebook contest for you: TouchPad LaunchLine. To get points,...
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by Jonathan I Ezor
Jun 28, 2011
One of the nicer features of the TouchPad is its ability to connect with your phone to make and receive calls (and text messages). Given that this feature uses Bluetooth, it could well work with...
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by Jonathan I Ezor
Jun 23, 2011
Once again, the FCC's search engine has come through for us with the appearance yesterday of what appears to be a TouchPad with a built-in cell network radio. We say "appears" because, as with...
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by Jonathan I Ezor
Jun 22, 2011
As we prepare for the expected and hoped-for marketing blitz for the HP TouchPad, we're seeing good signs that HP is also looking inward to spread the word (and build the webOS user base). Darren...
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by Jonathan I Ezor
Jun 20, 2011
We have written and speculated in the past about HP's planned cloud-based music sharing service, most recently on June 13th, and the name "HP Play" has come up more than once as a likely name. It...
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by Jonathan I Ezor
Jun 13, 2011
We've written in the past about various Palm/HP trademark applications that have come and gone (the PalmPad mark is officially dead in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; the Myte and Gyst...
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by Jonathan I Ezor
Jun 12, 2011
HP has been promoting its tiny Veer smartphone everywhere from the roadways to the subways to Nickelodeon. The latest channel is clearly designed to both highlight the Veer's social media power...
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by Jonathan I Ezor
Jun 06, 2011
As my colleague Tim wrote last week, he and I are both part of a new HP marketing effort called Veer Peers, through which we've been provided with HP Veer smartphones (although without AT&T...
