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by Derek Kessler
May 12, 2013
Maybe it took us a while to get this one judged. But we got it done! There were a lot of really really great entries for our 60 seconds for a Verizon HP Pre3 contest, which made judging who deserved...
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by Derek Kessler
May 12, 2013
If you've been waiting to get Android apps running on your webOS-powered HP TouchPad (without having to actually install Android, that is), then you might just be one step closer to your desired...
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by Derek Kessler
May 06, 2013
When Jon Rubinstein came out of retirement from Apple to join Palm way back in 2007, little did he know the odyssey upon which he and Palm were about to embark. From launching the Palm Pre less than...
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by Derek Kessler
Apr 30, 2013
If you're an investor in this day and age, keeping up on your stock portfolio can seem like a daunting task. There's not just the day-to-day progress of your positions, but there are...
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by Derek Kessler
Apr 29, 2013
Consider this your final reminder.
If you want to win one of five brand-new Verizon HP Pre3 smartphones and are totally cool with putting together a video that's no longer than sixty seconds,...
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by Derek Kessler
Apr 28, 2013
Way back in 2012 we were introduced to OpenMobile, a company working to build what they called an "Application Compatibility Layer" for running Android apps on Open webOS. They've...
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by Derek Kessler
Apr 25, 2013
Way back in February of 2012 - that's over a year ago - HP released to open source the new Isis browser built on the latest WebKit standards. They called it Isis. This Isis browser in built in...
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by Derek Kessler
Apr 24, 2013
In the early months of 2011, after the HP Pre3, Veer, and TouchPad had been announced at HP's Think Beyond event in February, there were many debates raging inside the halls of the webOS campus...
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by Derek Kessler
Apr 24, 2013
The week is up, so it's time to announce the winners of the second of the giveaways that compose the Great webOS Nation Giveaway. This contest was for a total of two AT&T HP Veers, two...
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by Derek Kessler
Apr 23, 2013
On the list of rare birds in the webOS universe, it doesn't get much rarer than the Verizon HP Pre3 before you venture into the realm of never-mass-produced prototypes. But it would just so...
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by Derek Kessler
Apr 19, 2013
I recently added a LG Nexus 4 to my smartphone rotation, and yes, that's an Android device. It's a nicely-designed phone and feels good in the hand, and as an added bonus to an old school...
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by Derek Kessler
Apr 18, 2013
The ambitious upstarts at Phoenix International Communications have some pretty crazy plans. Eventually they want to produce their own webOS smartphones, but in the meantime they're content with...
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by Derek Kessler
Apr 18, 2013
One thousand entries, took Derek a while to read, so many good poems.
But when the end comes, there can be just one, no, four, to get a new phone.
webOS haikus, funny, sad, joyful, clever, picking...
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by Derek Kessler
Apr 16, 2013
If an AT&T HP Pre3 doesn't fit the bill for you, fret not, there are more giveaways to come in The Great webOS Nation Giveaway. Like this one. And unlike the last one where we told you to go...
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by Derek Kessler
Apr 10, 2013
The time has arrived; The Great webOS Nation Giveaway starts now.
After much thinking we're breaking up the bounty into four segments.
Each contest will have a different way to win new webOS...
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by Derek Kessler
Apr 09, 2013
Oh, LG.
You own outright a perfectly good mobile operating system with years of development behind it and small but active and supportive open source and developer communities. We can understand...
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by Derek Kessler
Apr 05, 2013
Hear ye, hear ye.
To all that be present at this reading, it is with great exhilaration and felicity that her majesty the most majestic Lady of the webOS announces the bestowal upon this great webOS...
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by Derek Kessler
Apr 02, 2013
Last month we showed you how - if you want to - to make an iPhone look and behave more like webOS. We know that not everybody's going to stick with webOS through the very thin times ahead, and...
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by Derek Kessler
Mar 26, 2013
If you're looking to cut costs on your cell phone contract and maybe upgrade from a beaten old Pre or Pre Plus, you might want to turn some attention to Best Buy and Verizon, as they have a...
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by Derek Kessler
Mar 21, 2013
As much as we love webOS, we know there's plenty of reason to move on to other platforms. Progress on the webOS Ports porting to other devices is going to be slow by the very nature of the open...
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by Derek Kessler
Mar 18, 2013
In the wake of the news that Google intends to shut down one of our most beloved services in the form of Google Reader this summer. We're as devastated as you are. While a number of outfits were...
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by Derek Kessler
Mar 14, 2013
The long-awaited Enyo rewrite of Preware is here, at least in an alpha form. Version 2.0.1 of Preware has landed in the WebOS Internals feed alpha feed in Preware, offering an Alpha look of how...
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by Derek Kessler
Mar 12, 2013
The founding utility of the webOS homebrew scene has gone open source. WebOS Quick Install was first released by Jason Robitaille back in 2009 and it has served as the backbone for homebrew app...
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by Derek Kessler
Mar 11, 2013
Back in December the WebOS Ports team hosted a virtual hackathon to bring a number of popular and vital webOS homebrew utilities up to modern Enyo 2 standards. Things have been pretty quiet on that...
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by Derek Kessler
Mar 05, 2013
Got an old Sprint Palm Pre or Pixi or FrankenPre sitting around that you'd like to put to work on another network? Turns out that even though, according to the Librarian of Congress'...
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by Derek Kessler
Mar 03, 2013
LG is buying webOS from HP and they've stated their intentions: smart TVs and eventually other things. But those other things don't include smartphones and tablets, no, LG's perfectly...
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by Derek Kessler
Mar 01, 2013
The fine folks at WebOS Internals have long been on the leading edge of the webOS homebrew movement. Following the shutdown of webOS hardware development in 2011 and the subsequent exploration of...
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by Derek Kessler
Feb 28, 2013
Palm Computing > US Robotics > 3Com > HandSpring > Palm > palmOne > Palm > HP > LG
To say it's been a long and winding road for Palm and webOS would be an understatment....
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by Derek Kessler
Feb 25, 2013
Following up on the surprise news this morning that LG is buying HP's webOS division, we were left with questions. How? Why? When? We spoke with HP SVP of webOS Martin Risau and LG North America...
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by Derek Kessler
Feb 25, 2013
After today's news that LG is buying webOS from HP, there's been some lingering questions about what all is happening. We finally got a press release from HP, verifying that LG is indeed...