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by Derek Kessler
Nov 30, 2012
There's putting your money where your mouth is, and then there's putting your money where your mouth and everybody elses' mouths are. HP/Gram has gone for the latter, donating five...
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by Derek Kessler
Nov 29, 2012
Back in the summer of 2011 when the HP TouchPad launched to the world, HP also launched a desktop app for both Windows and Mac to enable the synchronization of your music to your TouchPad, Pre3, or...
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by Derek Kessler
Nov 29, 2012
The platform-agnostic Enyo application framework is expanding its reach, adding support for Internet Explorer 10 touch events and Amazon's new Kindle Fire HD platform. IE 10 itself is a multi-...
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by Derek Kessler
Nov 28, 2012
Yesterday triggered a note of panic amongst Facebook-using webOSites (webOSians? webOSers? What are we?). We started seeing a lot of 'Communication Errors' claiming that the "user...
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by Derek Kessler
Nov 27, 2012
While upstart Phoenix International Communications hopes to someday put out their own hardware running our favored mobile operating system (we'll give you one guess as to what that operating...
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by Derek Kessler
Nov 25, 2012
This time a year ago, my regular electronic device use consisted of a two-year-old MacBook Pro, a Sprint FrankenPre 2, a Pre3 on AT&T, and a white TouchPad. My FrankenPre 2 was starting to show...
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by Derek Kessler
Nov 25, 2012
Starting with webOS 2.0, we lost something near and dear to our multitasking hearts: the mini card view. With the addition of card stacks in webOS 2.0, Palm made the decision to drop the easy-...
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by Derek Kessler
Nov 21, 2012
At the beginning of this year we launched a massive redesign and overhaul of our site, bringing webOS Nation up to modern standards front and back. Today we're pleased to be able to bring you...
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by Derek Kessler
Nov 21, 2012
Really, guys? Really?
Since when did Touch-to-Share allow sharing of anything other than URLs, let alone ambiguous media? And when did the Palm Pixi Plus get updated to webOS 2.0? And isn't it a...
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by Derek Kessler
Nov 20, 2012
It was a little over two years ago that HP hired former SAP chief Leo Apotheker to be the Palo Alto tech giant's new CEO. Apotheker came from a short tenure as CEO of German enterprise software...
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by Derek Kessler
Nov 19, 2012
I'm a big fan of Instapaper. If you're not familiar with it, Instapaper is a service that allows you to save web articles for later reading, and also presents just the content of those...
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by Derek Kessler
Nov 16, 2012
In this year of two thousand twelve, we've reached a point in our modern society where waiting is considered a bad thing. Patience runs thin. We don't tolerate lines, nor are we accepting of...
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by Derek Kessler
Nov 16, 2012
Earlier this week, Nokia rebranded their pretty-darn-good Nokia Maps as 'Here' and launched their maps outside of Microsoft's Bing and Windows Phone platforms (and Nokia's own much-...
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by Derek Kessler
Nov 15, 2012
So far, only Microsoft seems to be really interested in Windows RT. Seeming as they're the ones that are making the ARM-compatible version of Windows 8 you'd expect them to be interested,...
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by Derek Kessler
Nov 13, 2012
Several months ago we first touched on the Quick-Keys Keyboard virtual keyboard app for webOS smartphones. The app by D Gardner was more than a little rough by then, but the concept seemed solid:...
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by Derek Kessler
Nov 10, 2012
Earlier today, my boss, Kevin "CrackBerry Kevin" Michaluk asked the world, "What's the best food to eat to make your moustache grow faster? Liver and Onions?"
To which I, in...
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by Derek Kessler
Nov 09, 2012
Back in August, TouchPad hacking mastermind James Sullins released a really early build of CyanogenMod10 for those of us daring enough to try something that is far from stable in the Android-on-your...
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by Derek Kessler
Nov 09, 2012
While we've been watching with glee the progress of WebOS Ports's port of Open webOS to the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, there was a part of us that cringed when we installed the phone-sized version...
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by Derek Kessler
Nov 06, 2012
We already know that Gram's working with LG on an Open webOS-powered television, but as they've been indicating for a while now, they could see the open source successor to webOS getting put...
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by Derek Kessler
Nov 06, 2012
Today is November 6th, 2012, election day in the United States of America. Today our long national nightmare of rallies, attack ads, yard signs, strangers knocking on your door and calling your...
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by Derek Kessler
Nov 05, 2012
When you're HP, you've got money to play around with. Sure, you're not making a much money as you used to, but there's still cash sitting around with which you can do things. You can...
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by Derek Kessler
Nov 01, 2012
While HP was able to deliver on their roadmap for Open webOS, spitting out the first version of the open source successor to webOS on schedule at the end of September, Enyo's been lagging behind...
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by Derek Kessler
Oct 31, 2012
Having successfully completed the build process for the Open webOS alpha on the Galaxy Nexus, I knew that the next time it came around I'd have a better idea of what to do. Mostly because I'...
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by Derek Kessler
Oct 30, 2012
Previous efforts to modify Android devices to take advantage of the ever popular Touchstone charger have required at the very least a degree of patience and some non-standard supplies to make...
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by Derek Kessler
Oct 29, 2012
The worst kept secret out of Google's Mountain View campus was not about to be ruined by a hurricane. So with their New York City unveiling cancelled on account of Sandy threatening to inundate...
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by Derek Kessler
Oct 25, 2012
While we don't have all the details on what exactly Open webOS Professional Edition will include, we imagine the cloud services of Gram in way of webOS Account support are practically a given....
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by Derek Kessler
Oct 25, 2012
Tuesday brought tweaks to Open webOS courtesy of homebrew maestro Josh Palmer (known 'round these parts as @ShiftyAxel) that made the tablet-sized operating system work better on phone-sized...
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by Derek Kessler
Oct 24, 2012
Ever since HP announced they would be open sourcing webOS, we've been wondering "to what end?" Going open source can only amount to so much with only the community pushing forward the...
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by Derek Kessler
Oct 23, 2012
Last week we showed you what Open webOS on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus looks like, as ported by the team at WebOS Ports. It's still a fairly early alpha project, and right now a lot of emphasis is...
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by Derek Kessler
Oct 23, 2012
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