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by Derek Kessler
Oct 22, 2012
Yesterday we reported on how the Amazon MP3 app had stopped working properly on webOS smartphones, spitting back errors, sometimes failing to download tracks, and consistently failing to put your...
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by Derek Kessler
Oct 21, 2012
When the Palm Pre launched on Sprint back in 2009, little 'ole Palm partnered with Amazon, offering the relatively new Amazon MP3 store (launched two years prior as the first online music store...
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by Derek Kessler
Oct 19, 2012
Ah, webOS, it's good to see you again.
Sure, I see webOS every day on my Pre3 and TouchPad, but they're starting to show their age. And, well, they're getting boring. Still great...
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by Derek Kessler
Oct 17, 2012
If you're feeling up for some time in Ubuntu's Terminal and have a spare Galaxy Nexus sitting around, then we might just have a project for you. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, you can now get an...
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by Derek Kessler
Oct 16, 2012
There's a decent enough photo viewing app on the TouchPad. But that's what it is - decent. Sure, you can run a slideshow on it, but what about putting in music, changing the display order,...
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by Derek Kessler
Oct 15, 2012
Just when you thought things couldn't get any crazier for Open webOS, they have. Industrious developers have already booted the open source successor to webOS onto the Samsung Galaxy Nexus and...
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by Derek Kessler
Oct 14, 2012
Just a few days ago, Sprint confirmed they were exploring the possibility of selling a majority stake of their business to Japanese telecommunications company Softbank. While the deal hasn't yet...
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by Derek Kessler
Oct 13, 2012
It was a little over six months ago that we first reported on the newly formed Phoenix International Communications, a group of dedicated webOS fans that in the wake of HP's decision to cancel...
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by Derek Kessler
Oct 12, 2012
Way back in January one of our wish list items called for something we've seen plenty of on competing platforms: threaded email. We admit to being Gmail addicts, and the threaded email system...
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by Derek Kessler
Oct 12, 2012
When HP decided to offer up webOS as an open source operating system, there was one question nagging at the back of our minds: how is this going to make them money? We're not really concerned...
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by Derek Kessler
Oct 11, 2012
Scrollbars. Seriously, it's 2012. We've had scrollbars since the Xerox Alto in 1973. While the purpose of the scrollbar has changed in the intervening four decades from being the driver of...
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by Derek Kessler
Oct 11, 2012
Quick, name a stat that gets trumpeted at least once a quarter but doesn't really matter much. If you guessed "worldwide PC vendor unit shipment estimates," you're right on the...
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by Derek Kessler
Oct 10, 2012
The webOS Developer Relations Team is continuing on their Enyo and Open webOS warpath. Since the successful Enyo Hackathon back in August, members of the team have dispersed across the globe to...
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by Derek Kessler
Oct 10, 2012
A little over six months ago, Sam Greenblatt was moved away from being the CTO of webOS at HP, bringing to an end a significant amount of headbutting and tension at the upper levels of the webOS...
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by Derek Kessler
Oct 09, 2012
We took a bit of a break on the webOS Wish List to give HP a chance to put out Open webOS 1.0. Now that the open source operating system is out, we've seen a few of our wish list items...
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by Derek Kessler
Oct 09, 2012
The Open webOS porting project to the Samsung Galaxy Nexus is moving along. We've already seen the port in action, and while still a work in progress, that code has been released for public...
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by Derek Kessler
Oct 04, 2012
Less than a week ago, HP released the 1.0 version of Open webOS. The updated open source version of webOS wasn't released in a form ready-to-install on any particular device, but the inclusion...
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by Derek Kessler
Oct 03, 2012
While fans of webOS might feel they've been slighted over the years, our anguish is a different beast than that of the MeeGo fan. If you're not familiar with MeeGo, or even aware of it, we...
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by Derek Kessler
Oct 03, 2012
Maybe it's a good thing the webOS GBU is going to be divorcing splitting itself from HP, as the parent company is gearing up for a year that even has pessimistic analysts and investors caught...
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by Derek Kessler
Oct 01, 2012
It's been over a year since HP discontinued sales, development, and production of webOS devices. There's been no indication for nearly that long that HP intends to produce new webOS hardware...
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by Derek Kessler
Oct 01, 2012
A month ago, intrepid webOS developer Steven Troughton-Smith got to tinkering with the then newly-released Open webOS OpenEmbedded beta, and managed to get it to boot relatively quickly on his Asus...
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by Derek Kessler
Sep 28, 2012
If there was one thing we expected to happen with relative quickness, it was that the industrious developers of WebOS Ports would get the newly released Open webOS 1.0 up and running on modern...
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by Derek Kessler
Sep 28, 2012
So Open webOS 1.0 is finally upon us. It's a complete operating system, in the sense that you can boot it and use it, but it's missing some things and could stand to be improved in some ways...
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by Derek Kessler
Sep 28, 2012
Following the roadmap laid out back in January, HP has delivered Open webOS 1.0 to the masses as planned. Last month saw the release of two betas, one for desktop Linux and the other for assorted...
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by Derek Kessler
Sep 27, 2012
It's been a little while since we last checked in on the LunaCE project, and things are coming along quite nicely. The latest version of the alpha software based on the open source webOS...
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by Derek Kessler
Sep 27, 2012
Thinner. Bigger. Faster. It seems to describe every iteration of smartphones these days, and our friends at iMore got their turn at the ubiquitous dance this year with the release of the iPhone 5....
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by Derek Kessler
Sep 26, 2012
There are plenty of messaging options out there, be it Facebook Chat or Google Talk or Apple's iMessage or plain old SMS. But when it comes to ubiquitous and popular cross-platform mobile chat,...
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by Derek Kessler
Sep 24, 2012
The leaves are turning. The days are growing shorter. The nights are colder, and the days are getting that way too. Autumn is upon us, and that means something very important: Halloween is just...
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by Derek Kessler
Sep 21, 2012
With Open webOS gaining a serious install-anywhere avenue thanks to the release of an OpenEmbedded-enabled version, we've been sitting here wondering for a while what all our soon-to-be-favorite...
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by Derek Kessler
Sep 20, 2012
If you were to turn back the calendar eighteen months, you would find yourself in March 2011. It was a heady time for the webOS community. The Pre3, Veer, and TouchPad had been announced just a...
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