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by Derek Kessler
Aug 30, 2012
This time last year saw one of the greatest moments in homebrew history we've ever witnessed: the webOS community came together and raised a whopping $16,699.26 to support WebOS Internals. It...
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by Derek Kessler
Aug 30, 2012
We've been watching what's going down over in Berlin at IFA 2012 mostly out of interest in seeing what devices we might maybe someday possibly be able to install Open webOS on, but then HP...
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by Derek Kessler
Aug 29, 2012
Just two weeks ago LunaCE was released by WebOS Ports in alpha status. The homebrewed improvement to the LunaSysMgr that was released as part of HP's webOS Community Edition project brought a...
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by Derek Kessler
Aug 28, 2012
A few days back Google made a change somewhere along the line that kicked webOS users back into the horrid days of WAP browsers. It was a change that shook us to our core as we were reduced to a...
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by Derek Kessler
Aug 28, 2012
August 15, 2012 was the last day the webOS App Catalog successfully received new or updated apps. That's nearly two weeks ago at the point that we published this post. The newest apps were...
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by Derek Kessler
Aug 28, 2012
If you've been wandering about the App Catalog looking for a way to entertain yourself, you might have noticed that webOS games tend to be a bit on the pricey side, at least as far as tablet-...
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by Derek Kessler
Aug 27, 2012
Tiring of seeing "Verizon" or "AT&T" or whatever carrier you're on's name staring back at you every day from your phone. You know what network you're on, you don...
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by Derek Kessler
Aug 24, 2012
Today was an unexpectedly exciting day in the mobile technology space, though we in the webOS Nation were pretty much bystanders as the epic battle of Apple vs. Samsung (Case no. 11-CV-01846-LHK in...
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by Derek Kessler
Aug 24, 2012
Here's hoping you like your Google Search results severed up as if you're using a Treo, because for at least the past week if you've been using a webOS smartphone, that's what you...
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by Derek Kessler
Aug 22, 2012
Following up on the Enyo Hackathon earlier this month at the Palm campus in Sunnyvale, HP's taking the Enyo framework show on the road with one-day Enyo Bootcamp events in Boston on August 28,...
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by Derek Kessler
Aug 22, 2012
Ten months ago, a report surfaced that HP was "actively meeting with a number of interested buyers" for their webOS hardware - two months prior HP had cancelled webOS hardware development...
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by Derek Kessler
Aug 22, 2012
Hewlett-Packard today posted their results for the third quarter of 2012, raking in $29.7 billion in revenue, but still posting a loss of $8.9 billion. That $8.9 billion includes an already...
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by Derek Kessler
Aug 20, 2012
Back in April the homebrew community stepped up to take on vacancy left by HP's abandonment of the App Catalog magazine, Pivot. It's taken a while to pull together the people and expertise...
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by Derek Kessler
Aug 18, 2012
August 17, 2011 was a weird day. The day prior the HP Pre3 became available in the UK with nary an announcement to herald its arrival. The 17th saw the surprise release of the white 64GB TouchPad in...
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by Derek Kessler
Aug 17, 2012
Almost exactly a year after HP announced the cancellation of all webOS hardware development, kicking off a fire sale of the remaining devices and an exodus of high- and low-level talent within the...
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by Derek Kessler
Aug 16, 2012
HP released the webOS 3.0.5 LunaSysMgr component to open source back in late June and worked with webOS homebrew pioneers WebOS Internals to put together the WebOS Ports group to guide development...
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by Derek Kessler
Aug 16, 2012
A good web address is a hard thing to come across. That's a lesson we learned when we were figuring out the identity for this site when we realized that PreCentral just wasn't going to cut...
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by Derek Kessler
Aug 16, 2012
Well folks, it's all come down to this. After taking hundreds of haiku entries and having the wider webOS Nation community to vote on the finalists, the time has come to reveal the winner. And...
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by Derek Kessler
Aug 15, 2012
HP's charging ahead with their Windows 8 tablet plans, and they're not going to let anyone, least of which OS-supplier and OEM competitor Microsoft hold them back. HP's also not letting...
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by Derek Kessler
Aug 14, 2012
If you've been wondering where HP's webOS Global Business Unit was going under the leadership of HP Chief of Staff Martin Risau, you're not alone. For a while now we've been...
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by Derek Kessler
Aug 14, 2012
webOS has since the beginning offered help for your organizational needs, what with Memos and Tasks and whatnot, but sometimes - scratch that - often times you need something more robust, more...
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by Derek Kessler
Aug 10, 2012
Therapy venting
More than four hundred entries
Finalists; your vote
You all rock. With well more than four hundred entries it took us a while to sort through and find the best poems submitted for...
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by Derek Kessler
Aug 09, 2012
This month is supposed to finally bring the release of Open webOS 1.0. And while you won't be able to install it on pretty much anything, let alone your current webOS devices (at least out of...
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by Derek Kessler
Aug 08, 2012
This week brought the aboslutely mind blowing story of how Wired's Mat Honan got hacked in practically every possible way. It's a good read, and a frightening look at just how fragile our...
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by Derek Kessler
Aug 08, 2012
HP's getting really good at burying bad news under mundane announcements. Today's news came in the form of a press release detailing organizational changes for the tech giant's...
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by Derek Kessler
Aug 07, 2012
HP's newest advertising campaign struck us at webOS Nation as interesting, if not outright ironic given the part of HP that we cover. It's an aspirational concept: "Make it matter...
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by Derek Kessler
Aug 06, 2012
What is it? Don't know for sure, but our assumptions from the peeks of this tablet we got last week still stand: It's HP's first Windows 8-powered tablet, and it doesn't look half...
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by Derek Kessler
Aug 06, 2012
The TouchPad browser supports bookmarking, but you don't get any of the deeper options like you do with a desktop browser, like putting together folders to keep it all organized. For that, there...
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by Derek Kessler
Aug 05, 2012
We had a few days to process the news that HP was officially not going to support the TouchPad and other older webOS devices with Open webOS. The announcement didn't go over well with the webOS...
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by Derek Kessler
Aug 05, 2012
At today's Enyo Hackathon in Sunnyvale I had the opportunity to sit down for a chat with Tom King, the man leading the charge for the WebOS Ports initiative. King's not an HP employee or...
