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Jason Robitaille to join Enyo team for summer internship
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by Arthur Thornton
May 05, 2012
Homebrew extraordinaire Jason Robitaille, the creator of webOS Quick Install, Comic Shelf (and its big sibling, Comic Shelf HD), Internalz, Internalz Pro, and many other apps, dozens of patches, and...
Ares 2 opened up, Enyo 2 updated with improved scrolling and lists
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by Derek Kessler
Apr 27, 2012
With the runway from April showers into May flowers growing short, HP is closing out the week by making good on their April code commitments for webOS. What can you expect to find in HP's...
Open webOS build scripts sneak out onto GitHub
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by Arthur Thornton
Apr 25, 2012
Build scripts for the desktop version of Open webOS have managed to sneak out onto the Github code repository belonging to webOS Engineering team member Anupam Kaul. Before you get too excited,...
webOS 2.2.5 and 3.0.6 caught in testing logs
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by Ryan St. Andrie
Apr 23, 2012
After HP announced that webOS would be going open source way back in December we honestly thought we would never see another webOS update until the planned September release of Open webOS 1.0. Then...
Could a Kickstarter campaign raise enough to make new webOS devices?
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by Derek Kessler
Apr 19, 2012
There's been a big question mark hanging over webOS since HP announced their plans to open source the operating system: then what? Come September, assuming HP has met their roadmap obligations,...
Novacom USB communication toolset released to open source
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by Derek Kessler
Mar 29, 2012
Today saw yet another release along the Open webOS roadmap, with Novacom and Novacomd finding their way onto GitHub. The two pieces comprise a generic communication toolset used to communicate...
Sam Greenblatt out as webOS chief, new leadership not yet announced
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by Derek Kessler
Mar 29, 2012
We've been hearing rumblings of tension within the leadership of HP's Open webOS unit, and today we've learned that webOS CTO Sam Greenblatt is transitioning away from his leadership...
Half a billion dollars, the lottery, and webOS
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by Derek Kessler
Mar 28, 2012
Even if you've only been casually following the news this week, you've likely heard the big story. No, it's not that the Supreme Court is debating the constitutionality Obama's...
Open webOS gets a website all its own, Nyx hardware abstraction layer gets a rel
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by Derek Kessler
Mar 20, 2012
The march towards a fully open source webOS continues, with today seeing the release of the Nyx hardware abstraction layer. As described on the nyx-lib GitHub repository, "Nyx is the webOS...
Open webOS open source branding competition winner
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by Derek Kessler
Mar 20, 2012
Unsurprisingly, our call for people to lay out their vision for branding for Open webOS drew a lot of awesome entries. Surprisingly, HP liked it enough that wanted to get involved, pitching in a...