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HP donated a $10k server to the WebOS hacking community

February 14th, 2011 · No Comments · Uncategorized

On Thursday of last week, the WebOS Internals homebrew group announced that HP would be giving them a brand new  $10,000 web server. A few weeks ago they realized that the growth of the WebOS community would soon outpace the server infrastructure that WebOS Internals currently has in place. They were going to need some [...]

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Blio coming to the HP Touchpad

February 10th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized

Mike Cane just tipped me to this hint that was dropped during the Touchpad press conference yesterday. As you know, the Touchpad will have a number of reading app options. The first app mentioned is Blio. It doesn’t appear to have been announced yet. At least, not that I can find. All I have so [...]

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HP Exec Bradley: WebOS won’t be licensed

September 27th, 2010 · 2 Comments · hardware news

TechCrunch just posted a summary of an interview with Todd Bradley, the Executive VP for the Personal Systems Group. There are a number of interesting details in the article, but this is what caught my eye: The strategy with webOS is not just the OS but it’s also to have a consistent interface from phones [...]

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Docs2Go for WebOS canceled, developer got bought out by RIM

September 7th, 2010 · No Comments · software news

I’ve been hearing the rumor about RIM buying DataViz for about a week now. Crackberry found some evidence that made up my mind that this almost certainly happened: DataViz, makers of the popular Documents To Go application, announced sad news today for Palm fans. Though the company started out developing for Palm, they are not [...]

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WebOS tablet coming in October

May 21st, 2010 · 1 Comment · hardware rumors

That’s the info I have from a fairly unreliable source, Digitimes. HP is also not going to do a WebOS netbook. Note that I said the source is unreliable. I rate this as a rumor, myself.

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HP to release WebOS tablets

May 18th, 2010 · No Comments · hp, Uncategorized, webos

Just about an hour ago someone with HP tweeted the following: Hurd: after @Palm close expect to leverage webOS “beyond smart phones into form factors such as slates and web-connected printers” $HPQ Okay, now I understand why they bought Palm. BTW, there’s already an independent project to get WebOS running on PC hardware: via PreCentral [...]

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