webos

HP’s webOS 3.0 beta rolled out to Early Access members

Published on: 1st April, 2011

At the webOS Connect event which took place recently in London, HP declared that it has launched the webOS 3.0 Beta Software Development Kit designed for the TouchPad tablet. This new software is available only for Early Access developers, but it seems that it is relatively easy to join this program. The company will also [...]

HP’s TouchPad may be out in June; reaching 100 million webOS devices soon

Published on: 16th March, 2011

In his major strategy briefing, Leo Apotheker, HP chief, has recently announced an aggressive webOS plan. He anticipated that the TouchPad and smartphones such as the Pre3 and Veer could all start shipping before June and could be part of wave after wave of launches. HP ultimately hoped to ship around 100 million webOS devices, [...]

HP says older webOS applications would run in a shell on TouchPad

Published on: 20th February, 2011

Ben Combee, HP developer, announced a few days ago that older webOS applications would run on the TouchPad. The tablet, as well as other devices with webOS 3.0, would run applications made in the old Mojo kit. A simple onscreen gesture space would run a small application on the larger screen. However, scaling up would [...]

Leak reveals webOS tablet user interface features

Published on: 30th January, 2011

A recent leak has revealed how webOS would work on the Opal and Topaz tablets of Hewlett Packard as well as on touch-only smartphones to be released in the future. On a larger screen, the interface will be split into several panels according to the size of the screen the device has. For instance, on [...]

Hewlett Packard hiring for webOS

Published on: 11th January, 2011

Hewlett Packard and Palm, through their recruiters, are trying to hire many software engineers and programmers, as posts on SimplyHired, LinkedIn and Palm’s web page show. Among the positions to be filled there is one for a senior software engineer for e-mail synchronization, another one for a senior manager dedicated to information and product security, [...]

AdMob and Google Maps leaders leaving Google

Published on: 8th November, 2010

Two major staff leaves have been announced by Google, as the company will lose two of its important leaders. Omar Hamoui, AdMob CEO, is leaving for personal reasons. The departure was considered amicable and contributing to the mobile revenue of $1 billion across iOS, Android and other platforms that Google serves with ads. Niren Hiro, [...]

Palm hunting Jaaksi from Nokia and Samsung executive for its revival

Published on: 21st October, 2010

The Palm team of Hewlett Packard has made a couple of key hires in its attempt of rekindling its smartphone plans. A source has revealed that Palm was triggering the sudden departure of Ari Jaaksi, Nokia’s MeeGo head, who would receive the position of senior vice president of webOS engineering. He is expected to start [...]

First official PalmPad webOS tablet reference made by HP executive

Published on: 5th October, 2010

Hewlett Packard executive Todd Bradley has for the first time referred to the upcoming webOS tablet of the company, giving it a name. The executive vice president of the Personal Systems Group, at an analyst meeting, said that HP would push the product range beyond smartphones and would introduce a “webOS-powered PalmPad”, which would be [...]

WebOS tablet confirmed by Hewlett Packard for 2011

Published on: 24th August, 2010

During a conference call in which the latest fiscal results were discussed, Hewlett Packard confirmed to have moved its webOS tablet to 2011. Personal Systems Group Vice President Todd Bradley answered a question regarding the so-called weakness of the company in the notebook area due mainly to the iPad and said that the new device, [...]

Coalition to boost creation of Linux-based devices

Published on: 9th June, 2010

Important electronic producers have formed a coalition with the declared goal of boosting the creation of devices based on Linux. ARM, Freescale, Texas Instruments, IBM, ST-Ericsson and Samsung are all partners of Linaro in this project and will provide software and tools meant to encourage the creation of open-source tablets and other devices in an [...]

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