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Todd Bradley, the executive vice president for Hewlett-Packard’s Personal Systems Group, sat down with CNBC for a CES interview last week. During this interview, Bradley confirmed that webOS will be HP’s tablet solution and singled out the mobile operating system as the strategic reason that HP bought Palm last summer. HP has scheduled a press…
Online grocer Peapod updated its PeapodMobile application for the iPhone, Android and Palm Pre users. Included in this release is the ability to view the latest product arrivals on the homepage (New Arrivals); ability to sort items by size, price, calories and more; and support for both landscape and portrait screen orientations. Perhaps more important…
A 4G LTE version of a Palm webOS handset may have been accidentally outed by Verizon Wireless. Verizon has a staging website, testman.verizonwireless.com, that the carrier uses to test website updates. The changes that appear on this website are usually minor and include such features as handset reviews which appeared on the testman website a…
HP Palm (is that what the firm is now known as?) has started sending out invitations to “an exiting webOS announcement” due to take place on February 9th in San Francisco, California at 10:00 in the morning. The text at the top of the invite reads “Think big. Think small. Think beyond.” which can have…
The Verizon Palm Pre 2 was recently spotted in Best Buy’s inventory system and now the elusive handset has made its appearance on Walmart’s wireless website. The listing details the now familiar features of the handset and it is expectedly not available. Availability is an issue that has plagued the Verizon handset since it was…
The Pre 2 is the first handset Palm has made since they were rescued from complete deterioration by HP and given what you might call a third wind. Despite the fact that webOS brought a lot of cool stuff to the table when it was introduced two years ago, like live thumbnails in multitasking, gesture…
HP and Palm announced the Pre 2 way back in October, and die-hard Pre fans have been waiting for the successor with limited patience. Of course, it’s not a tremendous upgrade to the original, but for those looking to hang onto the Pre and yearning for a little more – like a glass screen and…
Peter Vesterbacka, one founding developer of Angry Birds, is assuming the role of Rovio Mobile’s public face. In this latest public showing, Vesterbacka, also known as the “Mighty Eagle,” has comments on a wide range of mobile development topics and discusses the background history of Angry Birds in an interview he did with Tech n’…
The past year has been a rocky one for Palm and its webOS operating system. After a last ditch effort to save its struggling handset business with the Palm Pre and the Palm Pixi, the Sunnyvale company was acquired by Hewlett-Packard. This acquisition by HP slowed down development and Palm was only able to roll…
We all know that Palm is readying an Apple iPad competitor for early next year and a few more details about the PalmPad have leaked. The folks at Fox News got the scoop and the image above, as the PalmPad is expected to be unveiled at the CES trade show in early January and it…