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Verizon, with help from the Asurion Mobile Recovery app, is now going to help you find your lost cell phone with GPS assistance. You can think of it as Find my iPhone, but for Android, BlackBerry and webOS on Verizon’s network. As an extended part of the Total Equipment Coverage protection plan, if you lose…
Telmap announced a version of its popular white-label navigation app, Telmap Navigator, for yet another platform – webOS. The application works with the Palm Pre and Palm Pre Plus devices and is initially released for the O2 customers in Germany, who can download it [application] free of charge. As you may know from some of…
Slacker Radio, a web-based and mobile music streaming service, has just introduced a new subscription tier for on-demand music. What usually happens is Slacker generates a station for you based on a song or artist, which then tweaks upcoming songs based on what you like and what you don’t. The free version is restricted by…
Palm Pre Plus owners have known since day one that the aGPS on this webOS handset is not functioning properly. When using Google Maps on the Pre Plus, it takes several minutes for the handset to find your location, while its VZ Navigator counterpart can pinpoint your position within seconds. This marked difference is related to…
We’ve been anxiously waiting to see what Hewlett-Packard will do with Palm and the webOS platform since the $1.2 billion acquisition but it looks like we may have to wait a bit longer. On his blog, HP’s “innovation czar” Rahul Sood said HP Palm is working on webOS smartphones and connected devices but it could…
After waiting for what feels like an eternity, Palm Pre Plus owners on AT&T and Verizon are finally receiving the webOS 1.4.5 update. While most of the fixes in this update are minor, it does enable PDK application support which is necessary for gaming on the webOS platform. All Verizon Wireless and AT&T customers rocking a…
Another tidbit from that Nielsen survey last week is that a whooping 33% of Android users had opened an in-application advertisement in the last 30 days. The other platforms trailed at 29% of Windows Mobile users, 26% for iPhone owners, 24% in other (presumably made up mostly of feature phones), 22% of Palm OS users,…
The drum beat for Palm webOS 2.0 continues to get louder as some new screen shots of the operating system have popped up online and these show multiple new services and integration with online favorites like Dropbox. The Palm webOS 2.0 beta had been seeded out to developers and we already knew about things like…
PSFreedom, a port of the open source PSGroove jailbreak solution for the Playstation 3, hit the internet last week and it has traveled far and wide since its debut. It is simple in theory – all you need is the code and a device with a USB microcontroller to execute this hack. Now in the…
A beta build of webOS 2.0 was distributed to developers earlier this week and the underlying codebase has yielded up a reference to a virtual keyboard. Those that do not follow webOS may not realize that the mobile OS lacks a virtual keyboard. A virtual keyboard is not necessary on the webOS platform as all…