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Palm released webOS 2.0 beta to developers and provided a sneak peek into some of the changes Palm has in store for the webOS platform. From the developer’s documentation, there are six core areas that will receive significant improvement Stacks Stacks builds upon the cards metaphor and links similar cards together into a stack. The…
Verizon is stepping up its game on the prepaid front by offering some killer smartphones for this no-contract service. No longer will customers on Verizon have to choose from the crappy phones that most carriers provide for prepaid plans. It looks like Verizon will begin to offers these devices starting Sept. 2 – every Droid…
Facebook for webOS has received a much needed update to version 1.3. The latest update improves performance and adds some hot new features including selectable feeds, photo tagging, landscape mode, clearing multiple notifications, and more. Though recently announced by Facebook, the new Places feature is not included in this update and remains an iOS exclusive.…
Verizon Palm Pixi Plus owners take heed as webOS 1.4.5 is slated to hit your handset in the next few days. Reports are flowing out of the forums that confirm the update has received the rubber stamp of approval from Verizon and it is gradually appearing on handsets around the country. Palm also released the…
Todd Achilles, whose named couldn’t be more ironic because of the struggle that Palm is facing integrating into HP and that HP is facing in making a credible name for themselves in the smartphone market, is now in charge of both companies sales teams for the Americas. Achilles has experience in this space. He used…
Mark Budgell, who according to his LinkedIn profile is “PR Manager, Social Media Strategy at Hewlett-Packard”, is getting everyone’s panties in a bunch thanks to the picture above that he just uploaded to Twitter. The full text of his tweet suggests that HP may be showing something off at South by Southwest (SXSW) during the…
Palm Pre and Pre Plus owners that enjoy tweaking their handset will be happy to know that UberKernel has finally hit the 1GHz plateau. Released initially as an unstable, developers release, the 1GHz version of UberKernel has finished testing and is now available for prime-time usage. This latest 1GHz version replaces the previous build of…
HP is leveraging its position as a major hardware retailer to push its recently acquired webOS handset lineup. Spotted on HP’s website was an offer for a free Palm Pixi when you purchase a performance ProBook notebook. The ProBook is a business-oriented lineup of notebooks PCs and HP is targeting business users in this handset…
One of the biggest complaints about the Palm webOS platform is the relatively small amount of apps compared to the Apple iPhone and Google Android platforms. But Palm is now flush with cash thanks to the Hewlett-Packard purchase and it is now offering $1 million to attract cool apps. The Palm Hot Apps program will…
If your commute to and from work has been a fuzz, it’s probably because your head was buried in your iPhone while you were playing Angry Birds. The enormously popular game is available also on webOS, Symbian and soon Android. The idea behind the game is to attack pigs with five different types of birds,…