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It seems that all the speculation about HP bringing a webOS tablet to market is starting to come to a head, as HP has reportedly told employees that the company will be aiming to launch Palm-pedigree device – codenamed the “Hurricane,” and possibly to be called the PalmPad – in early 2011. Following on HP’s…
Sprint Palm Pre and Pixi owners waiting for webOS 1.4.5 may have cause to rejoice as this latest update is supposedly rolling out to handsets starting today. The news came way of Sprint which updated its Pre and Pixi webOS changelog with version 1.4.5 details and confirmed the August 10th release date. For those keeping track, the…
Peter Skillman isn’t a household name, but he’s been with Palm for 11 years and is credited with the design of the Pre. Today we find out he’s leaving the sinking ship, and we’ve got no idea where he’s heading next. It makes sense in the grand scheme of things for Peter to do this.…
Hewlett Packard CEO Mark Hurd has resigned immediately after an investigation started surrounding claims of sexual harassment. The HP Board of Directors has appointed Cathie Lesjak, the company’s CFO since January 2007, as the interim CEO while she still performs her duties as CFO and keeps those responsibilities until a permanent CEO is appointed. While…
Do you want a Palm Pre Plus for AT&T? Thinking that $149.99 just might be a little too steep for a piece of hardware that might soon take a back seat to some new HP toys and a new version of webOS? Fear not, your dreams have come true – as long as those dreams…
HP, who in February said they’d support Microsoft and their Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system, but then went ahead and purchased Palm in April for $1.2 billion, has recently said that they’re going to stick to webOS, and only webOS, for their smartphones going forward. Not that HP ever made any good smartphones to…
While the Palm Pixi isn’t exactly a raging success, hackers have still managed to throw a Wi-Fi radio on board the device for a little upgrade. It’s not often that we hear about hardware hackers: these days, all the hacking we ever hear about is jailbreaking this or cooking ROMs that. For fans of Palm…
Fear not, webOS fans, HP has not forgotten or forsaken you! You must have been left wondering what was going on with your favorite mobile operating system after being drowned out by all the iPhone and Android news and handsets. Even Windows Phone 7 has been getting a lot of fanfare and exposure lately! However,…
If you had any doubt that Hewlett-Packard (HP) is prepping a webOS-powered tablet, you can rest assured because the company has applied for a “Palmpad” trademark. That’s quite an interesting choice of name, huh? The company recently wrapped up its $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm and HP said it will “double down” on webOS. This…
My current favorite when it comes to golf GPS applications, GolfLogix, has just added the Palm Pre to its growing list of compatible devices. Other smartphones that already play nice with GolfLogix include the iPhone 3G and 3GS, plus many BlackBerry, Android and Windows Mobile powered devices. If you’ve never used a golf GPS app…