Palm has been sending out e-mails to the webOS developer community to let them know that not only are they waiving the $50/app submission fee to get into the Catalog, they’re refunding all previous fees to their respective developers. At last count, there were 2,000 apps in the catalog, meaning the refunds will cost Palm…
The Missing Sync for Palm Pre and Pixi Updated with Notes and Tasks Support
A quick note here for all of the Palm Pre and Palm Pixi users out there. The great team at Mark/Space have been up to their old tricks again, and have updated The Missing Sync for your webOS-powered device. The update brings us up to version 1.2, and the application will now synchronize notes and…
Flash 10.1 for Mobile Released by Adobe to Partners
Adobe has announced that after a series of betas, the mobile version of their Flash player is production-ready and now available to partners. Android gets a lot of attention in the press release, confirming that the Flash player will be baked right into 2.2 (a.k.a. Froyo), but BlackBerry, webOS, Windows Phone, Linux Mobile, MeeGo, and…
Deal alert: Most webOS apps are now half the price!
This one’s for our readers with Palm Pre (Plus) and Pixi (Plus) devices. You’ll be glad to know that nearly every app in the U.S. Palm App Catalog is available at half price! There are a handful of exceptions, but as I said – most apps are offered at a 50% discount. This discount period…
Palm still in the dark when it comes to Flash for webOS
Palm has had the Flash plug-in since webOS was updated to version 1.4 way back in February. Since then, there’s been almost no news on the progress of actually getting it built into the OS. That has Palm announcing today that they don’t know what’s taking Adobe so long in porting Flash 10.1 Player integrated…
Palm Says New webOS Hardware and refreshed webOS Coming Next Year
It feels like it’s been ages since the Palm Pre was released and webOS first made its debut. The slate-style Pixi that came along was decent, but not great, and the refreshes that came in the “Plus” versions of both weren’t groundbreaking or exciting. Since then, Palm has gone through a lot with layoffs and…
Deal Alert: AT&T and Verizon Palm Pre Plus just one cent for June
For those of you out there that aren’t really keen on the Android superphones already on or coming to market in the near future – not to mention the new iPhone 4 dropping next week – your best alternative right now might be the Palm Pre Plus from AT&T or Verizon. Powered by the webOS,…
Palm executive and employees dropping like flies?
It looks like a number of Palm executives are stepping down, or getting canned, after HP’s acquisition of the company back in April. Who is actually leaving, and specific reasons for leaving are unknown at this point, but as TechCrunch points out, “HP didn’t buy Palm for the management team.” Clearly, HP decided to put…
Google mobile search now answers short questions
Google is hoping to make it easier to settle bar bets, as the search giant has added the ability for mobile users to get the answers to short questions. Sure, you could always turn to Google to find information but it’s never been that great at directly answering questions. For example, if you want to…
Guy who invented Palm’s webOS notifications becomes Senior User Interface Designer at Apple
Rich Dellinger, who according to his LinkedIn profile was the “User Interface Design Architect” at Palm between July 2006 and May 2010 (3 years 11 months) and whose roles included: Acted as visual designer, interaction designer, and engineer on Palm webOS. Co-developed the Application Framework used by webOS. Created the CSS structure and defined HTML…