Tag Archives: webOS

preNotes: The Veer Camera

I really enjoyed using my Veer to take and share photos at CES this year. If you like to snap lots of pictures with your Veer there are some good things to know and you can hear about it …

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preNotes: Graphite for webOS

The popular Carbon for webOS has a big brother now. Graphite for webOS brings the main features of Carbon to the Touchpad while adding a few new twists. I have been using it for several weeks and you can …

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Mugen Batteries Sends the Pre 3 Some Extended Love

Some of us have been wondering, what happens if the battery in my Pre 3 dies? HP certainly isn’t going to make any more. They never even really released the phone except for about a minute and a half in France. …

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Chuq Von Raspach Swings To A New Banana Tree

We can live without
Kerris or Phil McKinney
But Damnit, not @Chuq
–@webOSHaiku
That’s right folks.  You know him on twitter simply as @chuq. Chuq Von Raspach, manager and over all genius at Developer Relations announced he’s moving on to a new opportunity …

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All Hands Meeting Tomorrow to Bring Answers…maybe

10 months.

Almost exactly 10 months, to the minute, after Think Beyond, Meg Whitman is set to announce the final fate of webOS. We think.  Pretty sure anyway. Maybe.

Meg Whitman has called and is expected to attend an all-hands meeting …

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HP Internally Values webOS At $315 Million

Hewlett-Packard stated in their earnings call that webOS has an impairment expense of approximately $885 million. This means that, at least internally, HP values webOS at $315 million. This figure matches recent rumors that HP is investigating the sale …

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HP Loses $3.3 Billion on webOS Over Past Fiscal Year

Hewlett-Packard released their Quarter 4/Fiscal Year 2011 report earlier today and there’s an interesting, if not unfortunate segment relating to webOS. Apparently, HP is reporting an after-tax loss of $3.3 billion over the past fiscal year. What’s more disturbing …

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preNotes: Hidden Menus

Ok, there actually not hidden, you just have to know where to tap to find them. I was at a recent webOS Meetup and found the Kindle reader tools, duh, right there, and you can hear about it on …

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“Dear HP…” From: Chicago webOS Meetup

 

After the news hit that HP still needs up to another month to determine what to do with the webOS platform, things are as uncertain as ever for the fans and the developers. That did not however stop members …

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WebOSInternals Illustrates the Rise of the webOS User Base

WebOSInternals is at it again! This time, not with patches and homebrew, but with some statistical data gathered via crowd-sourcing. Specifically, WebOSInternals has brought us a graph showing the rise of the webOS user base by gathering data from the community. …

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[UPDATE] TouchPad Developer Device Purchase Program Back?

HP recently posted a new page on the webOS Developer site. A “Developer Device Purchase Program” page! This means that now, for a limited time, if you are a developer, you can purchase the infamous TouchPad! Here are the …

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Phil McKinney Retiring

We’ve seen our fair share of folks come and go from the world of HP and Palm (ed. Note- mostly go, unfortunately) but this latest one is a sad one to say for sure. Phil McKinney is one of …

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