Slacker now offering on-demand streaming music
Slacker's premium mobile music service is now offering on-demand mobile music streaming for $10 per month. Slacker's free music service generates a station for you based on a song or artist and finds...
View ArticleThird party Twitter apps will have to ask permission before showing “direct...
Twitter has announced that starting by the end of this month third party apps will have to ask you for permission before they can access your Twitter direct messages. The move will certainly give users...
View ArticleMojo app support appears in HP TouchPad Emulator Beta 5
One issue which has reared its ugly head on most current tablet OSes is how to deal with legacy apps. For the upcoming HP TouchPad and the shiny, new webOS 3, the challenge is how to handle apps...
View ArticleHP is willing to let other companies license webOS
HP may have acquired Palm just to get its hands on the webOS operating system (does a company have hands?), but HP CEO Leo Apotheker says the company isn't ruling out the possibility of sharing webOS...
View ArticleHP opens the door to webOS 3.0 app submissions, in-app purchases
HP has started accepting webOS 3.0 apps designed for the upcoming HP TouchPad tablet. The company released an SDK (software developer kit) for the operating system in February, but now developers can...
View ArticleHP in talks to license webOS for competitors’ phones, tablets
HP contends that one of the strengths of the webOS platform is that the company controls both the hardware and the software, allowing HP to tightly control the user experience of the TouchPad tablet...
View ArticleWordPress finally launches a full-featured mobile blogging app — for webOS
Popular blogging service WordPress has been offering mobile apps for writing posts, editing comments, and generally managing your blog for a few years. But the company's iOS and Android apps have never...
View ArticleHP Play beta syncs music between your PC and webOS phone or tablet
HP has launched a public beta of HP Play -- a new application designed to let you synchronize your media between a PC or Mac and an HP TouchPad tablet or webOS phone. The software is based on the open...
View ArticleAmazon Kindle app now available for the HP TouchPad
One of the biggest complaints early reviewers have had about the HP TouchPad tablet is the lack of high quality apps available for webOS 3.0. In fact, some of the apps HP had promised would be...
View ArticleGetJar free app store surpasses 2 billion total downloads
App store GetJar has announced that it's garnered over 2 billion total downloads. GetJar sports a large catalog of free applications for pretty much every smartphone platform except iOS, including...
View ArticleIt’s the end of webOS as we know it: HP kills the TouchPad, Pre, Veer
About a year and a half ago Hewlett Packard bought Palm for $1.2 billion. The company had big plans for the webOS operating system, and planned to launch phones, tablets, and other products... even...
View ArticleHP: webOS isn’t quite dead yet… we’re just not sure what to do with it
HP announced today that the company would discontinue its webOS hardware products in the fourth quarter of 2011. That means we can say goodbye to the HP TouchPad tablet and the HP Pre, Veer, and other...
View ArticleMicrosoft courts webOS developers while HP tries to hang onto them
Following HP's announcement that it would discontinue all webOS hardware including smartphones and tablets, Microsoft's Brandon Walsh reached out to webOS developers, promising free phones and other...
View ArticleSamsung won’t be buying webOS from HP
HP is killing off its webOS hardware division, which means pretty soon there will be no more HP TouchPad, Pre or Veer devices. But the company still has high hopes fro the webOS software. HP may still...
View ArticleGuardian: HP will probably kill off webOS soon
Officially HP hasn't yet decided whether to kill off its webOS division. Unofficially, The Guardian reports it's probably going to happen. During a conference call discussing the decision not to spin...
View ArticleHP is done updating webOS for the Palm Pre3
The future of HP's webOS operating system remains uncertain. While the company canceled all current webOS smartphones and tablets this summer, HP has continued to push out software updates for the...
View ArticleAbout 4.2 million people have registered webOS devices… ever
Have you ever wondered how many webOS devices Palm and HP sold before unceremoniously cancelling the latest webOS phones and tablets this summer? About 4.2 million. The folks at webOS Internals have...
View ArticleHP releases webOS 2.2.4, brings Skype to more phones
HP may have canceled the Pre 2 smartphone, but the company is still rolling out software updates... for now. This week HP released webOS 2.2.5 for some Pre 2 handsets, adding new features including:...
View ArticlewebOS goes open source soon, hacker already porting it to Android hardware
HP has announced plans to release webOS as an open source project soon, but while the source code isn't available yet some folks have already started working to port webOS to run on hardware originally...
View ArticlePhoenix Devices hopes to keep webOS alive, port it to existing hardware
After the failure of the HP TouchPad tablet and Pre and Veer smartphones, HP discontinued all of its webOS hardware last year. But the company didn't kill off the operating system. Instead, HP has...
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