Archive for the ‘Palm (HP)’ Category
Open WebOS 1.0 Coming in September
Adrian Covert, Gizmodo, 1/25/2012 When HP kinda, sorta killed webOS as a money making endeavor, they promised to keep it alive as an open source project, but offered little in the way of concrete details. According to The Verge they’ve partially pulled back the curtain, revealing that Open webOS 1.0 should arrive in September. Along [...]
In: Mobile Technology, Palm (HP) · Tagged with: HP
HP throws WebOS to open source community
Iain Thomson, The Register, 12/9/2011 HP will bite the bullet and dump the WebOS operating system on the open source community. The company made the announcement, as expected, that it would no longer sell the software and instead will transfer the source code, along with the ENYO application framework for WebOS and the remaining components [...]
In: Android, iPhone, Mobile Technology, Palm (HP) · Tagged with: Cloud, HTC, Samsung
HP readies fresh WebOS update
Tony Smith, Hardware, 12/7/2011 HP CEP Meg Whitman is expected to announce the fate of WebOS next week. If the claimed imminent release of version 3.0.5 of the tablet’n’phone operating system is correct, the omens for the OS may be good. HP released WebOS 3.0.4 in October and its successor’s first Release Candidate has just [...]
In: Mobile Technology, Palm (HP)
What Mobile Consolidation? Canonical Wants Ubuntu On Smartphones, Tablets
Tom Krazit, MocoNews, 10/31/2011 At least one company thinks the world hungers for another mobile operating system. Canonical, the company that builds and maintains Ubuntu Linux, is planning to release a version of their operating system for smartphones and tablets. ZDNet scored an interview with Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth, who discussed plans for mobile Ubuntu [...]
In: Android, Blackberry, iPhone, Mobile Technology, Palm (HP), WinPhone · Tagged with: Linux
Google+ for Android gets key feature: Reshare
Stephen Shankland, CNET News, 8/25/2011 One of the first things I looked for in the Android app for using Google+ was an option to reshare posts with others. Today, Google delivered it. And I’m not alone. Resharing was the top-requested feature for using Google’s social network on mobile devices. “The Google+ Android app update includes [...]
In: Android, iPhone, Mobile Technology, Palm (HP)
Apple’s iOS unaffected by malware as Android exploits surge 76%
Josh Ong, AppleInsider, 8/24/2011 A new study has found that iOS remained untouched by malware during the second quarter, while Android faced 76 percent more threats than in the first quarter, making it the most targeted mobile platform. McAfee detailed the information in its Second Quarter 2011 Threats Report, noting that the “threat landscape of [...]
In: Android, Blackberry, iPhone, Mobile Technology, Palm (HP), Symbian · Tagged with: HP, Malware
Google move hints at Chrome for Android
Stephen Shankland, CNet News, 8/23/2011 Android‘s unbranded browser is coming back into the WebKit fold. The software–called simply “Browser” on Android phones and tablets–is based on the open-source browser engine called WebKit. It’s long been disassociated from it, though, and now Google is trying to reunite the projects in a move that could portend the [...]
In: Android, Blackberry, iPhone, Mobile Technology, Palm (HP) · Tagged with: Linux
AT&T expands its mobile app services
Matt Hamblen. Computerworld. 8/22/2011 Businesses get a fully-managed mobile app development service and cloud storage AT&T has expanded its mobile application services for businesses, offering them a fully-managed service for building apps on various mobile platforms and storage of the apps in AT&T’s cloud. The service, announced today, is available in 220 countries. AT&T didn’t [...]
In: Android, Blackberry, iPhone, Mobile Technology, Palm (HP), WinPhone · Tagged with: AT&T
Apple looks at device-to-device transfers while competition heats up
Casey Johnston, Ars Technica, 7/8/2011 Apple appears to be getting on board with a trend that other companies have already made significant headway on: wirelessly transferring content between devices with different owners. PatentlyApple has dug up a patent application from last year showing the various ways Apple thinks consumers might want to flick, vacuum, or [...]
In: Android, iPhone, Mobile Technology, Palm (HP) · Tagged with: Bluetooth
iOS, Android Big With Developers; Mobile Web Further Along Than You Think
MocoNews.net, 6/8/2011 Android and Apple have the greatest mindshare among mobile developers, but if you were wondering who is the strongest third player right now, walk right past Windows Phone, WebOS and RIM and stop at none other than the mobile web. Research presented by VisionMobile today at the Open Mobile Summit found that while [...]
In: Android, Blackberry, iPhone, Mobile Technology, Palm (HP), Symbian, WinPhone · Tagged with: HP, Nokia