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Giveaway: HP Fires 275 webOS Employees, We Give Away a Pre Case
HP yesterday announced plans to lay off 275 webOS team members, mostly engineers. The move comes as HP cuts costs after posting extremely poor financial numbers last quarter, and faces further financial troubles ahead of the launches of Windows 8, and an unclear future for webOS in the device market. But you don’t care about […]
HP Releases TouchPad’s Android Debug Kernel Source Code
As we previously reported, HP was under fire by the open source community for refusing to release the source code for the Android kernel that they accidentally released for the HP TouchPad. The Android kernel was based on Qualcomm’s reference Android source code, and was used by HP internally to accelerate the release of the […]
Jon Rubenstein Leaves HP
The last vestiges of Palm have left HP, as All Things D and multiple other sources have confirmed in the last hour that the former Palm CEO and technical mastermind behind webOS has officially left HP after serving his initial commitment of 12-24 months following the acquisition by HP in 2010 after struggles in the […]
HP Releases Enyo 2.0 As Open Source, Provides Roadmap for webOS
HP today issued two updates on their new mobile open source initiatives. The company made good on its commitment to open-source Enyo, its JavaScript framework that was announced alongside webOS 3.0 last year. In an effort to make Enyo more palatable for widespread use, Enyo 2.0 was released today, along with the source code for […]
webOS Community Testing 2.2.4 Update for Original Pre, Pre Plus
Despite HP not delivering on a promised webOS 2.0 upgrade for all first-generation webOS devices, the webOS community is still at it. While unofficially upgrading the Pre and Pre Plus to webOS 2.0 (via the webOS Internals’ meta-doctor project) is nothing new, progress stalled out at webOS version 2.1. Since then, webOS 2.2 has provided […]
HP Releases New TouchPad 3.0.5.86 Update
HP has released the latest maintenance update for the HP TouchPad following last month’s conformation that it would open source webOS and subsequent confirmation of the update and adds the following features and fixes: Faster switching between Day, Week, and Month views, and faster event display in Calendar. Faster scrolling when reading an email message. […]
Editorial: Ten Things HP Can Do (Quickly) To Reboot webOS
In the wake of HP re-committing to webOS (as an open source project), we go in-depth with ten things HP could do to bring the platform back into competition with Android, iOS, and Windows Phone. Also as an added bonus, something yours truly blew thousands of dollars on.
HP Pre 3 Updated to webOS 2.2.4, Becomes Mule for Future webOS Development
The HP Pre 3 never was officially sold in the United States, though it came so close that thousands of AT&T-branded units were built and, eventually, liquidated to eBay sellers. As such, the most powerful webOS phone made to-date has received the least attention in HP’s home country. AT&T aborted the stateside launch of the […]
HP to Keep webOS Alive by Open Sourcing Platform
HP reboots webOS by handing it to the open source world. The long-awaited decision also means HP will commit to a multi-year restructuring for webOS, complete with new devices to come in future years.