Archive for the ‘Platforms: WebOS’ Category

SFR Leaks Palm Pre 2

October 12th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: WebOS | No Comments »

Though HP has been announcing their commitment to WebOS, the company didn’t shed any light on any upcoming devices yet. French operator SFR did however by announcing the Palm Pre 2.

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Palm Launches WebOS 2.0 SDK

September 6th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: WebOS | No Comments »

Palm has announced the availability of the WebOS 2.0 SDK. WebOS 2.0 is expected to ship later this year and the release of the Beta SDK is a signal that the company is in final stages of development.

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Palm Promotes Third Party Developers

August 27th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: WebOS | No Comments »

Palm has opened up a new webpage to inform companies where to get good quality WebOS development done if they don’t have experience in-house themselves.

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Palm Extends Half Price Promotions

June 29th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: WebOS | No Comments »

Palm has decided it will extend the half-price sale it started on Friday 20th of June for another two weeks. The half-price promotion should have ended by now.

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Shareholders Approve Palm Acquisition

June 28th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: WebOS | No Comments »

During a special meeting, Palm’s shareholders have approved the acquisition of Palm by PC giant HP. The board of Palm had already agreed on the acquisition by the company.

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HP Acquires Palm for $1.2 Billion – UPDATED

April 29th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A, Platforms: WebOS | No Comments »

Big news for Palm today as the device vendor has been acquired by HP. To many, this move came as a surprise as Lenovo seemed to be the last company in the race for the acquisition.

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Palm to Beef up WebOS by Fall

April 26th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: WebOS | No Comments »

During the Palm Developer Day, Palm announced a host of new features for their next WebOS update that is about to happen somewhere during fall 2010 (with the hope they are still around).

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Palm Extends $1 Million Developer Competition

April 14th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: WebOS | No Comments »

In Palm’s Hot Apps Rewards, the company extended the deadline to June 30th. With a special leaderboard, developers are also updated on their performance in the competition.

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Huawei Also Eyeballing Palm

April 14th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: WebOS | No Comments »

Next to HTC, Reuters expects Huawei to already be talking with Palm about a takeover. Huawei is a competitor of HTC that is known for many operator branded phones in Europe and the US.

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HTC Eyeballing Palm

April 14th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: WebOS | No Comments »

According to a story from Bloomberg, HTC is playing around with the ideas of releasing their own mobile operating system or just to acquire Palm. HTC is currently ruling the Android and Windows Mobile markets.