Archive for the ‘Platforms: WebOS’ Category

Changewave: iPhone Most Popular OS in the US

April 6th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: BlackBerry, Platforms: iOS, Platforms: WebOS, Platforms: Windows Mobile, Research & Stats | No Comments »

Changewave has sent out a survey to over 4.000 consumers to ask them which phone they own and which smartphone platform they like to own next. Though Android support is growing fast, iPhone is still first.

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iPad Outsells WebOS

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

Apple has all reasons to celebrate the launch of the iPad. While being on sale only a few days, the device already sold more units then Palm sold WebOS based smartphones in the last quarter.

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GDC: Unreal Engine Ready for WebOS

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

While we wrote about the unveiling of Unreal Engine 3 for the iPhone last Wednesday, Palm has now surprised us with the announcement that WebOS will also support UE3 based mobile games.

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Palm Opens Up WebOS with their PDK

March 10th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: WebOS | No Comments »

Though Palm’s WebOS SDK offered very limited possibilities for app and game development, the company has now announced their PDK, Plug-In Developer Kit which will change all that.

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Palm and EA to Provide Free Games to UK Consumers

March 1st, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: WebOS | No Comments »

In order to increase the popularity of Palm’s Pre amongst consumers and to make them aware of Palm’s app store, the company has struck a deal with EA to make several games available for free.

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IDC: Android to be 2nd Mobile OS by 2013

January 27th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: iOS, Platforms: Linux, Platforms: Symbian, Platforms: WebOS, Research & Stats | No Comments »

IDC expects Android to be the second biggest smartphone operating system by 2013. By that time, there will be over 390 Million devices in the market that have Google’s OS installed.

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WebOS Goes 3D

January 10th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: WebOS | No Comments »

This week seems to be all about Palm. First their App Catalog came close to 1K app, then they opened up commercial apps to European developers and they opened up their developer program to the global demographic.

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Palm to bring Paid Apps to Europe

January 4th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: WebOS | No Comments »

Palm has announced that European developers can start spreading paid apps on the App Catalog from March 2010 onward. The company saw 600 paid apps launch in the past two months.

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App Catalog Reaches 1K Apps This Month

January 4th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: WebOS | No Comments »

Palm's App Catalog has nearly reached a milestone of one thousand apps and games, hardly a year after Palm released the first WebOS based mobile phone.

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adMob Launches on WebOS

December 7th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: WebOS | 1 Comment »

adMob has been very successful on platforms like the iPhone, but Palm’s WebOS was still uncovered by the company. To support developers, the company released an open source SDK for ad invocation.