Posts Tagged ‘Palm’

HP Makes WebOS Open Source

December 13th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: WebOS | No Comments »

The soap around Palm’s good old WebOS seems to continue at HP. The company has now announced that it will make the WebOS platform open source. HP acquired Palm and WebOS about one and a half year ago in the hope that it would bring HP the cutting edge technology they needed to become a big player in the smartphone and tablet markets.

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HP to Replace Mojo Framework

November 25th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: WebOS | No Comments »

HP will be replacing the Mojo application development framework with Enyo. Enyo is better prepared for app development within different form factors like tablets.

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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 Hot Apps Winners Announced

July 28th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Game Awards | No Comments »

Palm’s Hot Apps contest has ended and as so, the company announced the winners that didn’t only generate the most traffic, but will also get cash prizes on top of their success.

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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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HTC Will not Acquire Palm

April 23rd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A, Platforms: PalmOS | 2 Comments »

According to Reuters, a source within HTC has confirmed that the Korean cellphone vendor will not be acquiring Palm. HTC decided so after checking Palm’s financials.