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If you're going to do something, make it matter
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If you're going to do something, make it matter
by Derek Kessler
Aug 07, 2012
HP's newest advertising campaign struck us at webOS Nation as interesting, if not outright ironic given the part of HP that we cover. It's an aspirational concept: "Make it matter...
How do you feel about HP not supporting older devices in Open webOS?
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How do you feel about HP not supporting older devices in Open webOS?
by Derek Kessler
Aug 05, 2012
We had a few days to process the news that HP was officially not going to support the TouchPad and other older webOS devices with Open webOS. The announcement didn't go over well with the webOS...
WP Central
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WebOS Ports, Community Edition, and how this all works
by Derek Kessler
Aug 05, 2012
At today's Enyo Hackathon in Sunnyvale I had the opportunity to sit down for a chat with Tom King, the man leading the charge for the WebOS Ports initiative. King's not an HP employee or...
Why HP chose not to support the TouchPad with Open webOS: priorities
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Why HP chose not to support the TouchPad with Open webOS: priorities
by Derek Kessler
Aug 03, 2012
With one paragraph posted three days ago, HP's Open webOS team kicked off a storm in the webOS Nation community: Open webOS would not support any existing webOS devices, including the HP...
What mobile devices might support Open webOS? Think Nexus, think N9
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What mobile devices might support Open webOS? Think Nexus, think N9
by Derek Kessler
Jul 31, 2012
So with today's news that HP's not going to make Open webOS compatible with existing webOS devices, what devices can we expect to get support? As they said in their announcement today, HP is...
Open webOS LunaSysMgr and core apps released ahead of schedule
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Open webOS LunaSysMgr and core apps released to open source
by Derek Kessler
Jul 31, 2012
In typical Open webOS team fashion, the releases for this month have come right at the very end of the month. While the System Manager Bus saw an early release back in April, this month's...
webOS Community Edition gets card stack management that makes sense
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webOS Community Edition gets card stack management that makes sense
by Derek Kessler
Jul 17, 2012
How do we love the work going into improving the open source webOS Community Edition? Let us count the ways… While we're counting, we're going to direct you to the video above, posted...
webOS Internals has an easy-to-use virtual machine to build webOS Community Edit
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webOS Internals has an easy-to-use virtual machine to build webOS Community Edition
by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 11, 2012
If you've been itching to get in on the action and build yourself a little bit of webOS Community Edition, the folks at WebOS Internals have once again stepped things up to help. Building and...
webOS 3.0.5 'Community Edition' released to open source
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webOS 3.0.5 'Community Edition' released to open source
by Derek Kessler
Jun 26, 2012
As promised back in March, HP today released to open source some large chunks of webOS 3.0.5 as the new "Community Edition". The Community Edition of webOS is meant for, well, the homebrew...
Ares 2 opened up, Enyo 2 updated with improved scrolling and lists
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Ares 2 opened up, Enyo 2 updated with improved scrolling and lists
by Derek Kessler
Apr 27, 2012
With the runway from April showers into May flowers growing short, HP is closing out the week by making good on their April code commitments for webOS. What can you expect to find in HP's...