February 23, 2012

The webOS Wish List: Grid date picker

We've for the past several hundred years lived and worked globally under a seven-day week system. We've even adopted a typical calendar layout of seven columns across and engrained the week concept in our minds. That layout has extended to webOS in the Calendar app's month view. But...
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Settlement reached in Palm Profile data loss class action suit

Ah, this takes us back. If you've been around webOS long enough, you might remember the brouhaha of November 2009. Yes, two years back, back when you could get a Palm Pre or a Palm Pixi, on Sprint and only Sprint, the webOS world was rocked by the news that Palm Profile backups were ...
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February 22, 2012

HP signs onto app privacy disclosure agreement

It didn't take long for the big privacy brouhaha to turn out some results, eh? Today the State of California announced that they have brokered an agreement with Amazon, Apple, Google, HP, Microsoft, and Research In Motion regarding the disclosure of privacy policies in mobile apps. The...
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HP Q1 2012 earnings down 38% from last year

The past year has been a tumultuous one for HP, and though things are starting to settle down in Palo Alto, the company's Q1 2012 earnings report doesn't bode well. HP brought in $30 billion of revenue (down 7% from the same quarter last year), from which they netted a profit of $1.5...
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Make a Skype Video Call using the Phone & Video Calls app [webOS 3.0.5]

This tip is only for TouchPad's running webOS 3.0.5 and higher With the latest webOS 3.0.5 update for the TouchPad, it is easy to determine which of your Skype contacts are available for a video call directly from the Phone & Video Calls app and then quickly initiate that call. Once...
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App Re-Review: SmartRunner

Every platform suffers from abandonware - apps that are released, do well, and then aren't updated to reflect changes in user expectations, device APIs, and back-end services. Platforms like webOS and BlackBerry suffer from a rather high rate of abandonware thanks to the turmoil that has...
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February 21, 2012

App Giveaway: 100 copies of Checkbook HD

I an increasingly digital world, there's one part of our financial lives that doesn't seem to have made the leap to ones and zeroes as effectively as online banking and credit cards: the check register. We're stuck, day-in, day-out, logging by hand on a little slip of paper the...
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Time, Inc. officially calls it quits on TouchPad; Time, People, SI, and Fortune to go dark

If there's anybody close to as embarrassed as HP is by how things have gone with regards to the TouchPad , it's got to be the partners they dragged up on that stage at Think Beyond last year. One such partner was Time, Inc., with their then Chief Digital Officer Randall Rothenberg ...
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Fit an app to the entire Pre3 screen

Due to the resolution differences between the Pre3 and all other Pre phones, you may often see a black or flickering bar on the bottom of the Pre3's screen that appears where the notification dashboard would be, even if there are no dashboard icons shown. If you are a Pre3 owner and user of an...
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Fit a Mojo app to the entire Pre3 screen

Due to the resolution differences between the Pre3 and all other Pre phones, you may often see a black or flickering bar on the bottom of the Pre3's screen that appears where the notification dashboard would be, even if there are no dashboard icons shown. If you are a Pre3 owner and user of an...
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