It looks like the HP servers are finally off. It makes sense: The two previously suggested dates for this were both the fifteenth of the month. Aside from the fact of the closure, there is little to complain about. There was a two month extension of the original date and we’ve had an extra month on that to get back up copies of our apps.
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News Crumbs – 8th April 2015
At this time of year the webOS toaster is popping up a lot of hot cross buns, but any time of year is the right time for toasted fruit buns! Let’s shake out some crumbs:
- Thanks to user feedback, Garfonso’s made a few tweaks to his C+DAV patches. Check that you are up to date.
- There is also a Google maps update.
- An article by Palm founder and AI researcher, Jeff Hawkins:
The Terminator Is Not Coming. The Future Will Thank Us. | Re/code - Sliders are back? What about open boot loaders and drivers? Yes we’re hoping for possible LuneOS port candidates and noticing that previews of the future look like the Pre of the past! Does this look familiar?
Mozilla just announced flip and slider phones at a press event in 2015 | The Verge
BlackBerry will release a curved-screen slider phone later this year | Engadget
BlackBerry plans to launch a sliding ‘dual-curved display’ phone this year | The Verge - Not exactly webOS, but those of you using Metaview’s webOS watch app with a pebble, might want to take a look at this new watchface he has created.
- Good News from webOS legend Jason Robitaille: He is joining LG’s silicon valley lab. How many on this forum are hoping for support to be added to webOS Quick Install?
- This mobile nations update includes a tribute to forum moderator HelloNNNewman which we can only endorse: Mobile Nations Community Update, March 2015 | CrackBerry.com. Thanks Dave!
And we’re all done and ready to heat up more freshly baked webOS news. Farewell until next time!
Forty Years of Tech Exhibit Showcases first Palm PDA
In an exhibit titled the Interface Experience held at The Bard Graduate Center in New York, you can see a collection of some of the biggest monuments of culture-defining technology from the last 40 years. Among the gadgets are a Commodore 64, Xerox Alto, Macintosh Plus, and my personal favorite the Palm Pilot circa 1997.
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It’s back, back, back!
The tech press was a little wrong-footed today by a surprise announcement from Palm or specifically, the brand’s new owners, TCL (Alcatel).
An Open Letter to Hewlett-Packard
HP,
You’ve announced the end of webOS cloud services and I couldn’t be happier.