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The toaster’s been back in action, so let’s shake out some fresh crumbs:

A good spot from the forums: 5 part history of Palm from low end mac
We know the old story: The flops, near misses and glorious failures in the race to be the best smartphone OS | TechRadar
Ex-webOS developer, Andrew Rich joins Slack (and gets a half-marathon personal best!): Good News Comes In Threes – Medium. The third thing is of course a mention on pivotCE! 😉
Google working on unified Fuchsia operating system. It involves ex-webOS people & a ‘mojo’ application framework… Other links: 1, 2, 3
LG wins ‘Best High-end TV for the 5th year running and also ‘Best Smart TV’ at the EISA awards: Home Theatre Display & Video Awards 2016-2017 | EISA – The European Imaging and Sound Association

I need to butter these hot scones. See you next time!

News Crumbs – 13th JULY 2016

Aside July 13, 2016 preemptive

If you are worried that we’re running out of bread, don’t forget to donate to pivotCE. We needed to toast some buns for our barbeque, so let’s see what crumbs shake out.

Old, but not stale: HP webOS concept.
More time to tell your friends: Wifi Hotzones are crowd funding a webOS router (now in November). £80 each? They still need to make a run of 2500.
A passing mention: Mossberg: The tyranny of messaging and notifications – Recode
And of course: Five Phones That Were Ahead of Their Time | Digital Trends. Wait! Only one is a webOS phone!
A breaking story: The USA Today app got fixed – by USA Today!
Finally, inspiration for toast lovers.

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News Crumbs – 9th November 2015

Aside November 9, 2015 preemptive

Munching on the last crust here, but everything tastes good with marmalade. It’s been a while since the last round up, so before I head to the bakery for supplies, lets clean out some crumbs!

LuneOS developer, Doug Reeder tweets:

#FirefoxOS may be adopting card stacks from #webOS: https://t.co/2GjfZq5iE1

— Doug Reeder (@reeder29) August 12, 2015
Tomomi Imura, a former developer relations engineer at Palm, now working for Pubnub, showed off a cat facial recognition system on Leo LaPorte’s Screen Savers web show. The segment begins at one hour in, includes some discussion of her time at Palm and lasts about 12 minutes.
In the previous Newscrumbs, we mentioned that Josh Marinacci, former Developer Advocate for webOS at Palm, was looking for work. Good news! He has joined Ms Imura at Pubnub: The Hubbub About PubNub
LG’s lightweight ‘Gram’ laptops arrive in the US. Who actually owns gram? The lonely little website is still out there if you want the Prelude font…
Alan Morford tweets that, “You can buy a Sprint Pixi again!

Excited to announce that our sleek 7-inch PIXI 7 LTE tablet is now available at @Sprint! https://t.co/0PRbWJjn3Q pic.twitter.com/wcvDUsawBp

— ALCATEL ONETOUCH USA (@ALCATEL1TOUCH) November 6, 2015

Alcatel have made a lot more Pixi’s than Palm.
Crowd-funding for a webOS router is now planned for March:

Designs for new #WebOS #touchscreen (3.2") #wireless #router coming on! This will go on either #kickstarter on #Indeigogo in March 2016

— WiFi Hotzones (@WiFiHotzones) November 6, 2015
It seems someone else has a RaspberryPi:

pic.twitter.com/mpWeng3yLD

— Jason Robitaille (@JayCanuck) November 7, 2015

That’s it for now. Don’t forget to donate to pivotCE so we can keep the article machine fueled.

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PrewareUpdates on Twitter

Aside October 2, 2015 Sören Müller

As some of you might already noticed, there is a new twitter account called “PrewareUpdates“. It tweets about (get this) new stuff like apps of patches in Preware! Go and follow it if you want to know what’s new in Preware.

Did you know there was an Update for Grabber’s Certificate Grabber today?

Certificate Grabber http://t.co/GR9SX9asGb via @pivotCE #webos | https://t.co/nxyuYxlfVR pic.twitter.com/RrFod8yreI

— Preware Updates (@PrewareUpdates) October 2, 2015

RSS fans of you can also subscribe to http://preware.pivotce.com/rss.php which is the source for the Twitter account.

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News Crumbs – 3rd August 2015

Aside August 3, 2015 preemptive 1 Comment

Has it been almost four months since we last shook out the toaster? Some of these crumbs may be a little stale, but lets recap:

OK, it’s not webOS related, but it is an amusing toaster game!
You’re a slice of bread that desperately wants to toast itself – Boing Boing
Mobilespoon looks at the history of webOS.
Connect SDK Developers :: Connect SDK 1.4.4 released
Unsurprising: Of course you can run Android 5.1 on the HP TouchPad – Liliputing
If you like shuffling cards, then webOS is the mobile OS for you and maybe Poker is your game. Here’s webOS developer, Eric Blade combining both interests at the world series of Poker.

He finished 2189 out of 22,374 at his first attempt. The top 10%!
So, you’re a pivotCE reader. You have an interest in webOS & LuneOS. You probably have a device – maybe two or three. Some people have spares for backup, others actual collections. But how much of a webOS nut are you? This much?
Cleaning up after the Apotheklypse: Hewlett-Packard will pay $100 million to settle lawsuit tied to $10-billion Autonomy deal
Josh Marinacci, former Developer Advocate for webOS at Palm, seeks a new position.

That’s it for now. I’ll be looking for ideas for the next batch.