Tag: HP

Today, HP unveiled the new webOS 2.0 SDK -- and that means plenty of details about the new version are available for all to see. One of the coolest additions is Stacks, and it's not at all like the OS X feature you're familiar with. It's an extension of the Cards system. Say you're reading an email and tap a link to open it in your Pre's browser -- webOS will show the two apps stacked together ...

The webOS App Catalog isn't quite as much of a bustling hive of activity as Apple's App Store, but it's about to get a big boost from Palm's new in-laws at HP. According to HP CTO Phil McKinney, employees have responded to the developer challenge with more gusto than anticipated -- flooding his inbox with around 500 new apps. There are around 3,400 apps in the Catalog right now, so these ...

When it comes to video chatting options, you've got the app for the tech-savvy (Skype) and the web app for talking to strangers (Charoulette). But what if you need your privacy, and also don't want to install any desktop software? Gabble is a new web service from HP that tries to fill the void between Skype and Chatroulette. Gabble has Chatroulette's simple web app setup, but with the ...

HP -- who recently acquired Palm -- hasn't been shy about stating how much they like webOS. They've also said their developers are working away at creating new apps for the under-appreciated mobile OS. And now, they've taken the wraps off their very first submission to the App Catalog. Brace yourselves...It's WORLD TIME for webOS! Okay, in all seriousness the app looks good and functions ...

By harnessing the power of the cloud, HP Labs India has just revolutionized Internet access for some 300 million mobile phone users. It's called SiteonMobile, and as the name suggests, it's all about compressing the Web experience into simple SMS- and voice-driven interaction. It works by 'packaging' popular interaction on websites into 'tasklets' that can be executed via SMS or interactive ...

I'm starting to feel like I'm just about the last person on Earth who hasn't purchased a streaming music service. HP is the latest to get in on the audio action, gobbling up Seattle-based Melodeo for $30 million. While you may not have heard of the service (I hadn't until today), their site attracts about two million unique visitors per month. As TechCrunch's Evelyn Rusli points out, Melodeo's ...

YouTube announced today that it's teaming up with the Guggenheim Museum and HP to put on the first "Biennial of Creative Video" -- and they're calling it YouTube Play. The project's goal is to gather the very best videos on YouTube and display the 20 best nominees in Guggenheim museums around the globe. What constitutes the "best" in YouTube videos? They're surprisingly broad in that respect, ...

Last month at Computex, Acer's rumored Chrome OS netbook was nowhere to be found. Of course, I'd already said it wasn't going to be on display -- and Acer backed up my prediction days later with an official press release. Computex has come and gone, and while we still haven't seen Chrome OS hardware prototypes we may have a clue as to who's working on them. Officially, Google has only stated ...

I actually wanted to cover this one a few days ago, when I first heard about HP's new range of 'just email me!' printers -- but we're not a hardware site! However, now that Google's in on the gig and now that we know Chrome OS played a role in HP's printer development... well, now it's software news! (Fast forward to 31:37 in the video above for the Google Cloud Print presentation.) If you ...

Fresh on the heels of a recent spate of suicides, it seems that Foxconn and Apple are determined to make the workers of the sprawling Shenzhen complex a bit happier. Generally speaking, if you're looking to brighten somebody's day, paying them more money is a great start. Apparently, the focus groups and deep investigations have led Hon Hai Precision Industry to the same conclusion, because ...

The Chinese workers who assembled this product signed a pledge agreement not to attempt suicide or violent rampage. It's not quite the sort of assurance that a company like Apple would ever want to print on their packaging, is it? It certainly doesn't jive well with the happy indie music for which Apple TV ads have become so well known, but it's exactly what's happening right now in Shenzhen, ...

Just recently, it seemed like Palm was utterly doomed. Despite releasing the Palm Pre and the actually-kinda-cool WebOS, Palm's stock was valued at zero, with no white knight in sight to buy up the company. Well, here comes HP to the rescue, with a plan to snatch up Palm -- and more importantly, Palm's patents -- for a massive $1.2 billion. That $1.2 billion isn't just a big number, it's ...

If you use HP's Snapfish to share and organize your photos, you might be interested to know that there's now a Snapfish iPhone app that makes it easy to upload photos to the site. The free app lets you batch-upload a bunch of photos from your phone at once, and you can also use it browse and share the photos that are already on your account. Snapfish might not be the cool kid in the online ...

If you like following news from your favorite sites, but you don't currently have a smartphone or other mobile computing option, it can be difficult to stay on top of things. I know I tend to get more reading time away from the computer than when I'm actually sitting at it. There's an odd service from Hewlett Packard that might be able to help you, as long as you don't mind killing a few trees. HP ...

Less than a year after launching an online backup solution called Upline, HP is discontinuing the service. HP hasn't given any official reason for killing Upline, but in an email sent to customers, the company says that it stop accepting uploads yesterday and will cease operations altogether on March 31st, meaning if you need to get files from the server, you'd best do it before then. HP will ...