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Archive Manager by pcworldSoftware was the first application in the app catalog that gave the regular webOS user the ability to create or extract archive files (e.g. zip, rar, tar, etc), while also providing a rather fully featured file manager app, all for $1.99. This added some much needed functionality that has been missing is webOS, but to extract a file you needed to have it on your device already. That meant that if you received an email with a .zip file or wanted to open a .zip file from the web, you first needed to download the file to your device, load up Archive Manager, and then find the file to extract. That is, until its latest update to version 1.1.0. With its latest update, pcworldSoftware added in the ability to open up an archive file directly from an email message or the browser and immediately extract it anywhere on your device. This is accomplished by registering Archive Manager as the default application for all archive file types, so whenever you tap on an email attachment archive or an archive file in the browser, it directly launches Archive Manager. You still need to extract the zipped file to your device to gain access to any of the compress files inside it, but at least it saves you a few steps in process. Be aware that if you have a TouchPad, there are a few extra steps that you need to follow in order to register Archive Manager as the default file type due to some security restrictions in webOS 3.0. The developer makes this process extremely simple in the help section of the app, but you will need to have Preware installed on your device to accomplish this. View the full article

Road trips are always fun and a great way for families together. But getting to your destination isn’t always a pleasure. You always have a tiny backseat driver trying to distract you while you manuver through minivans, RV's and motorbikes. Wish the shoe was on the other foot? We may have the solution for you. So while you are busy trying to not entice road rage or an accident, give your kids a game so they can see what it’s like to control a car in traffic: Car Traffic Control. read more View the full article

Some games are good time sinks, taking up hours upon hours of time. Others are good for a few minutes here or there when you've got just a few minutes. And a few bright games fall into both camps, good for the quick round or whiling away the hours you should be spending working. We've come across a new game in the App Catalog with the unassuming (and admittedly vague) title of BallZ HD. When the description said it was good for everything from the original Pre and Pixi to the big-screen TouchPad, well, we couldn't help but take a look. read more View the full article

We had an inkling that this was coming eventually, but even so we're still surprised and glad to see it has arrived: Verizon is the first US carrier to reorient their plans to be data-centric and enable data limit sharing. They call it the Share Everything plan, and it's pretty slick. Here's how it breaks down: You pay for your device's service and then buy a bucket of data to be shared across up to ten devices. The monthly device rates (unlimited phone and messaging included on all) break down thusly: Smartphones: $40 Basic Phones: $30 Laptops, USB modems, and wireless hotspots: $20 Tablets: $10 And here's how the shared data plans break down: 1GB: $50 2GB: $60 4GB: $70 6GB: $80 8GB: $90 10GB: $100 There are also separate plans available for basic phones (no data) and modem devices (USB/MiFi), but we don't care too much about those. Verizon is throwing in mobile hotspot for free on all plans, though, which we heartily approve of. What these changes result in is higher charges for the smartphone-only user, but as you add on more devices the rates become more acceptable. The average smartphone user uses less than half a gigabyte in a month, but if you own a Verizon smartphone and tablet you could be using well over a gigabyte between the two. Now, instead of paying for two separate data plans you can have just the one and pay an extra $10 to add your tablet or $20 for a MiFi hotspot. If you're paying the bill for a family of Verizon device owners, it's even better, with the per-GB data rate scaling down as you increase the size of your bucket. Data still ain't cheap, but Verizon's at least doing the work to make it reasonable for those of us with multiple devices. View the full article

First published in 1605, Cervantes' The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha follows the adventures of Alonso Quijano, a man who perhaps has let his novel-fed imagination get the best of him. It's an epic tale of chivalry and windmills. This TouchPad-based copy of Don Quixote supports power scroll to jump between chapters, copy/paste support, font and text size preferences, full-screen and auto-bookmarking, and even automatic scrolling. It's an eBook on steroids, and we just so happen to have 50 copies from developer Erick Brown to give away. Contest: We have 50 copies of Don Quixote HD to give away. Just leave a comment on this post to enter. Contest ends next Sunday at midnight US Eastern Time, after which time we will select 50 random entrants to win. Please only leave one comment, multiple entries won’t count. Promo codes are only valid in countries serviced by the App Catalog, and users must be running webOS 3.0 or higher with the latest version of the App Catalog. View the full article

Have you ever tried downloading an app from the App Catalog, only to get a "Not Enough Storage to Download" error, despite checking to make sure you had plenty of storage space on the device? Although the error message suggests clearing space on your drive by deleting music or photos, this will not help the issue if you already had enough space for the app. As it turns out, there is a bug that sometimes occurs if your /var/luna/data/downloadhistory.db gets too large, causing one of the internal drive partitions to get full. Luckily, a simple fix for this was found in our webOS Nation forums, where just need to delete that file with some simple homebrew magic. The easiest way to fix this is by using the Internalz Pro homebrew app. To delete that file: Open Internalz Pro Navigate to the /var/luna/data folder Find the downloadhistory.db file. Tap on it and select "Delete" and then confirm the deletion in the pop-up dialog. Alternatively, you can also swipe-to-delete the file as well and then confirm that deletion Reboot your device Once rebooted, you should be able to install apps again. If you are still getting the error, make sure that check that you do in fact have enough storage space on your device Thanks to @Pre2Ries on Twitter for identifying our webOS Nation Forum thread with this tip View the full article

We know you don't want to hear it, but today's going to be about one thing across the technology blogosphere: whatever Apple announces at WWDC 2012. The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference has been a staple for Apple product introductions, and this year isn't expected to be any different. On the docket is the already expected iOS 6, but what exactly that'll bring is still up in the air (expect flexible screen size support, Facebook integration, and maybe Siri APIs). While we'll be interested in seeing whatever Apple spits out, we'll be honest - we're more psyched for the expected updates to the MacBook line... if that happens. Either way, iMore is on the ground at the Moscone Center in San Francisco and is all geared up for the opening keynote. Things are scheduled to kick off at 1 PM Eastern (10 AM Pacific, 5PM GMT), and iMore's already got the liveblog up and ready to go. We'll be sure to check it out and see just what Apple has deigned to copy from webOS this time around. In the meantime, we won't be upset if you keep a tab open to iMore for WWDC 2012. View the full article

Mobile Nations Podcast Feed Mobile Nations on iTunes Mobile Nations YouTube Samsung Galaxy S III review Orange San Diego video walkthrough How to restore the functionality the Apple v HTC war has taken away [root] CrackBerry Asks: What are you most looking forward to in BlackBerry 10? We're one step closer to our dream BlackBerry with curved display What are RIM’s Strategic Alternatives? Analyst downgrades HP over mobile concerns Three years ago today, the era of webOS began This is the C40: the Sprint Palm Pre 2 that never was iMore is at WWDC 2012! Follow along for everything you need to know about iOS 6, iCloud, Mac, and more! Best iPad cases iOS 6: The multi-billion dollar balancing act (or listen to the podcast version!) Summing up the Microsoft E3 Presentation AT&T Lumia 900 gets firmware update, fixes display issue and more Hands on with SmartGlass at E3 2012 -- Windows Phone, Windows 8 & Xbox 360 View the full article

Are you ready for some fútbol? Oh, you are? Good. Turns out that over in Europe there's definitely some football soccer going on between the nations of the old world, with the Union of European Football Associations 2012 tournament duking it out in Poland and the Ukraine. Sixteen teams from across Europe are meeting this in a month-long tournament that will conclude on the first of July. webOS developer Thomas Haustein put together a slick UEFA 2012 app for the TouchPad named Euro 2012 that will give you all the latest scores from the tournament broken down by group, along with a calendar and the eventual finals brackets. Euro 2012 is in the App Catalog for $1.99, but the developer decided he wanted to celebrate the soccer season by giving away 300 copies! Each code is of limited quantity, so once they're gone, they're gone! Canada: https://developer.palm.com/appredirect/?promocode=wopyq11220eytpc Australia: https://developer.palm.com/appredirect/?promocode=hbojb08904pqxva France: https://developer.palm.com/appredirect/?promocode=itugz78228xxyeb Germany: https://developer.palm.com/appredirect/?promocode=xrrku87372kbtji Ireland: https://developer.palm.com/appredirect/?promocode=tpkbv82065jtbst Mexico: https://developer.palm.com/appredirect/?promocode=gbdha80353qppod New Zealand: https://developer.palm.com/appredirect/?promocode=qkntb09287yukmd Spain: https://developer.palm.com/appredirect/?promocode=vvodw77551lnxvj UK: https://developer.palm.com/appredirect/?promocode=nvyxl81675fjanv USA: https://developer.palm.com/appredirect/?promocode=pfkgp86959yccwj p.s. Developers like it when their apps get reviews. You got the app for free, the least you could do is leave them a note, eh? View the full article

Late last month, Facebook started pushing harder for users to add people to their 'Close Friends' smart list, something intended to help Facebook figure out which people you want to see most in your News Feed (personally, we'd prefer Facebook stop trying to decide what it thinks will be important to us, but we're cranky like that). The push involved a big banner at the top of the desktop site that prompts users to "star" friends onto the Close Friends list, an initiative they've been slowly rolling out across their userbase. We'll admit to not using the desktop site all that often (or Facebook anywhere, for that matter), but just yesterday we hopped onto Facebook, got the prompt, thought "why not?", starred a few friends and family, and called it a day. That is, until later that night when we started getting notifications for mundane status updates that had nothing to do with interactions with ourselves. "Mary Jane uploaded a photo", "Joe Schmoe update his status: "Tacos!" ", "Pat Chris checked in at Pete's Eats", and the like. It was confusing at first, until we realized that Facebook was serving us status updates for people we'd starred onto the Close Friends list . Without having received any updates in several months, we're impressed that the webOS apps (both smartphone and tablet) handled the new us-free notifications without skipping a beat, including proper links to the friends and their posts (and any links within said post) with nary an issue. We're also somewhat amused by the in-your-face-ness of the updates, as it'll certainly make stalking keeping tabs on your friends easier, and yet possibly more annoying. We like our friends and all, but we're not sure we want everything they've done popping up on our phones as it happens all the freaking time. We're close, but we're not that close. Thankfully, you can kill the notifications, but you have to go to Facebook's desktop site to do it. Load up you Close Friends list (it'll be on the left, possibly hidden under the More link), click on Notifications in the top right, and select Off. Alternatively you can click on the Manage List button just to the right of that, select Choose Update Types, and filter out the Likes and Game posts you don't want or need to see. View the full article

We have always wanted to be that guy that makes the next great app. The perfect app that takes you and your small company into the strastosphere. Look at Angry Birds, Instagram, and Words with Friends. The best thing about webOS if you don't know already, we have the most talented and creative developers. Developers like Inglorious Apps with Notes HD, Arthur Thornton with Sparrow, and James Harris with Flash Cards who have really inspired the next generation of app designers. Why? Because webOS remains one of the best platforms to develop on. When webOS goes fully open source in the fall its only going to get even better and easier. So... you want to get in on the game, but you don’t have the skills. No problem, because with the Science Apps' new app webOS App Builder you can start building your own custom apps in no time flat. read more View the full article

Palm has done some things that in retrospect were way ahead of their time. The original Palm Pilot was groundbreaking, putting technology in your pocket like nothing else before it. webOS utilized web technologies three years ago in a manner other companies - web companies - were only daydreaming about at the time. And then there was the Palm Foleo, a short-lived smartphone companion pseudo-lapotop introduced by Palm back in 2007. The Foleo was meant to wirelessly hook up with your Palm OS smartphone and serve up a set of companion apps so you could reply to emails, compose documents, browse the web, and more, all through your Treo or Centro but with a big ten-inch screen and a full-size keyboard. The Foleo was an interesting concept, but one that turns out to have been a few years ahead of its time and the technology needed to pull it off. While Motorola has been struggling with uptake of their Lapdock accessories for plug-and-play smartphones, iPad keyboard dock maker ClamCase this week revealed their newest product: the ClamBook Laptop Dock. ClamBook is like a modern version of the Foleo, except for iOS and Android devices. The quasi thin client notebook packs a big widescreen with better speakers, battery, and keyboard than you can put in a smartphone. Unlike the Foleo, the ClamBook isn't a companion type product - it's simply an accessory, serving as a dumb screen and keyboard and letting the smartphone do all of the heavy lifting. It takes advantage of the video-out capabilities of modern Android and iOS smartphones. This week has been a bit of a blast-from-the-past week in more ways than one, and though not a product of Palm, HP, or even webOS compatible, we can't help but have mixed emotions about it. It's a cool concept, and if priced appropriately could very well be competitive (unlike the ridiculous $600 Palm wanted to charge for the Foleo). The Foleo was cancelled three months after unveiling (with its unlongevity record beaten four years later by the TouchPad), we expect the ClamBook to be around for at least a little while longer. View the full article

Sometimes we're privileged to watch somebody go down in flames. If you're watching from the outside, it can be pretty amusing. If you've got chips in the game, it's galling and terrifying. But typically, you never expect to see that person again. It's a combination of stigma amongst those who watched it happen, and what we imagine would be utter embarrassment of the fallen. Not so for former HP CEO Leo Apotheker. After his eleven month reign of terror at the head of the world's largest technology company, Apotheker got the boot in favor of board member and former eBay CEO Meg Whitman. It wasn't until later that we saw just how much of a disaster HP was internally under Apotheker, though we saw plenty of the external signs. Apotheker went down in the kind of flames that made the reentry of Mir look like a kid with a sparkler running around in the back yard on the Fourth of July. He's the guy we though we would never ever see or hear from again, especially following his move back to France. Nope. We were wrong. So very wrong. Leo's back. French IT company Steria appointed Apotheker and Laetitia Puyfaucher to their board last month, making the announcement today. In addition to her new position with Steria, Puyfaucher is the co-founder and chairwoman of global communications agency WordAppeal. Apotheker, we know him too well. Steria General Manager François Enaud, well, we're not going to judge him too harshly, because we really know nothing about him (or really Steria, for that matter), but he might not know Apotheker that well... "Given the widespread changes underway in our industry, Leo's expertise in strategic planning and Laetitia's in image development will be precious assets for our group." Maybe they don't get CNBC in France? View the full article

We wrote about it in a webOS Wish List entry a few months back, and today it's reality. Thanks to homebrew developer Garrett92C, the unified System Preferences app finally exists for TouchPad users. Dubbed AIOSettings (All-In-One-Settings), the Enyo-based app simply takes the seventeen separate Preferences apps and loads them up in a two-column layout. On the left you'll find a scrolling alphabetical list of the formerly separate Preferences apps. On the right, your selected Preferences screen. It's as simple as that. AIOSettings works in both landscape and portrait orientations, though if you find yourself wanting additional horizontal real estate you can collapse the list column down to just the icons to view the full-width of your selected Preferences screen. It helps that when laying out the Preferences apps for webOS 3.0, HP purposefully made them narrower than was necessary for the 1024x768 screen of the TouchPad, perhaps with this express purpose in mind. Also, it's worth noting that right now a few of the preference screens (Bluetooth, Print Manager, Software Manager, Text Assist, and VPN) don't open in AIOSettings and instead open in a separate card, but they do at least stack with the origin card. It's a known issue, and one we're sure will be addressed in due time. Before you get worried, AIOSettings does not replace or alter your existing Preferences apps, they're all still there and they all still work. Like practically all homebrew development for webOS, Garrett92C has done this out of his love for the operating system and is providing AIOSettings free-of-charge. You can grab it now from the webOS Nation Homebrew Gallery or via our feeds in Preware and WebOS Quick Install. If you're finding yourself approving of Garrett92C's work (and you should be finding yourself approving), then we might recommend you show your appreciation with a quick donation as a "thank you" for the work. View the full article

After everything that's happened, we still seem to keep afloat... View the full article

Glimpse by Inglorious Apps is an app that bring multitasking to a whole new level on your TouchPad, literally allowing you to run multiple mini-apps (called "widgets") by splitting the screen into panes and letting you determine which widget you want to run in each frame. While you have a large number of widgets that you can choose from along with a multiple ways to customize the frames on the screen, you may find yourself always using the same widgets and want to remove the widget selector toolbar on the bottom of each frame. Luckily, there is an option in the app preferences that will allow you to hide those toolbars, but at the cost of not being able to change your widgets (unless you reactivate those toolbars again in the future). All you need to do is swipe-down from the top-left within Glimpse, select "Preferences" and then go to the "Appearance" tab on the top. From here, just toggle the "WIDGET TOOLBAR VISIBILITY" to Yes or No depending on if you want to see or hide that toolbar, respectively. Then just press the "Done" button on the top-left to return to the app. Glimpse is available in the webOS App Catalog for $4.99 and is compatible with the HP TouchPad running webOS 3.0 or higher View the full article

At HP, Phil McKinney served as the Chief Technology Officer and was responsible for driving innovation across the company's product platform. As such, he was a pretty big fan and supporter of webOS after HP's purchase of Palm. Even though he wasn't directly involved, you might say he was the cheerleader in chief. He was a force within the organization, though the changes that struck HP over the past few years clearly were starting to wear on the man. By the end of 2011, McKinney had retired from HP, setting out to work on his first book and spending more time working on personal projects. Six months later, things are changing again for McKinney, with his new appointment as President and CEO of CableLabs. If you follow the television news space, you might have a passing familiarity with CableLabs as the not-for-profit research-and-development organization funded by the cable companies. McKinney's innovation and creativity-driven philosophy will fit in perfectly at CableLabs, whose on mission is to drive innovation in the television space. CableLabs has been responsible for DOCSIS internet, CableCard and Tru2way, and other "that's awesome!" innovations that the cable companies stomp out for fear of jeopardizing the precious control over the end user (you). We could go and on about how the cable companies quash and handicap a lot of the innovation that comes out of CableLabs (for instance, CableCard was supposed to allow you to plug a simple PC Card - remember those? - size card into the back of your TV and get full cable access without needing a stupid box and another remote, but that never went anywhere), but that's for another blog at another time... We wish Phil all the best luck at CableLabs - it should be a good fit for the man who brought HP the BlackBird and FireBird desktops, the Envy laptops, and fancy-pants flexible displays. View the full article

Earlier this month we brought the glorious news that the ToodleDo task manager client ToodleTasks had been brought down from the TouchPad's big screen to our more pocketable webOS smartphones. The app, dubbed ToodleTasks Phone Edition by developer ProdiSoft, uses the same Enyo application framework and interface scheme as its bigger brother, but does so on the smaller screen. ToodleTasks Phone Edition can be had for $3.99 from the App Catalog, but fifty lucky versions of you stand a chance at winning a copy for free! Contest: We have 50 copies of ToodleTasks Phone Edition to give away. Just leave a comment on this post to enter. Contest ends next Wednesday at midnight US Eastern Time, after which time we will select 50 random entrants to win. Please only leave one comment, multiple entries won’t count. Promo codes are only valid in countries serviced by the App Catalog, and users must be running webOS 2.1.0 or higher with the latest version of the App Catalog. View the full article

We've said it many times over the past six months since HP announced their intentions to open source webOS: open source is not a plan. Once the software is out there… then what? It's a question we've been asking for a while, and we've been hearing you ask the same one. HP CEO Meg Whitman said that they'll eventually make new webOS tablets, but we haven't heard anything since, and it doesn't seem like webOS is really a big priority for HP. So what's an enterprising webOS fan to do? Take matters into their own hands, that's what. That's part of the beauty of open source: once it's out there, anybody can do whatever they want with the code. So a group of webOS fans - developers, designers, and engineers - formed a group they've named Phoenix International Communications. The goals of Phoenix are both simple and attainable while also complex and ambitious. Unlike some of the other noise that's been made recently about webOS devices, Phoenix is taking a slow-and-steady approach and focusing initially on porting Open webOS (once it's out in full in August) to existing devices - not just webOS devices, we would assume. And they're not just going to take Open webOS and throw it onto other devices, as anybody with minimal skill could figure that out, no, Phoenix wants to improve upon webOS with new features and fixes. Long term, the folks at Phoenix hope to be able to bring new webOS-specific devices to market, but that's a ways off and dependent upon things like money. We've talked with Phoenix about their plans, and while there's plenty that they can't share at this point, we're confident that they're being realistic and optimistic about their goals here. Right now Phoenix consists of a small team, but they're looking to expand. Developers and engineers might be able to make devices work, but in the end they still need designers, marketers, accountants, sales representatives, and the like to actually get their work out to the public. You could say that Phoenix is hiring, but in reality their hope for expansion at this point rests on volunteers. And what better place to pick up a few genius collaborators than webOS Nation? If you're finding yourself interested in pitching in for the Phoenix webOS effort, hit up the source link below. View the full article

Four months ago, HP's Executive Vice President of Software took on a new role at the Silicon Valley giant: Chief Strategy Officer. That man was Bill Veghte, and today he's taking another step up the corporate ladder. Veghte is shedding the EVP title and moving into the newly-created Chief Operating Officer position at HP, reporting directly to CEO Meg Whitman. Taking over Veghte's old HP Software job will be HP newcomer George Kadifa. He comes from multi-billion-dollar technology investment firm Silver Lake, previously having held executive positions at IBM and Cisco. The COO role is a new one for HP, providing further evidence of Whtiman's consolidation and reorganization of the company. According to HP's press release on the matter, COO Veghte "will help further accelerate the execution of the company’s strategy by working across HP to drive innovation and customer satisfaction" and will "work closely with Whitman as well as his peers on HP’s executive council to support key projects affecting the company’s operational success." In essence, it's going to be his job to make sure things happen, much like it was current Apple CEO Tim Cook's job to make things happen in Cupertino when he was Apple's COO. What does this mean for webOS? We're not certain. Back when Veghte was announced as the Chief Strategy Officer, HP moved webOS under his domain. The webOS group had previously been under Shane Robison and the Office of Strategy and Technology, with the CSO position kind-of-sort-of replacing that role. Veghte will still be the CSO in addition to the new COO, giving him a lot of responsibility at HP, but presumably also a lot of pull. Though with everything going on at HP right now, we can't imagine he'll have a lot of time to devote to guiding our favorite open source mobile operating system project. Update: We've confirmed with HP that Veghte will continue to directly oversee the webOS group even with his new position. So breath a sigh of relief, we don't have to learn a new name this week. So far. View the full article

While you will not typically hear complaints about the Wi-Fi on most webOS devices, the Pre3 seemed to take a step backward in the reliability of its wireless radio. In addition to a seemingly decreased W-Fi range, it also tends to not show all the available networks that are in range, even if they are previously saved Wi-Fi profiles. This can be an extremely annoying bug that will cause your device to fail to connect to a known network, but it has an equally annoying (although relatively simple) fix. All you need to do is turn Wi-Fi off and then back on again, and all the wireless networks within range will show up again. If you are a homebrewer, you can also install the "Cycle Wi-Fi in Device Menu" patch in Preware by GuyFromNam that will, not surprisingly, add a "Cycle Wi-Fi" option to the device menu to toggle your Wi-Fi off and then back on. This also appears to work alongside some of the Device Menu expansion patches such as Jason Robitaille's "Device Menu Megamix" patch. View the full article

We get asked it a lot, surprisingly: "Where can I get a TouchPad?" It's a rare beast these days, that HP TouchPad, but today you can had over to woot.com subsite Moofi and get a refurbished 32GB TouchPad for $194.99. Unlike Woot proper, which is a deal a day, Moofi's deals last for much longer - you have six whole days left to take advantage of this offer. Now, $194.99 is nearly fifty bucks higher than the firesale pricing of the 32GB TouchPad back in the day, and that was for a new tablet, not a refurbished version like we have here. But it's also a good $400 less than the launch price less than a year ago. It might be slightly used, but HP's gone over them with a fine-toothed comb and is throwing in a 90-day warranty. Should you grab one? Opportunities to pick up a TouchPad have been growing fewer and farther between with each passing month since the great Leopocalypse, and we expect that trend to continue. Less than $200 isn't a bad deal, but then again, there are new (but smaller) tablets available for that price, or you can put your money towards a newer big-screened tablet, though that'll cost you dearly too. If you want webOS, well, this is your only option. View the full article

So much has happened in the past 36 hours it’s enough to make your head explode. First HP announced its cutting 27,000 jobs over a two-year period; then the core Enyo team is packing up and going to Google. We are happy that the team found fantastic jobs, but we all would like to slap you individually. Anyone that was up at 10:30 pm yesterday got the heart sinking news via Twitter. Not the best way to be met with bad news the second time in a week. The fans of webOS who are true blue were again slapped in the face. What’s going to happen to our phones, what’s going to happen to the TouchPad? What’s going to happen to webOS? The Enyo team has released this statement: The core of Enyo 2 is solid. We’re hearing great things from developers about the performance improvements in the last release, and we have another release on the way. After that, we’ll focus on expanding the Onyx widget set. We’ve enlisted the support of the developer relations engineers you know and love to help out as we work on growing the team. That’s right, we’re growing. As we said earlier this month, we’re hiring — not just to replace the engineers who have left, but to increase the size of the team going forward. If you would like to contribute to the success of Enyo (and get paid for it) please let us know. And of course, all are welcome to contribute to the code by making GitHub pull requests. Our door is open; if you have any concerns, feel free to voice them in the Enyo forums. We’re always listening and will do our best to address your questions. We’ll also be out in person at next week’s O’Reilly Fluent Conference in San Francisco, and at HP Discover in Las Vegas the following week — we’d love to see you there. So there you have it, we are moving on as planned so calm your fears. The Enyo team are here for the long haul. View the full article

So you're a TouchPad owner. Maybe you purchased it full price or maybe you waited until the now legendary fire-sale of the TouchPad after good ol' Leo Apotheker killed webOS hardware. You might even be one of the hardcore webOS users that paid top dollar for a beautiful white 1.5GHz TouchPad with a whopping 64GB of storage! Regardless of how you got your hands on one or how much coin you dropped on it you love your TouchPad all the same. Because you love your TouchPad you want to protect it with the best case possible. However sometimes a good case can be a bit expensive so we all tend to look for the best deal possible. Well if you're looking for a deal look no further than HP's very own Home and Home Office Store. Here is a quick list of all the great deals they have right now: HP TouchPad Slipcase: $1.99 HP TouchPad Power Charger: $4.99 HP TouchPad Case: $4.99 Timbuk2 Envelope Case: $14.99 Timbuk2 Plush Sleeve: $14.99 The best part is all of this can be had with free shipping. So act quick folks because we are sure at these prices supplies will not last very long! View the full article

Update: webOS Nation has just received the following statement from HP: "We’re pleased with the traction Enyo has gained to date and plan to continue its development along with the open source community. The Open webOS project is on schedule and we remain committed to the roadmap announced in January.” Key members of HP's Enyo team have reportedly just quit the company and left to set up shop over at Google. While initial rumors made it sound like it might be the entire team, webOS Nation's own sources indicate that this will move less than half of the team. It will, however, include Matt McNulty, the Senior Director of Frameworks and Tools. As to what this means for webOS, well... what would it mean for Apple if the entire iOS application framework group jumped over to RIM, or if the entire Android dev team did a walk in over at Nokia? In other words -- nothing good. To be successful, operating systems need to be platforms, platforms need apps, apps need developers, developers need a framework to make apps, and that framework needs a strong, smart, passionate, engaged team behind it. If these rumors turn out to be true, in whole or even in part, webOS' struggle has just become that much more difficult. Again. Now Enyo might well still be on track, and Enyo isn't the only way to develop for webOS, but it's the first party framework, and that makes it important. Enyo 2 Beta 3 was released back on March 23 and while no doubt work has already been done on the next beta, and on the release version, it's hard to imagine a large scale defection wouldn't cause problems and delays. As to what the Enyo team might do over at Google, well hooking back up with Matias Duarte, who designed the original Pre user interface for Palm and now does that same job for Android, is an easy guess. Google's a web services powerhouse, however, and Enyo is a cutting edge web technology framework, so the sky's very literally the limit. Google's made a serious effort to improve not only the look but the user experience of everything from their web sites to their smartphone apps lately, and there's still Chrome and ChromeOS to consider. A team of skilled web framework developers could go a long way towards furthering all of those goals. But Enyo and webOS are commited to being open source projects now, and they're bigger than any one person or group of people. This is still a developing story, and we're tracking it in the webOS nations forums, so head on over there for more. Source: The Verge View the full article