HP will not do Android or Windows Phone 7 smartphones – but what chance for webOS?

By tim, on July 26th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

HP’s Todd Bradley, Executive Vice President of Personal Systems and formerly CEO of Palm, was interviewed by Jon Fortt at CNBC. Fortt asks some great questions which mostly get woolly answers, but did get this statement from Bradley:

We will not do a Linux, Android phone. We won’t do a Microsoft Phone … we’ll deliver

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July 26th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: apple, hp, iphone, microsoft, mobile, professional, software development | One comment

Flash and AIR for Windows Phone 7 by mid 2011?

By tim, on June 15th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

I’m at an Adobe partner conference in Amsterdam – not for the partner sessions, but to be one of the judges for tomorrow’s application showcase. However, I’ve been chatting to Michael Chaize, a Flash Platform evangelist based in Paris, and picked up a few updates on the progress of Flash and AIR on mobile devices.

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June 15th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: adobe, flash, mobile | Leave a comment

HP hedges mobile bets by buying Palm and webOS

By tim, on April 29th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

I love that this industry is full of surprises. This week has brought a couple. One is HP getting seriously into mobile by buying Palm – I think this is good news since webOS, based on JavaScript and the W3C DOM, is an interesting platform that was otherwise near to death. But surely HP is

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April 29th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: apple, hp, microsoft, software development | Leave a comment

Building for multiple mobile platforms with one codebase

By tim, on March 29th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Individuals may have strong opinions about the merits of Apple iPhone versus Google Android versus the struggling Palm WebOS versus the not-yet Windows Phone 7; but sit them round a table to discuss app strategy and those diverse platforms change from a debating point to a problem. Presuming a web app won’t cut it, how

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March 29th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: .net, adobe, apple, iphone, microsoft, mobile, oracle, software development | 6 comments

Palm Ares: an online IDE for WebOS development

By tim, on February 8th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

I spent a few minutes trying out Ares, Palm’s web-based IDE for WebOS, the OS used in the Palm Pre smartphone.

Ares is in public beta and I’m not going to pretend I found it smooth going. No doubt it will be fine after a little patient learning. It is amazing, with drag-and-drop visual interface

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February 8th, 2010 | Tags: , , , | Category: java, javascript, software development, web authoring | One comment