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  • webOS booted up on a PC, just for kicks (video)

    webOS booted up on a PC, just for kicks (video)

    Posted on May 16, 2010 | No Comments
    It's always been possible to run webOS on a PC using the emulator built into Palm's SDK, but it turns out that the OS image used for the emulator can actually be installed on an IDE hard drive and booted from -- which is exactly what one enterprising member of the PreCentral forums did with his Dell C600 laptop. It's not too surprising webOS can do this, since it's built on Linux, but don't get too excited yet; the OS runs in a funky aspect ratio in a small portion of the screen and the lack of a touchscreen means you're stuck using the keyboard to navigate. Still, it's hard not to watch this without visions of webOS running on all manner of HP hardware in the very near future -- a tablet, perhaps? Video after the break.

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  • Listen! Grooveshark debuts native Palm webOS app

    Listen! Grooveshark debuts native Palm webOS app

    Posted on February 23, 2010 | No Comments
    Online music service Grooveshark is today announcing the launch of a native app for devices running Palm webOS, or in other words the Palm Pre and Pixi phones. With the app, Grooveshark users gain access to its vast on-demand song catalog - the number of tracks in there runs in the millions - but also to the personal playlists and favorites they and other users have cultivated on the kick-ass music service. The app should be available 'very soon', according to the startup, although VIP users (who pay $3/month) can get early access.

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  • Palm looking for a 3D graphics engineer for WebOS. Take a hint.

    Palm looking for a 3D graphics engineer for WebOS. Take a hint.

    Posted on July 21, 2009 | No Comments
    Here's an interesting job opening at Palm, posted exclusively on recruitment network Mary Margaret: apparently the company is looking for a graphics engineer who will work on webOS, the Linux-powered operating system that powers the Pre. More specifically, the company is looking for a Game Frameworks Engineer with development experience in the game industry and preferably with knowledge of 3D graphics and 3D gaming technologies. Just last month, ITWorld reported on a 'sizeable number of folks' involved in Pre hacking, and mentioned that some have managed to port a version of Doom, the classic first-person 3D shooter game, to the Pre.

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