Seems just the other day - actually it was two weeks ago - that we divined
that HP, imagining blowing Google away, would pull out the stops to get the
webOS that it bought, put in a tablet that failed in the market, dropped,
then open sourced - life's funny like that - in shape to publish the code in
stages.
And what do you know - surprise, surprise - HP Wednesday committed to a
timetable for getting the thing out in steps by September under the lenient
Apache 2.0 license.
See, here's the schedule:
Timing
Milestone/Code published
January
Enyo 2.0 and Enyo source code
Apache License, Version 2.0
February
Intended project governance model
QT WebKit extensions
JavaScript core
UI Enyo widgets
March
Linux standard kernel
Graphics extensions EGL
LevelDB
USB extensions
April
Ares 2.0
Enyo 2.1
Node services
July
System manager ("Luna")
System manager bus
Core applicatio... (more)
The TouchPad tablet that HP brought to market last year only to kill it a few
weeks later for lack of sales was doomed to fail according a story in the New
York Times Tuesday.
HP subsequently wrote off a nasty $1.6 billion to cover the cost of its
folly. It had paid $1.2 billion in mid-2010 to buy Palm and the webOS
operating system running the tablet.
The Times' story, which quotes the former senior director of software at Palm
Paul Mercer by name as well as several other anonymous ex-HP and Palm
employees, claims the widget - like the Palm phones HP also discontinued -
didn't... (more)
2012 is shaping up to be a challenging year for CIOs as they figure out how
to safely embrace the slew of mobile devices entering their networks.
Smartphones and tablets are seriously threatening the IT status quo, and CIOs
who fail to adapt and get ahead of this technological upheaval risk getting
pink slips and seeing themselves replaced by more agile colleagues.
Clearly, 2012 is the year that organizations of all shapes and sizes must
come to terms with their mobile problem. Here are five serious mobile
challenges CIOs will have to deal with in 2012:
1. BYOD stressing networks... (more)
Remember InterDigital? That's the Pennsylvania patent-licensing company that
hired Evercore Partners and Barclays Capital last summer to sell its patents,
raising punters hopes that Google would buy it to console itself for losing
the $4.5 billion Nortel mobile patent auction to Apple, Microsoft and
friends.
Players bid its stock up 50 bucks to a high of $82.50 in three days on such
speculation little suspecting Google would turn around and buy Motorola
Mobility and its patents a few weeks later for $12.5 billion.
Well, Monday evening InterDigital's board announced that it was gi... (more)
This book starts with a great introduction to the Windows phones. It
introduces Metro design language, hardware specifications, input patterns,
the application lifecycle, out-of-the-box services, live tiles, and the
marketplace. By the time you are done with the introduction you have a solid
understanding of the Windows phone context.
The book continues with ten more chapters. They include Writing Your First
Phone Application, XAML Overview, Controls, Designing for the Phone,
Developing for the Phone, Phone Integration, Databases and Storage,
Multitasking, Services, and The Marke... (more)