Last week, HP delivered on a promise that few thought would ever be met; make WebOS fully open source by September 2012. Well, not only did they do it, they are preparing to put a lot of steam behind the project. We’re Hiring (HP) When a major corporation like HP puts real financial effort behind [...]
5 Editorials You Missed in 2011
Hello 2012! If you were looking for 2011′s Best of, click here. We’ve already done a recap of our most trending pages of 2011, but there were some great pieces that got lost in the mix. Here are the best editorials 2011 had to offer at The Powerbase. Number 5 Who’s On Google Plus And [...]
WebOS: A Future Of Choice.
The Future Of Web OS. Since the big announcement last week from HP regarding the future of WebOS, there have been a number of impressions and speculations about what will happen next. Some say that it’s been wounded, and not properly killed off. Others have been positive and upbeat about the possibilities. I am [...]
WebOS: For The People, By The People
For those of you who have been following all of the WebOS drama, there is one little detail that has been up in the air for a while now. What will HP do with WebOS? Will it die a quiet death and lie in an unmarked grave only to be regaled by future nerds like the [...]
Ice Cream Sandwich for HP Touchpad
It will happen. This seems like a no-brainer for the staff at the Powerbase. Between the release of the Touchpad, and the Firesale 6 weeks later that killed it, developers started working a port of Android for the device. Honeycomb was an obvious choice for this machine, but since Google had not released the [...]
CyanogenMod Graces HP’s Touchpad with Alpha CM7
They have it! The first public release of CyanogenMod drops for the HP TouchPad. @dalingrin got things going with this video, and then RootzWiki dropped the bomb. For those of you who snatched up one of those $99 fire sale toys, it’s your lucky day! Someone crammed Froyo (Android 2.2) on one and sold it [...]