After a short while of private testing with developers, Palm‘s latest killer development platform, Ares, is now opened for public beta. This development platform is built entirely on web, developers do not need to download anything.  Just goto http://ares.palm.com to start coding, visually.  The platform is also made easy for developer collaboration and app submission to Palm’s App Catalog. Ares includes Complete integrated development environment Drag-and-drop interface builder Code editor Visual debugger Log viewer Source [...]

Palm has just released the WebOS 1.3.1 update for the Pre owners. There is no “fix” for the broken iTunes sync yet but there is a list of improvement for the Pre owners: Yahoo! is now officially supported for Contact/Calender/IM. You can forward SMS/MMS from the messages. Widescreen videos now display in widescreen mode on the phone by default, instead of being cropped. If you tap to play a YouTube video embedded on a web [...]

During the Open Mobile Summit conference in San Francisco, Palm shows its developers a brand new development platform called Ares.  This web based SDK enables developers to user drag-and-drop in a browser to develop WebOS applications. And there are more: The developers are not required to download any tools to their local PC, everything including libraries are available on this web development platform. The developers can send the apps to the phones, App Catalog or [...]

The game is not over yet.  Palm has just released WebOS update version 1.2.1 for the Pre and according to the release note, it resolves an issue preventing media sync from working with latest version of iTunes (9.0.1). People who need their Pre to be able to sync media files using iTunes should get the update. Anyone wants to bet when Apple will release a new version of iTunes that will break the sync again. [...]

Palm WebOS 1.2 is ready for download.  According to palm site, there isn’t new feature for the new version.  However, there are quite a number of updates for the existing applications. To name a few of more significant updates: User can download paid apps from App Catalog now LinkedIn is now supported for Contact Sync Palm did not “fix” the syncing issue for iTune 9.01.  I am just wondering whether Palm will still want to [...]

With the new management and the new WebOS, Palm will be stopping the relationship with Microsoft soon.  Focusing only on one single platform – WebOS, the future devices by Palm will only support WebOS. Jon Rubinstein just made it official during their financial results conference call: Due to importance of webOS to our overall strategy, we’ve made the decision to dedicate all future develoment resources to the evolution of webOS. Which means that going forward, [...]