The HP TouchPad has only been available for a few days, but hackers are already starting to develop custom themes and other apps to tweak the tablet. HP’s tablet is the first device to ship with webOS ...

If you were worried that HP’s acquisition of Palm would mean the end of homebrew application development, it looks like you have nothing to worry about. HP CTO Phil McKinney says the company supports ...

There are always folks who love to tinker with their gadgets, and many platforms have a homebrew community that supports that effort. Developers release homebrew patches, apps and themes to make ...

Photo: A Palm Pre sporting a Ubuntu Linux boot skin. Up until recently, if you wanted to hack your Palm Pre, you hopped over to the Pre-Central forums for all of your hacking needs, where you could ...

Today WebOS Internals' Rod Whitby sent a few words out in a speech at webOS Developer Day in NYC about webOS Homebrew development. All the way back to a million years ago, 2009, when the Palm Pre was ...

The abiding impression of the Palm Pre seems to be, "Nice phone, shame about the app store." At a little over 1,000 apps, the Pre app catalogue is a disappointment. Happily, the vibrant community over ...

We're still waiting for more news on HP's rumored Hurricane project, believed to be a tablet running Palm's webOS and tipped, by some at least, for a rushed release before the end of the year, but ...