Microsoft looking to poach webOS devs
Written by Andre Yoskowitz @ 21 Aug 2011 14:29
Following HP’s decision to kill off all webOS-based hardware and firesale their Pre phones and TouchPad tablet for $49 and $99, respectively, Microsoft is looking to bring talented webOS devs over to the floundering Windows Phone 7 platform.
Microsoft has had good success in bringing developers over to WP7 and despite mediocre hardware sales the platform has 30,000 apps in record time.
Director for Windows Phone 7, Brandon Watson, has tweeted this weekend:
To any published webOS devs: We’ll give you what you need to be successful on #WindowsPhone, including free phones, dev tools, and training, etc
Microsoft is said to have strong tools and a strong training program for WP7 devs.
Result for: free phones
Orb Networks is claiming that they have developed “the world’s first way to stream live TV to the iPhone and iPod Touch.”
OrbLive, as the application is called, will work with “jailbroken” iPhones and iPod Touches. Despite being the “first” to make an application of the sort, it is really not all that special. Users install the Orb streaming application on their TV-tuner enabled PCs and OrbLive on their handheld devices. You then set the PC to live TV and stream it directly using the Wi-Fi.
Adds Orb’s CEO, Joe Costello, “Although the iPhone provides users with a great way to experience the Web, it offers a ridiculously sub-par streaming video experience. When all the carriers’ free phones can stream lots of things that my iPhone can’t, something’s seriously wrong. OrbLive finally brings the iPhone’s streaming video experience up to par with other mobile phones.”
