At the Mobile World Congress, Adobe has announced that Palm is the latest manufacturer to have joined the Open Screen Project, which is a broad industry initiative, dedicated to enabling standalone applications and full web browsing across televisions, desktops and mobile devices that take advantage of the the Adobe Flash Platform. Basically, the purpose is to deliver the Adobe Flash Player for smartphones to WebOS. The integration between Palm’s web-oriented operating system and Adobe’s Flash Player seems like a really good idea, since the users will be granted with the ability to take advangate of the huge amount of Flash content that can be found on the global net.

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Palm’s Andrew Shebanow posted on his blog a question about what the developers would like to see in the WebOS and after receiving lots of responses, Palm decided to create a separate official blog about this – the Palm Developer Network Blog.

This is your chance to let Palm know what you would and would not like to see on the webOS platform, in particular in areas related to:

* Application installation and updating
* Ecommerce (purchase, trials, coupons, etc.)
* Security (code signing, testing, anti-phishing, malware, etc)
* Browsing and searching for applications

Check it out here

via IntoMobile

The major announcement and pretty much the only interesting one during the whole show was the Palm Pre introductions and the WebOS platform which it runs. Everything started at 11 PST, with a conference room packed with press, eagerly expecting the “Nova”, which was the code name of the new OS. Jon Rubinstein came on stage briefly, to introduce Ed Colligan, President and CEO. The main points in his introduction of the new OS and device were simple: most consumers do not use one device for specific purpose, but combine work and personal stuff, multimedia, office documents and contact information and all those pieces of information are usually scattered in different repositories (folders, e-mail accounts, services, IMs), requiring each one to be accessed separately. Palm’s idea is to have all different parts to come together seeminglessly into one device.

Their second intention and we think their main one is to make the underlying technology invisible to the users – no need to have to save before exiting, no need to try to sniper a small X located in the right corner to just minimize it and you get the idea. This is the whole idea of the Web OS – optimized for human beings from the 21st century who do not use just their local phonebook for contact information, but Gmail, Facebook, multiple IM and have information everywhere which needs to be brought and naturally accessed from one place. Please welcome the Pre and Palm’s new WebOS operating system. Read the full story