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Palm announced today that it is working with O’Reilly Media to create the first official resource for programming the new webOS platform. The Palm webOS book offers developers concise information about the application model and framework, how to use Palm’s Mojo SDK to build applications to run on webOS, along with best practices, considerations and guidelines for design and development. The first chapter is currently available online through O’Reilly and the Palm Developer Network.

O’Reilly Media and Palm to Release First Official Resource for webOS Programming

First Chapter of “Palm webOS: Developing Applications in JavaScript Using the Palm Mojo Framework” Now Available Online

BARCELONA, Spain, Mobile World Congress, Feb. 16, 2009 — On the heels of the enthusiasm that has greeted the debut of the Palm® webOS(TM) platform and the Palm Pre(TM) phone, O’Reilly Media and Palm, Inc. (Nasdaq: PALM) today announced that they’re collaborating to create the first official resource for programming the new webOS platform. Written by Palm Vice President and Software Chief Technology Officer Mitch Allen and members of the webOS development team, “Palm webOS: Developing Applications in JavaScript Using the Palm Mojo(TM) Framework” is being edited and distributed by O’Reilly Media, a leading publisher of technology resources.

The first chapter of the Rough Cuts Version of the book is currently available online for free from the Palm Developer Network at http://developer.palm.com, and is scheduled to be available on the O’Reilly website Monday by 7 p.m. CET (10 a.m. Eastern). Rough Cuts is a service from Safari Books Online that provides early access to books on cutting-edge technologies prior to publication. Programmers eager to learn how to develop applications on webOS can literally read the book online as it is being written or download it as a PDF. And with Rough Cuts, readers can participate in an ongoing discussion about the book and technology. The complete book will be published upon release of Mojo, Palm’s webOS software development kit (SDK).

“Palm webOS is unlike any mobile platform available today,” said Mitch Allen, vice president and software chief technology officer, Palm, Inc. “Because it leverages several industry-standard web technologies, including CSS, HTML and JavaScript, it enables them to build native JavaScript applications and provides a rich open development environment that’s familiar to tens of millions of web developers. I’m excited to be working with O’Reilly to show the developer community just how easy and satisfying it is to develop applications for webOS.”

Unveiled last month at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, webOS has won enthusiastic praise for giving users what other mobile platforms can’t: cloud connectivity and data-integration, bringing users’ information from the many places it resides — on their phone, at work or on the web — into one simple, integrated view.(1) Palm Pre, the first phone to run on the new platform, has a sleek design that offers a large touch screen and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard.

The Palm webOS book offers developers concise information about the application model and framework, and how to use Palm’s Mojo SDK to build applications to run on webOS, along with best practices, considerations, and guidelines for design and development.

“Palm has stepped up to the plate in terms of working with open standards and delivering a platform the mobile community can embrace,” said Executive Editor Steve Weiss, O’Reilly. “Mobile application development has emerged as one of the guiding themes in tech for the foreseeable future, and O’Reilly is pleased to be working directly with Palm to create the best learning resources for application designers and developers as quickly as possible.”

Mitch Allen will also present a free webcast on Feb. 25 at 10 a.m. PT to offer developers a rare preview of the webOS operating system and development environment, followed by a Q&A session. More information will be available from the O’Reilly website and the Palm Developer Network.

NOTE: The following web pages are scheduled to go live Monday by 7 p.m. CET (10 a.m. Eastern). Please confirm that they are live before linking to them:

• More information about the book, including table of contents, index, author bio, and samples: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596801816

• More information about the developer webcast on Feb. 25: http://oreilly.com/go/webospreview

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