webOS 1.4 is the bees knees, but there have been reports of a bug or two and the altered way it handles multitasking has caused some headaches for some developers. As we mentioned in that story, Palm had promised an update ‘within 2-3 weeks’ and it looks like they are making good – we have word that Palm is currently letting some developers have a crack at the Release Candidate for webOS 1.4.1, which should allow apps to persist in the background for a little longer than 1.4.0 let them, along with a new JSON parser and presumably various other small changes.
We also hear there’s an early access release for the 2nd beta of Project Ares, the in-browser app development system. Excelsior!
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