Palm's Ares WebOS tool allows for easy app dev

Coming by year's end, Ares will help developers pull together components via JavaScript to build apps for the Pre and Pixi

Palm will introduce a Web-based development environment for WebOS applications, called Ares, by the end of this year.

Ares got its first public demonstration at the Open Mobile Summit conference in San Francisco. It is designed to make it easy for developers to pull various components together in JavaScript to build applications for the Palm Pre and Pixi, the two handsets that run Palm's WebOS.

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