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1. Gameloft chooses iPhone over Android

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Friday, 20 November 2009

   ... Google's Android or Palm's webOS, the smartphone industry could really use a David to the iPhone's Goliath to promote competition and better products all around," wrote Bonsack. 

"So it comes as a ...

2. Sprint launches Palm Pixi smartphone

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Sunday, 15 November 2009

   Sleek and sexy but lacks Wi-Fi Sprint has officially launched the entry-level Palm Pixi smartphone. The $100 device is powered by webOS and features a QWERTY keyboard along with a 2.6-inch multi-touch ...

3. Apple reverses Atom Snow Leopard ban

   (Software/Software Features)

   Thursday, 05 November 2009

   ... company's overpriced hardware. 
 "It's the same thing with the Palm Pre. Palm got their phone to work with iTunes and Apple now blocked the Palm Pre in the latest iTunes update. They're like a bunch of ...

4. Apple's small-minded strategy

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   Wednesday, 04 November 2009

   ... Palm Pre users have with their iTunes music. Pre users once saw their device's icon in the iTunes navigation bar, but it's no longer there. Apple has screwed some of its iTunes users. This is the third ...

5. Apple iTunes update disables Palm sync

   (Software/Software Features)

   Friday, 30 October 2009

   Apple has released an updated version of its iTunes software. Predictably, iTunes 9.0.2 blocks the Palm Pre's ability to sync media files with the popular application.Apple has released an updated ...

6. Apple sued over camera patent by litigant with a past

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Thursday, 29 October 2009

   ... Verizon, Vodafone and Cellco alleging infringement of these patents.It then took action against LG, Motorola, Palm, Sanyo, Concord Camera, Vivitar, Polaroid, HTC, Deutsche Telecom, and T-Mobile. LG, Motorola ...

7. iPhone 3GS challenges RIM's control of smartphone market

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Tuesday, 27 October 2009

   ... purchases — up 4-pts since June, but below its percentage from a year ago," said Carton. Meanwhile, Palm remained "far behind" in third place with a 7 percent share. "We note that this is the first ...

8. Can the Palm Pre knock the iPhone off its perch?

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   Monday, 19 October 2009

   Already a million-seller in the US, Palm’s iPhone wannabe, the Pre, has just launched in the UK. Does it have what it takes to rival the seemingly-unstoppable iPhone? Already a million-seller in the ...

9. The best IT vendor CEO of the decade is...

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   Friday, 16 October 2009

   ... of managerial and technical expertise in India is accelerating and I'm betting in the next decade the title will go to a CEO based there. Cisco Systems' John Chambers and IBM's Sam Palmisano have done ...

10. WikiReader puts Wikipedia in your pocket

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Tuesday, 13 October 2009

    ... palm of your hand. Or simply impress your kids. The WikiReader is available through Amazon for $99.    Single Parent Gossip is giving away three of the WikiReaders in a prize drawing. Jump over ...

11. Windows 6.5: Living in a Post iPhone World is a Bitch

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 06 October 2009

    ... like Apple, RIM, and Palm, and you have Software Platforms like Windows Mobile and Android.  Then you have Nokia who is both the largest and least aligned vendor in the space, having bought an independent ...

12. Adobe brings Flash to future phones

    (Software/Software Features)

    Sunday, 04 October 2009

    ... Screen Project today and will bring Flash Player to BlackBerry smartphones. The Open Screen Project has nearly 50 partners including Google, Intel, Nokia, NTT Docomo, Palm, LG, HTC, ARM, the BBC and  ...

13. Intel sues Silicon Valley partner

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 01 October 2009

    ... and partners including HP, Lucent, IBM, Cisco, LSI Logic, McAfree, Palmchip,  Rambus, Net Optics, Philips, Hitachi, Agilent and many other companies, it claims on its web site. It is also clearly ...

14. End of O2 iPhone monopoly is good news for UK users

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Opinion)

    Tuesday, 29 September 2009

    ... namely Orange’s price point for the 3GS, will be competitive enough to force a price war between the networks, also whether O2 will refocus attention on promoting the newly acquired exclusive, the Palm ...

15. Palm updates WebOS

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Tuesday, 29 September 2009

    iPhone wannabe Palm has released an update for its WebOS smartphone platform. iPhone wannabe Palm has released an update for its WebOS smartphone platform. WebOS 1.2 will add new features, such as ...

16. Apple ends iPhone exclusivity in UK

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Sunday, 27 September 2009

    ... of the market. O2 says it will continue to sell the Apple gadget alongside rival smartphone, the Palm Pre, which will still only be available through O2 when it launches in the middle of October.  ...

17. Palm is fed up with Microsoft Windows Mobile

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Thursday, 17 September 2009

    Palm has finally pulled the plug on the Windows Mobile operating system after years as a valued customer.Palm has finally pulled the plug on the Windows Mobile operating system after years as a valued ...

18. HTC sticks up two fingers at Iphone

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Thursday, 17 September 2009

    ... the video is running. Multi-touch is included in the iPhone and the Palm Pre and it appears that the HTC Leo may be the first Windows Mobile device to have it. Specifications for the phone were leaked ...

19. Apple lines up against Palm, Microsoft. And Apple

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 09 September 2009

    ... was tactically.   On the other hand, the MP3 market is increasingly looking saturated with Apple’s problem less products like Microsoft’s Zune or Palm’s Pixie but more the fact that nearly everyone ...

20. Palm launches Pixi in time for holidays

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Wednesday, 09 September 2009

      Aiming to capitalize on the success of the Pre, Palm has launched a smaller, cheaper version called the Pixi. Aiming to capitalize on the success of the Pre, Palm has launched a smaller, cheaper ...

21. Intel, AMD, Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple, Google others sued over patent

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 25 August 2009

    ... Quicklogic, Freescale, Texas Instruments, Google, T Mobile, HTC, Apple, Sony, Ericsson, Sony Ericsson, Philips, LG Electronics, Research in Motion, Motorola, Nokia, Palm, Nvidia, AMD, Dell, AT&T, Verizon, ...

22. Torch deal could herald new BlackBerry browser

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 25 August 2009

    ... of a de facto standard, and is used by several other browsers, including those for the iPhone, Palm Pre and Google Android phones. RIM, meanwhile, has taken a lot of flak for having a browser that's slow ...

23. Holy monk joins shadowy ranks of Diablo III

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Monday, 24 August 2009

    ... hordes facing him." Indeed, monk skills that use the combo system can be "chained together" in various orders to achieve different results. For example, the first hit of exploding palm will deal some ...

24. Jobs tried to stop Palm from poaching jobs

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 20 August 2009

    A report alleged that Steve Jobs asked the former CEO of Palm to strike a deal that would have meant neither poached the other's staff two years ago.A report alleged that Steve Jobs asked the former ...

25. Palm to open app store, take 30 percent cut of all sales

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Tuesday, 18 August 2009

    Palm is the latest outfit to jump on the app store bandwagon with its Palm App Catalog beta program, scheduled to start in mid September. Sunnyvale (CA) - Palm is the latest outfit to jump on the app ...

26. Smartphone downloads to top 6.67 bn by 2014

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Wednesday, 12 August 2009

    ... by 2014. The market segments covered in the research include prepaid and postpaid mobile, SMS and MMS, mobile Internet, iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile, Palm, and Symbian. "Next-generation devices are ...

27. War declared: Apple’s Cult Takes on Google’s Borg

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Tuesday, 11 August 2009

    ... to reveal their sources, and more recently got some bad press for killing iTunes syncing from Palm’s Pre. The suicide of an employee working for a Chinese supplier has also shed light on a secretive corporate ...

28. Motorola Morrison surfaces: The iPhone the ROKR should have been?

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 10 August 2009

    ... a bunch of today’s smartphones - such as the iPhone or the Palm Pre - already offer. It is somewhat astounding to remember that Motorola was the first company to actually offer an “iPhone” back in 2005 ...

29. ARM rules the smartphone roost

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 04 August 2009

    ... and manufacturers have now begun to respond in earnest to the app store buzz," said Renowden. "On-device app stores have launched on BlackBerry and Palm’s WebOS, Nokia now has Ovi Store, Windows Mobile ...

30. Apple’s iPad: Like Apple TV or like iPod?

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 30 July 2009

    ... Ironically, this is likely the one device Palm should have understood how to do right first. In many ways, this would be Apple’s spin on Google’s Chrome OS idea (showcasing Apple’s hardware roots) and ...

31. Will Windows Mobile become extinct?

    (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

    Wednesday, 29 July 2009

    ... with Windows. But this is no longer a compelling argument in many companies which are increasingly adopting alternative devices from Apple, Blackberry, Nokia, Palm, etc. ActiveSync, which enables the all ...

32. Samsung debuts 1GHz "iPhone" processor

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 27 July 2009

    ... the Palm Pre and iPhone 3GS. Indeed, the speedy 3GS is powered by a Samsung S5PC100 system-on-chip (SoC) running at a respectable 600MHz. However, the Hummingbird is one of the "fastest available" Cortex-A8 ...

33. Palm switches iTunes sync back on

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Friday, 24 July 2009

    Palm has released the latest version of webOS 1.1 bringing in a number of changes and improvements and - cough - accidentally re-enabling iTunes synching for owners of the Pre smartphone. Palm has released ...

34. Google Chrome OS: Gcrap reveals the next Netscape

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 20 July 2009

    ... company advertised like Google, Google would be broke.   “Not Invented Here” is why HP doesn’t have a more compelling competitor to the iPhone, it is partially why Palm didn’t have the iPod, and ...

35. Palm regains its Mojo with new SDK

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 16 July 2009

    Palm has released its long-awaited Mojo SDK. The new kit provides an application framework based on HTML, CSS and JavaScript web development standards. San Francisco (CA) - Palm has released its long-awaited ...

36. Apple: No more iTunes for Palm’s Pre

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Wednesday, 15 July 2009

    Apple today released an update for its iTunes software, which shuts out devices that pretend to be an iPod or iPhone. Of course, the new iTunes mainly targets Palm’s Pre smartphone, which has been able ...

37. One third of phones will use accelerometers next year

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Thursday, 09 July 2009

    ... predicts that by 2010 as many as one third of mobile phones will use microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), spurred on by features built into iPhones and the Palm Pre. "While few consumers know what accelerometers ...

38. Blackberry "squeezed" by Palm, iPhone sales

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Wednesday, 08 July 2009

      A financial analyst told his clients that sales of Blackberry phones have been squeezed by the iPhone 3GS and Palm Pre. A financial analyst told his clients that sales of Blackberry phones have ...

39. Dozens of companies sued over packet radio patent

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 08 July 2009

    ... Option Wireless, Palm, Panasonic, Seiko, Sharp, Sierra Wireless, Sony, Sony Ericsson, Toshiba, UTstarcom, Xerox and ZTE Corporation. The patents in question are US 6,480,497 and 5,400,338 called Method ...

40. Robot bat has metal muscles

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Tuesday, 07 July 2009

    ... they have developed a "robo-bat" skeleton. The fully assembled skeleton rests easily in the palm of the hand and weighs less than six grams. The researchers are currently completing fabrication and ...

41. Feds probe major carriers over possible anti-trust violations

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 07 July 2009

    ... and manufacturers, such as Sprint and Palm, are expected to be discussed.  ...

42. Palm Pre headed for Europe

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Tuesday, 07 July 2009

    The Palm Pre smartphone will be available in the UK, Ireland, Germany and Spain, in time for Christmas. The Palm Pre smartphone will be available in the UK, Ireland, Germany and Spain, in time for ...

43. End the iPhone exclusivity

    (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

    Monday, 29 June 2009

    ... mobile market can only benefit consumers. And Apple, as it fights to grow market share against RIM and increasingly aggressive Nokia, Palm and others, will need all the channels it can to maximize consumer ...

44. Plucky Palm predicts Pre has bright future

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Friday, 26 June 2009

    Plucky little Palm  turned in a loss of $105 million on revenues in its fourth quarter of $86.8 million, but predicted a bright future ahead because of its Palm Pre product.Plucky little Palm  ...

45. Palm Pre App Catalog exceeds one million downloads

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Thursday, 25 June 2009

    Downloads from the Palm Pre App Catalog have reportedly exceeded the one million mark. On launch day, Palm sold 50k devices and their App Catalog experienced 100k downloads - an average of 2 apps downloaded ...

46. Intel + Nokia: In search of relevance

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Thursday, 25 June 2009

    ... Apple or a partnership with RIM, Palm, or Google would be vastly more powerful, because they are all seen as major players in the targeted segment today.    Strategically for Nokia, this is ...

47. TG Daily’s Dads and Grads Product Giveaway: Play along and win!

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 19 June 2009

    ... docking sound system ready to go anywhere and fits into the palm of a hand without compromising sound- proving that size does not always matter! · Connected to your computer, upgrades your speakers, keeps ...