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The frustrating Palm Pre 2 sign up process
QuirksMode writes about the frustrations involved trying to get a Palm Pre 2 up and running. I had an old Palm user account left from a year ago, but couldn’t remember the password. Obviously. When the process asked for it I gave one of my series of passwords and hoped for the best. It was [...]
Continue reading...HP planning to release webOS smartphones in early 2011
Friday, October 8, 2010
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It’s now been slightly less than 6 months since HP acquired Palm for $1.2 billion, and though now ousted HP CEO Mark Hurd explained that the acquisition was more about purchasing Palm’s IP than it was to get into the smartphone business, that doesn’t appear to be the case. Reuters reports that Hewlett-Packard is planning [...]
Continue reading...Apple was interested in acquiring Palm before HP sealed the deal
Thursday, July 15, 2010
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Dan Frommer of Business Insider sheds some light on some of the other tech companies who considered making a play for Palm, who were ultimately acquired by HP for a cool $1.2 billion. Notably, and quite surprisingly, Apple was strongly considering a Palm buyout before the HP deal eventually went down. Citing a source familiar with the [...]
Continue reading...Lynn Fox, former head of PR at Apple and Palm, will not continue on at HP
Saturday, June 26, 2010
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Hewlett Packard spiced things up in the tech world not too long ago when it purchased Palm for $1.2 billion. At the core of HP’s decision to splurge was Palm’s heralded WebOS, which HP plans to put on a tablet of some sort in the near future. In the wake of the acquisition, a number [...]
Continue reading...Palm confused about the delay in porting Flash over to WebOS
Monday, June 21, 2010
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Electronista reports: Adobe hasn’t given any signs that it’s close to porting Flash to webOS, Palm said in an AT&T online app development seminar on Thursday. When asked about the multiple delays, a representative said that Palm didn’t ‘know what the hold-up is’ with getting it ready. Adobe itself hasn’t commented on the state of the [...]
Continue reading...Designer of webOS notifications, Rich Delliger, returns to Apple
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
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During the development of the Palm Pre, a significant number of Apple engineers abandoned ship for Palm. The most notable Apple employee to head over to Palm was, of course, former Apple executive Jon Rubinstein. In any event, Palm’s raid on Apple talent naturally aroused the ire of Steve Jobs, who reportedly engaged in a [...]
Continue reading...HP CEO says Palm acquisition had nothing to do with smartphones
Friday, June 4, 2010
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Back in April, HP purchased Palm for $1.2 billion Earlier this week at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch technology conference, Hewlett-Pacakrd CEO Mark Hurd explained that the Palm acquisition was more about purchasing IP and obtaining an OS capable of running on a variety of web-connected devices. A smartphone, though? Hurd says it’s not [...]
Continue reading...The real reason behind Robbie Bach’s departure?
Thursday, May 27, 2010
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Horace Dediu writes: Bach lost a key account; in fact, he could be responsible for having lost the biggest account that Microsoft ever had. Ballmer is a sales guy and he knows the importance of these relationships. A customer like HP must be managed carefully and their strategy must be steered to fit with yours. [...]
Continue reading...Rumor: HP working on tablet device codenamed the HP Huricane
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
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HP stepped up to the plate a few weeks ago when it acquired Palm for a cool $1.2 billion. The deal not only breathed new life into Palm’s WebOS, but gave HP an actual mobile OS worth talking about. In light of those developments, HP reportedly axed the HP Slate running Windows 7 project that Microsoft [...]
Continue reading...HP buys beleaguered Palm
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Well this is certainly a tech bombshell. It’s no surprise that Palm was looking for a buyer after their efforts to become a player in the smartphone market didn’t go according to plan. But what is surprising is who stepped in to purchase them – Hewelett Packard. In a deal worth $1.2 billion, HP swooped [...]
Continue reading...Palm waives $99 fee for webOS development
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
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Palm just might be starting to realize that, hey, you gotta have apps if you want to compete against the iPhone. To wit, Palm recently waived the $99 fee it formerly required developers to pay if they wanted to get their apps up on Palm’s app store. You know, the one that houses all of [...]
Continue reading...Palm’s Senior VP of software and services prepares to jump ship to Twitter
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
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Is this perhaps another nail in the Palm coffin? As part of their recently submitted SEC filing, Palm stated that their senior VP of software and services, Michael Abbot, would be leaving the company. Abbot was reportedly a driving force behind the largely well-received WebOS platform which, while decent in its own right, simply wasn’t [...]
Continue reading...Palm also exploring WebOS licensing and fundraising options
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
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Following up on a report that Palm executives are looking to sell the company comes word that it may also be open to licensing its WebOS and/or rallying up a new group of investors. Remember that Palm’s financial situation is pretty fragile at the moment, with some financial analysts predicting that Palm’s share price may [...]
Continue reading...Report: Palm looking to sell
Monday, April 12, 2010
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Bloomberg is reporting that Palm is looking to sell the company: Palm Inc., creator of the Pre smartphone, is seeking bids for the company as early as this week, according to three people familiar with the situation. The company is working with Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Frank Quattrone’s Qatalyst Partners to find a buyer, [...]
Continue reading...Palm parts ways with ad agency Modernista
Monday, April 12, 2010
Palm, which is hemorrhaging money, recently decided to part ways with its ad agency Modernista. Modernista was behind some of the Palm Pre’s more interesting advertisements, and truth be told, Palm’s advertising efforts with the Pre were pretty weak and were universally lambasted and laughed at when they first hit the airwaves. In light of [...]
Continue reading...Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein blames Droid for Palm Pre’s lackluster sales
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
After posting disappointing earnings last week, shares of Palm plummeted nearly 20% down to $4.59 a share, marking a new 52 week low for the beleaguered stock. And unfortunately for Palm, it doesn’t seem like there’s much of an upside with a few analysts lowering their price target for Palm all the way down to [...]
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Thursday, February 24, 2011
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