Archive for the ‘Platforms: PalmOS’ Category

Opera Launches Opera Mobile Store

March 8th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS, Platforms: BlackBerry, Platforms: PalmOS, Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

Opera has launched it’s own browser based app store called Opera Mobile Store. The app store is active in over 200 countries and supports platforms like Android, BlackBerry, Palm and Symbian.

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Handcase Delivers PalmOS Games to PC

September 22nd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: PalmOS | No Comments »

Handcase has released a PalmOS emulator specific for playing PalmOS games on the PC. By releasing the emulator, the company hopes to continue sales of its own and other’s PalmOS software.

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HTC Will not Acquire Palm

April 23rd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A, Platforms: PalmOS | 2 Comments »

According to Reuters, a source within HTC has confirmed that the Korean cellphone vendor will not be acquiring Palm. HTC decided so after checking Palm’s financials.

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Palm Looses Exec, Starts Retention Program

April 20th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People, Platforms: PalmOS | No Comments »

More bad news for Palm today as Michael Abbott, their SVP of Software and Services has decided to leave the company. Michael was one of the nine members of Palm’s management team.

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RadioShack Ditches Palm

April 20th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: PalmOS | No Comments »

As if Palm didn’t have enough distribution problems already, one of the US biggest electronics retailers has started to remove the Palm Pre and Palm Pixi phones from its shelves.

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Falcone Buys Palm Shares

April 19th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A, Platforms: PalmOS | No Comments »

Hedge fund manager Philip Falcone has purchased a large number of shares of Palm. In total, his company (Harbinger Capital) now owns nearly 9.5% of the troubled hardware vendor.

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T-Mobile Launches SoftwareLoad in the UK

April 14th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution, Platforms: BlackBerry, Platforms: PalmOS, Platforms: Symbian, Platforms: Windows Mobile | No Comments »

T-Mobile has announced the launch of Softwareload.co.uk. The UK is the second market for T-Mobile to launch the mobile offering as it first needed to prove itself in the German market.

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Palm not Happy with Overclocking

March 29th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: PalmOS | No Comments »

Recently, several developers have released patches to overclock devices based on WebOS. As a lot of developers have been praising them in order to deliver faster games and apps, the company now reacted officially.

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Palm Starts Developer Purchase Program

March 15th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: PalmOS | No Comments »

This month seems to be development month at Palm. After releasing their PDK and a special version of Unreal Engine 3 at the GDC last week, the company now announced a Developer Purchase Program.

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Palm Adds Video Previews to App Catalog

March 3rd, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: PalmOS | No Comments »

Shortly after the release of their new SDK, Palm announced a nice upgrade to their App Catalog. While submitting or updating a new application or game, developers can now include a YouTube Video.