Posts Tagged ‘Palm’

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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Palm Extends $1 Million Developer Competition

April 14th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: WebOS | No Comments »

In Palm’s Hot Apps Rewards, the company extended the deadline to June 30th. With a special leaderboard, developers are also updated on their performance in the competition.

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Huawei Also Eyeballing Palm

April 14th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: WebOS | No Comments »

Next to HTC, Reuters expects Huawei to already be talking with Palm about a takeover. Huawei is a competitor of HTC that is known for many operator branded phones in Europe and the US.

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HTC Eyeballing Palm

April 14th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: WebOS | No Comments »

According to a story from Bloomberg, HTC is playing around with the ideas of releasing their own mobile operating system or just to acquire Palm. HTC is currently ruling the Android and Windows Mobile markets.

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iPad Outsells WebOS

April 6th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS, Platforms: WebOS | No Comments »

Apple has all reasons to celebrate the launch of the iPad. While being on sale only a few days, the device already sold more units then Palm sold WebOS based smartphones in the last quarter.

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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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GDC: Unreal Engine Ready for WebOS

March 12th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: WebOS | No Comments »

While we wrote about the unveiling of Unreal Engine 3 for the iPhone last Wednesday, Palm has now surprised us with the announcement that WebOS will also support UE3 based mobile games.