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Palm, Once a Leader, Seeks Path in Smartphone Jungle |
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24 Aug, 2008 - 6:38 PM - by jeffyen
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An article in The New York Times covers the direction of Palm as its treads through the mobile business jungle.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — If anyone knows how best to survive a corporate near-death experience, it is Jon Rubinstein.
In 1997 the former Hewlett-Packard engineer was asked by Apple’s founder, Steven P. Jobs, to lead the hardware engineering division at the company, which was then struggling. Apple was wallowing in financial losses and the Mac’s appeal was waning. Mr. Rubinstein agreed, and over the next nine years he and his team of engineers breathed new life into the company by helping develop the iMac and the iPod.
Those experiences should serve him well as he seeks to resuscitate Palm, whose roots in Silicon Valley go back to the PalmPilot, the revolutionary handheld computer, and the Treo, which turned heads as one of the first smartphones...
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 Palm Announces Treo Pro smartphone |
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20 Aug, 2008 - 11:09 PM - by roychang
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Today Palm Inc announced its new Windows Mobile smartphone, the Treo Pro.
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Palm, Inc. today introduced Treo(TM) Pro, an effortlessly usable smartphone for businesses that want to simplify their IT infrastructures and lower costs, and for users who want to stay on top of their professional and personal lives. With its streamlined design and Palm(R) shortcuts layered on Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, Treo Pro is a unique combination of sleek simplicity and robust productivity -- including email, Wi-Fi and GPS capabilities -- that meets the needs of businesses and end users alike. Treo Pro, which will be available from Vodafone and O2 in Europe and from Telstra in Australia, also will be available in an unlocked version in the United States, Europe and Asia Pacific.
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Press Release | Treo Pro website
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Facebook Client for Palm OS |
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16 Jun, 2008 - 2:19 PM - by roychang
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 Palm Inc. has released a native Facebook client for Palm OS that is compatible with Palm Centro, Treo 755p or 680 smartphones.
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Stay connected to your friends on Facebook right from your Centro smartphone. Respond to messages, upload photos and video, and receive status updates just like you’re on the Facebook website. You can browse your friends’ profiles and send out new friend requests.
With Facebook for Palm, you can:
* Send and receive Facebook messages, and respond to friend requests.
* Capture video using your smartphone and post it to your Facebook profile.
* View and post photos, right from your smartphone, or snap and send off new ones.
* Receive News Feeds, change your status, and get friends’ status updates on the go.
* Browse friends’ profiles, post messages to their wall, and send friend requests or search for old friends through Facebook.
* Open your Contacts and dial your friends with just one touch.
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Download the Facebook client from http://mobile.palm.com/facebook with your Palm smartphone.
Facebook's "Facebook for Palm" App site | Palm's "Facebook for Palm" website
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Palm Sells One-millionth Centro |
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02 Apr, 2008 - 12:34 AM - by roychang
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Congratulations to Palm.
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Centro Now Attracting New Smartphone Customers in 10 Countries
Worldwide
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Mar 31, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Palm, Inc. (Nasdaq: PALM) today announced that it has sold its one-millionth Palm(R) Centro(TM) smartphone, demonstrating the $99 product's mass appeal to customers ready to get all the power of a smartphone at the price of a traditional mobile phone.(1) Palm is now shipping Centro in 10 countries worldwide, including Hong Kong, Singapore, India, the UK, Germany, Spain, Ireland, France and Italy, and its already-rapid momentum is set to grow as Palm debuts the product in additional countries around the globe.
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Press Release | Forum Discussion
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