It’s about that time of year again, the time of year when little technophiles the world over dream of new gadgets, and electronics companies trek from places far away to descend upon the desert to display their latest wares. Yes, it’s time again for CES, but what is it, exactly? What, Where and Who The International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is an annual electronics trade show...
Palm Pre Touchstone dock It’s beginning to look more and more like the iPhone 5 will indeed just be a minor update, or an iPhone 4S as some have taken to calling it. According to a recent report from The Wall Street Journal, the iPhone 5 will be thinner and lighter than the iPhone 4, and sport an 8 megapixel camera along with a new dual-core chip from Apple. These rumors have been...
Monday’s Top 5 Tablets post was so much fun I decided to make another list today. I’m running a bit behind today thanks to an 11th hour invite to Google’s Inside Search event, so forgive my tardiness here. But alas, a few hours later, here are my current Top Five Phones. A quick note: Thanks to everyone who commented on the Tablets post, and double thanks to those of you who chimed in...
It’s six months since HP purchased Palm, and while there has been a lot of talk about what sort of devices this would bring about, there has been nothing tangible that one could hold in their hands as of yet. All of that has changed today with two major announcements coming out about not only webOS 2.0, but also the Palm Pre 2 will be hitting store shelves in the not too distant future...
Since the news first broke about HP buying Palm, people have been speculating what exactly the purchase was about. There was no question that it was largely about WebOS (yes, I know the it’s “webOS”, but I also refuse to write “iPod touch” or “Yahoo!” with their stupid little spellings and punctuations), but the big thing that no one knew was what would happen with the Palm Pre and...
It isn’t often that technology bloggers get taken totally off guard, but just such an event has happened with HP acquiring Palm. As recently as last week, Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein was claiming that Palm would attempt to stay independent, but there was talk that buyers were reviewing a possible purchase and quickly backing away. Some reports said that Lenovo was still interested in...
Rumors have been circulating for a while now that Palm has retained banking advisers to assist with the possible sale of Palm to another company. The once king of the PDA market and a pioneer in the smartphone sector has fallen on hard times with its Palm Pre and Palm Pixi failing to live up to sales expectations, and it has begun to look like a sale may be the only possible solution...
It’s always sad when you see an animal struggling for its life and you know you can’t do anything to save it. That’s kind of how I feel when I look at Palm. It’s almost as if its an ancient sabertooth tiger that has fallen into the tar pits, and although it is struggling to save itself, everyone who sees it knows that it is doomed. At one time Palm was king of the hill when it came...
Being the CEO of a multi-million dollar company has to be a tough gig. You have shareholders to answer to, you are responsible the livelihood of thousands of employees and everything you say is analyzed to death for a possible hidden meaning behind the words that might hint to the overall health of the company. Yes, it must be a tough job, but sometimes when you do analyze what they...
No one can say that Palm hasn’t tried to reinvent itself, and you also can’t say that they haven’t given it the college try, but is it enough? Is it time for Palm to throw in the towel and call it a day, or does the company simply need to reinvent itself again? On Feb. 25th, Palm decided to release a statement about its earnings to get out ahead of its earnings report in March. It...