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Palm Smartphone From Verizon by Early 2010

John Paczkowski in News on November 17, 2009 at 9:02 am PT

For Palm, 2010 will be a year of channel expansion, with its new webOS handsets coming to more carriers. Top among them, Verizon, which has been rumored to be getting a device “like the Palm Pre” since Palm launched it. In a research note to investors today, Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu says a Palm smartphone from Verizon is pretty much inevitable.

With Maps Navigation, Google Puts Dedicated GPS Makers on a Road to Nowhere

John Paczkowski in News on October 29, 2009 at 3:00 am PT

Google is moving into your market. For tech companies, few words are more frightening, and yesterday we saw why. The mere announcement of Google Maps Navigation sent shares of established GPS device makers like Garmin and TomTom into an ugly downward spiral.