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Palm Pileup: Weak Smartphone Sales and a Gruesome Q4 Forecast

John Paczkowski in News on March 18, 2010 at 1:22 pm PT

No surprise, following Palm’s dismaying February warning: The earnings news today is grim, though a bit less so than some had feared. The good news: Palm’s loss wasn’t as bad as expected. The bad news: The company is not selling very many smartphones and fourth-quarter revenue is going to be lousy.

Palm’s PDK to Allow Easy Porting of iPhone Apps

John Paczkowski in Mobile on March 5, 2010 at 4:30 am PT

Palm’s single biggest asset is webOS. Sadly, the company’s single biggest deficit–aside from the public’s apparent lack of interest in its smartphones–is the webOS application ecosystem. But that’s changing. At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco next week, Palm plans to release its webOS Plug-in Development Kit, a set of tools to help developers create graphics-intensive games.

Get Your Storage Out of the Cloud

Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on February 23, 2010 at 2:35 pm PT

The cloud is a hip way of describing Web-accessible storage, and whether people know it or not, they’re using this more each day.

Analyst: Palm May Be Acquired in the Next Two Years

John Paczkowski in News on February 2, 2010 at 10:55 am PT

Palm’s got potential–M&A potential. That’s the word from Deutsche Bank analyst Jonathan Goldberg, who believes there’s a good chance the company will be acquired in the next two years.

If You Think AT&T Has Network Problems Now, Just You Wait

John Paczkowski in Mobile on January 6, 2010 at 1:04 pm PT

For AT&T, 2010 will be all about Android and Palm’s webOS. At least, that’s the impression one’s left with after the company’s event this morning at the Consumer Electronics Show, which featured a lot of talk about devices based on those operating systems and little mention of Apple’s iPhone, the device that has overstuffed the company’s wallet almost as obscenely as it has its network.

Palm Pixi Needs a Dusting of Speed

Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on November 17, 2009 at 4:52 pm PT

Palm offers the Pre’s webOS operating system in a tinier package: the Pixi.

Palm's Developer Program Not Nearly So Annoying as Apple's

John Paczkowski in News on October 6, 2009 at 5:05 am PT

Development for Palm’s new webOS platform will begin in earnest come winter with the official opening of the company’s developer program. At a small gathering in San Francisco Monday night, Palm said its developer program will open in December and when it does, it will be a different beast entirely from rival programs by Apple, Google et al.

Palm’s Developer Program Not Nearly So Annoying as Apple’s

John Paczkowski in News on October 6, 2009 at 5:05 am PT

Development for Palm’s new webOS platform will begin in earnest come winter with the official opening of the company’s developer program. At a small gathering in San Francisco Monday night, Palm said its developer program will open in December and when it does, it will be a different beast entirely from rival programs by Apple, Google et al.