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Palm Disappoints

in News on December 17, 2009 at 1:26 pm PT

The second-quarter loss Palm reported Thursday afternoon was narrower than the one it reported last year, but still fell far short of what Wall Street had been expecting. The company did manage to ship a total of 783,000 smartphone units during the quarter, though, a five percent decrease from last quarter but a year-over-year increase of 41 percent.
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Palm's Developer Program Not Nearly So Annoying as Apple's

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

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.
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Phone SDK NDA DOA

in News on October 1, 2008 at 11:21 am PT

Apple has finally realized that blocking open collaboration among iPhone developers may not be the best approach to iPhone application development. And so this morning it dropped the nondisclosure agreement with which it had hamstrung developers by prohibiting them from discussing iPhone programming and caused no end of consternation in the iPhone dev community.