5 posts and columns on Handspring

Dialing Up 20 Years of Gadget Reviews

in Personal Technology on November 2, 2011 at 6:05 pm PT

Walt reflects on two decades of covering personal-consumer products and offers his thoughts on what technological gains might be next.
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History Repeats Itself at Hewlett-Packard webOS Unit

in News on September 6, 2011 at 7:00 am PT

Leaked internal memos elucidate Hewlett-Packard’s plans for the future — such as it is — for the different pieces of its webOS business.
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Ex-Palm Team Finds Success Offering Free Calling and Texting for iPhone and Android

in Mobile on March 16, 2011 at 5:05 pm PT

Pinger struck out with its first idea–a way to make voicemail more like email–but the team appears to have found its niche with its TextFree line of apps which offer free texting and even calling from the iPhone and Android phones. The service also works on devices such as the iPod Touch that don’t normally support calling.

Oh, Donna

in News on February 4, 2009 at 10:44 am PT

With Jeff Hawkins, Donna Dubinsky founded Palm in 1992 and went on to become its CEO. She was part of the brains behind the Palm Pilot–the standard-setting personal digital assistant–upon which Palm built its business. Dubinksy has a long and storied history at Palm and one that will soon end. According to a recent SEC filing, she will soon resign from the company’s board of directors.

Is There a Tool to Help Send Large Files Over the Internet?

in Mossberg’s Mailbox on June 14, 2007 at 12:01 am PT

Walt answers questions about sending large files over the Internet, buying a combo PDA/cellphone, and sharing music on the same local area network.