6 posts and columns on Helio

Myspace Modernizes Mobile Site and App

in Social on November 30, 2010 at 12:13 pm PT

Remember when there was a whole phone–in fact a whole carrier–oriented around the booming social network Myspace? Lately, Myspace’s mobile offerings have been more basic and sparsely updated, but today the company announced a makeover.

Exclusive: Palm Loses Mobile Design Guru Matias Duarte to Google

in News on May 27, 2010 at 4:45 am PT

Looks like Palm is suffering a bit of post-acquisition talent drain. Mobile user interface master Matias Duarte has left the company and hired on at the most obvious of places: Google. His new job? User Experience Director for Android.

Department of Déjà Vu: Last Microsoft Retail Store Foray Was a Bust

in News on February 13, 2009 at 6:00 am PT

Displaying BoomTown’s advanced age and elephantine cache of meaningless tech memories, after news yesterday that the software giant was plunging into the retail market, I was surprised to find little mention that Microsoft’s last store effort had ended in failure in 2001. That’s not to say it’s a particularly good or bad idea to hire a former Dreamworks and Wal-Mart exec named David Porter as vice president of retail stores to create Microsoft-branded stores–or as the company announced yesterday, “to create a better PC and Microsoft retail purchase experience.” Just as long as the Zunes go on the back shelf!

EarthLink Announces Third-Quarter Employee Loss

in News on August 28, 2007 at 3:40 pm PT

EarthLink will have several hundred fewer jobs to offshore come tomorrow. This afternoon, the struggling Internet service provider announced plans to sack 900 employees–about half its workforce–as part of a broad corporate restructuring that will shutter company offices in San Francisco; Orlando, Fla.; Knoxville, Tenn.; and Harrisburg, Penn. “While we see this as an important [...]

Helio’s New Ocean Has a Clever Design For Phone and Email

in Personal Technology on May 10, 2007 at 12:01 am PT

Walt Mossberg tests out the new smart phone from Helio. He finds the Ocean has an elegant solution to the common design problem of how to optimize smart phones both for making voice calls and for email and Web surfing.

Freeing Google From the Desktop

in The Digital Solution on November 15, 2006 at 12:01 am PT

We put Google’s suite of mobile programs through the ringer to see if we might let it infiltrate our on-the-go lifestyle as easily as Google search has become an everyday part of our computer’s browser.