11 posts and columns on Jeff Hawkins

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Tech Titans Fund Undocumented Students

in News on March 6 at 4:02 am PT

A group of Silicon Valley technology leaders, impatient with attempts to rewrite immigration laws, is funding efforts to help undocumented youths attend college, find jobs and stay in the country despite their illegal status.

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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Hewlett-Packard’s PC Business: What Happens Next?

in News on August 19, 2011 at 5:00 am PT

The biggest news out of today’s rapid succession of announcements from HP concerned its plans to study “strategic alternatives” for its personal computer business. Here’s a rundown on what to expect.
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FacePalm: HP Loses VP of Product Management for webOS to Numenta

in News on April 4, 2011 at 12:24 pm PT

The brain drain at Hewlett-Packard’s Palm unit continues with another departure. This one is particularly high profile, though it seems to have gone unnoticed. Joe Hayashi, VP of product management for webOS, left the company in March for the VP of marketing gig at Numenta.

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.

Silicon Valley Leaders Say No to Proposition 8 With New Group and Ad

in News on October 30, 2008 at 9:19 am PT

Today, a panoply of prominent tech and Internet leaders is taking a very public stand against a controversial initiative before California voters, which would eliminate the current legal right of same-sex couples to marry. Silicon Valley has had a long history of supporting gay rights. And recently, Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin has made a strong statement opposing Proposition 8, while Apple gave $100,000 to the help defeat it.

Palm Goes Down Market

in News on September 28, 2007 at 12:39 am PT

MarketWatch’s Paul Lin talks to Palm CEO Ed Colligan about its new $99 Centro smart phone, unveiled yesterday. I’m going to use my $100 rebate I get from the I-had-to-have-it-before-my-brother iPhone to get one! And I’ll even have a dollar left over for a refreshing can of soda. Watch Colligan explain here: Hopefully, the Centro [...]

Palm Foleo: The Entire D5 Demo With Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher

in News on September 5, 2007 at 1:27 am PT

Well, this video of the launch and demo of Palm’s Foleo should be a collector’s item, given that the company decided to junk the much-hyped “mobile companion”, created by Palm’s legendary inventor Jeff Hawkins, just yesterday. Hawkins showed off the device, pictured here, which was supposed to go on sale this summer for $499, at [...]

1999 Called. It Wants Its Vadem Clio Back. Sharp Mobilon Pro, Too.

in News on September 4, 2007 at 5:22 pm PT

Maybe the Foleo wasn’t Palm founder Jeff Hawkins’s “best idea ever.” This afternoon Palm said it is scrapping the “mobile companion” that it launched with great fanfare in late May. “In the course of the past several months, it has become clear that the right path for Palm is to offer a single, consistent user experience around this new platform design and a single focus for our platform development efforts,” Palm CEO Ed Colligan wrote in a post to Palm’s blog. “To that end, and after careful deliberation, I have decided to cancel the Foleo mobile companion product in its current configuration and focus all of our energies on delivering our next-generation platform and the first smart phones that will bring this platform to market.”

Palm Foleo

in D5 on May 30, 2007 at 10:31 am PT

Some background on the Palm Foleo from creator Jeff Hawkins: “If the smart phone is a truly capable computer and billions of people have them, some of them are going to need a larger display. Smart-phone screens are just too small. People need a mobile companion, a device that extends their smart phones.”

Countdown to D: All Things Digital

in News, May 28, 2007 at 12:08 am PT