8 posts and columns on Mike Bell

Intel Shows Just How It Plans to Get Into Phones (Video)

in Mobile on January 10 at 5:00 pm PT

In an interview, Intel’s top phone executives talk about the company’s big bet on Android.
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Intel to Detail Its Phone Plans at CES Next Month

in Mobile on December 21, 2011 at 10:17 am PT

The PC chipmaker plans to detail its long-planned move into the Android phone market at next month’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
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Intel's Wireless Chip Guru Anand Chandrasekher Leaves

in Enterprise on March 21, 2011 at 11:42 am PT

The onetime rising star who ran Intel’s hugely successful Centrino platform last decade couldn’t work the same magic with Atom, which has not yet lived up to expectations.

Former Apple Software Chief Joins Palm Backer Elevation Partners

in News on January 12, 2010 at 9:50 am PT

Add another name to the list of former Apple employees resurfacing at Palm and its chief backer, Elevation Partners. Avie Tevanian, who once served as Apple’s chief software technology officer, has joined Elevation as a managing director.
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Apple CEO to Palm: I'll Quit Sniffing Your Org Chart if You Quit Sniffing Mine

in News on August 20, 2009 at 4:28 am PT

Apple appears to have a particular affinity for the unwritten no-poaching agreements said to be so popular among the nation’s biggest tech companies. Earlier this summer, the New York Times reported that Apple may have quietly negotiated an agreement with Google not to hire away each other’s top talent. Now, Bloomberg claims that the company attempted to win a similar commitment from Palm, but was rebuffed.
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Apple CEO to Palm: I’ll Quit Sniffing Your Org Chart if You Quit Sniffing Mine

in News on August 20, 2009 at 4:28 am PT

Apple appears to have a particular affinity for the unwritten no-poaching agreements said to be so popular among the nation’s biggest tech companies. Earlier this summer, the New York Times reported that Apple may have quietly negotiated an agreement with Google not to hire away each other’s top talent. Now, Bloomberg claims that the company attempted to win a similar commitment from Palm, but was rebuffed.
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Apple Alumni Association of Palm, Inc. Announces New Member

in News on August 5, 2009 at 8:47 am PT

Palm has added another Apple alum to its employee roster. Jeff Zwerner, who did stints at Apple as both senior art director and creative director for packaging, has signed on at Palm as senior vice president of brand design.
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Yeah. Those PC Guys Never Stood a Chance, Palm.

in News on January 8, 2009 at 3:00 am PT

For Palm, which lost two-thirds of its market value in 2008, today may well be a watershed event–the point at which its long downward trajectory was suddenly reversed, buoyed up by a new operating system too long in coming. At a Consumer Electronics Show event later this morning, the company is expected to uncrate its Nova OS and a line of Nova-powered offerings with which it hopes to reinvigorate the Palm franchise. Hope, of course, is the operative word here.