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Roger and Pre: Those Were the Days, McNamee (He Thought Palm Would Always Be)

Kara Swisher in Mobile on August 19, 2011 at 7:30 pm PT

It’s been a bad week for those who were big fans of Palm and its webOS operating system. So, it’s clearly time for a little McNamee.

Full D8 Interview Video: Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs

Kara Swisher in D8 on July 19, 2010 at 8:00 am PT

As promised, All Things Digital is posting the full videos from our eighth D: All Things Digital conference, held in early June. Here’s Walt Mossberg’s interview with Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs. The company, which commercialized the CDMA mobile standard and whose chips can be found in many of today’s smartphones, is aiming to do the same for a range of other consumer electronics devices, such as tablets.

Palm CEO Jon "Ruby" Rubinstein Talks About the HP Deal–He's Staying, Will Always Love the Pre Mirror and Still Will Not Be Touching Any iPhones

Kara Swisher in News on April 28, 2010 at 4:03 pm PT

After an All Things Digital report last week on Hewlett-Packard being the most likely suitor for Palm, despite multiple reports of intense interest from HTC and Lenovo from China, in an interview with BoomTown this afternoon after the $1.2 billion acquisition was announced, CEO Jon Rubinstein jokingly asked how we knew about the deal. We didn’t! It was a complete guess, Ruby! Actually it was a very informed one by Digital Daily’s John Paczkowski, but his cogent analysis of the synergies between Palm and HP is pretty much what Rubinstein said drove the action.

Palm: Those Were the Videos, My Friend, I Thought Roger McNamee Would Never End (Up Selling)

Kara Swisher in News on April 12, 2010 at 5:27 am PT

With rumors flying hither and yon about the sale of Palm–likely to an Asian company, such as HTC or Lenovo–BoomTown is getting all misty for those days of hope that the little innovative smartphone pioneer might actually prevail against the giants. Not for the creepy lady in the advertising for the Pre, mind you, but everything else. Thus, here are three videos in which the dream was still alive at Palm.

Teeny-Tiny Pixi Phone From Palm Tries Killing Giant Hype for Apple Event Today

Kara Swisher in News on September 9, 2009 at 1:53 am PT

Oh, BoomTown fears this is not going to end well for the weensy little smart phone Palm is debuting today on–what an amazing coincidence!–the very same day Apple is throwing its big product bash in San Francisco, at which Mac fanboys fervently hope that Supreme Leader Steve Jobs might even appear. You don’t step on Superman of Silicon Valley’s cape, of course, but the device with the aggressively cute name of Pixi is apparently attempting just that. Thus, this fairytale might have a not-so-happy ending.

Palm Pre Commercial Keeps Mirroring the Ladies

Kara Swisher in News on July 15, 2009 at 5:05 am PT

In a recent onstage interview, Palm’s major investor, Roger McNamee, and I got into a minor tussle over the mirror on the back of the just-launched Pre smartphone and his assertion that ladies in particular would love it. Take that, reflectively-challenged Apple iPhone! In any case, Palm is certainly not backing away from the female demographic with its latest commercial, which features an unusually pale woman with a sing-song and vaguely creepy voice. It feels a lot like an ad for a new shampoo that promises lustrous locks. All the better to look good in a mirror, presumably.

Rubinstein and McNamee: Remaking Palm

John Paczkowski in D7 on May 28, 2009 at 12:14 pm PT

What a wonderful curative the Palm Pre has proven to be for Palm. Especially considering that the device has yet to ship. In early January of this year, the company’s shares were trading below $3, having been dragged deep into the mud by a string of nasty quarterly losses. Five months later, after the Pre’s announcement at CES, they’re trading at over $10.