Web OS

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.

D: All Things Digital @ CES: Live-Streaming Interviews With Hastings (Netflix), Rubinstein (Palm) and Rubin (Google)

Kara Swisher in News on December 21, 2009 at 8:30 am PT

D: All Things Digital is packing up our wagon and taking it on the road right after the holiday, with a special “mini” session at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Organized by The Wall Street Journal, the interview event will take place Friday, Jan. 8, 2010, at the Venetian hotel. Because space is limited, we will be live-streaming the entire thing on the site, starting 3:30 pm PT and ending at 5:30 pm. On the ATD red-hot seats: Reed Hastings, CEO, president and chairman of Netflix, to be queried by MediaMemo’s Peter Kafka; Jon Rubinstein, chairman and CEO of Palm, talking to BoomTown; and Google VP of Engineering Andy Rubin, who will be interviewed by Walt Mossberg.

Syncing to a New Low

Nitrozac and Snaggy in News on October 5, 2009 at 12:48 pm PT

Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site. (Click on the image to see a bigger version.)

Apple COO: "We Will Not Stand for Having Our IP Ripped Off"

John Paczkowski in News on January 21, 2009 at 3:20 pm PT

An interesting tidbit from Apple’s first-quarter earnings call just now. Asked for his company’s view on new iPhone rivals like the Palm Pre and handsets running Google’s Android OS, Apple COO Tim Cook answered with a bit of considered saber rattling. “We like competition–as long as our competitors don’t rip off our IP,” he said. “And we’re going to go after anyone who does.” Like, say, Palm?

Apple COO: “We Will Not Stand for Having Our IP Ripped Off”

John Paczkowski in News on January 21, 2009 at 3:20 pm PT

An interesting tidbit from Apple’s first-quarter earnings call just now. Asked for his company’s view on new iPhone rivals like the Palm Pre and handsets running Google’s Android OS, Apple COO Tim Cook answered with a bit of considered saber rattling. “We like competition–as long as our competitors don’t rip off our IP,” he said. “And we’re going to go after anyone who does.” Like, say, Palm?

Palm Shares Up 157 Percent; S&P Down 5.9 Percent

John Paczkowski in News on January 20, 2009 at 11:14 am PT

What an astonishingly potent elixir of life Palm’s Pre announcement has proven to be, eh? Just a few weeks ago, the company’s shares were trading below $3, having been dragged deep into the mud by a grotesque conga line of quarterly losses (six, consecutively). Palm’s market value was a third of what it was at the beginning of the year, sales of its Treo smartphones were down to 599,000 units–a drop of 13 percent–and it held a paltry 2.1 percent of the smartphone market.

Palm Shares Up 157 Percent; S&P Down 5.9 Percent

John Paczkowski in News on January 20, 2009 at 11:14 am PT

What an astonishingly potent elixir of life Palm’s Pre announcement has proven to be, eh? Just a few weeks ago, the company’s shares were trading below $3, having been dragged deep into the mud by a grotesque conga line of quarterly losses (six, consecutively). Palm’s market value was a third of what it was at the beginning of the year, sales of its Treo smartphones were down to 599,000 units–a drop of 13 percent–and it held a paltry 2.1 percent of the smartphone market.

(Long) Weekend Update, 1.19.09

Beth Callaghan in News on January 19, 2009 at 9:56 am PT

The Web never stops publishing, but a tech blog definitely slows down on a market holiday. To wit: A (Long) Weekend Update, and best wishes on Martin Luther King, Jr. day.