A new program from HP is equipping African health workers with cell phones so that information about outbreaks can be collected and analyzed as fast as possible.READ»
Verizon announced that they will not carry any of Microsoft's do-or-die Windows Phone 7 phones at launch--or any time this year. That could well doom Windows Phone 7 to a Palm-like demise.READ»
Palm's WebOS has been a critical success and a commercial failure. But now, bought by HP and with a new version 2.0 heading to developers, can Palm get that second chance?READ»
The struggling smartphone maker Palm has, according to Bloomberg sources, put itself up for sale. Potential buyers include HTC and Lenovo, and a sale to either would completely shake up the smartphone industry.READ»
Due to poor sales, Verizon just slashed the prices of the Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus in several ways. Oddly enough, those cuts make Palm's underdog smartphones ideal iPad companions.READ»
Palm's just let loose the latest version of its innovative webOS (1.2) on the Pre-user world. It's packed with tweaks and enables 3G Amazon MP3 downloads over the air--but there's one important feature missing: the Pre still can't ...READ»
Palm's secret sauce for its Pre smartphone is its clever WebOS software; it's the tech that'll carry into future Palm phones. Palm now appears to be trying to inject some much-needed gaming fun into the platform, looking to hire a ...READ»
Palm just waved its magic wand and abracadabra'd the Mojo Software Development Kit into public reality. It's the software that developers have been waiting for, and it could turn the Pre into something much more interesting.
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It was only a matter of time before Apple retaliated against Palm's USB chicanery. When it was launched, the Pre boasted full compatibility and syncing with iTunes; the device effectively spoofed the popular Apple software into ...READ»
Some new research by iSuppli has an interesting implication--sparked by the iPhone's innovations, accelerometers are going to be the thing to have in cell phones over the next year. In fact, one in three phones will have them.
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We said the Palm Pre's early performance was "not doing too badly." And now some new figures cement that fact: The Pre has likely sold 300,000 units. That's especially good since it sold only that many phones in the entire ...READ»
The Palm Pre has been out for nearly two weeks, and seems to be doing pretty well. But some numbers have surfaced that cast a shadow over the device's success: Pre users just aren't downloading many apps, despite the fact that there ...READ»
Here's one for the iPhone haters: Just ten days into its life, Palm's Pre seems to be doing not as badly as some hoped. There are, of course, some big plusses and minuses to talk about, and it turns out that some of our early Pre ...READ»
Coders have been hard at work since this past weekend's Pre launch delving into the digital innards of the phone. By tweaking the Reset Doctor, designed to resurrect a crashed phone, they've found all of webOS's root code, and that's led to the first independently developed Palm Pre "apps."READ»
The highly anticipated Palm Pre smartphone arrives in U.S. shops this Saturday, and today multiple reviewers have published their hands-on insights. All in all, they like it--a lot. But it has exactly the shortcomings we predicted.READ»
Palm's Chairman, speaking at the D7 conference yesterday, confirmed that the Palm Pre has a neat trick: It syncs with iTunes just like an iPod would. While that's handy, Apple isn't likely to tolerate the situation for too ...READ»
According to a number of sources, and one direct hint from an AT&T exec, the network is thinking of cheapening its smartphone data tariffs. And actually it really has to, in the face of the Palm Pre and upcoming iPhone.
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