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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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 record video.
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 game programmer.
