Microsoft Snatches PDA Market Lead From PalmSource
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Microsoft Corp. led the market in the third quarter for operating systems used in personal digital assistants, surpassing for the first time the Palm OS that dominated the handheld-computer segment for years.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. &#151; Microsoft Corp.'s software platform for personal digital assistants took over the market lead from PalmSource Inc. for the first time in the third quarter, according to market research released Friday.
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PalmSource with its popular product PalmOS plans on producing a new, Linux-based version of their handheld operating system. The move towards Linux-based Operation System for mobile &amp; handheld devices is supposed
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PalmSource is to focus on wireless devices with its new version of Palm OS, but can it succeed against the likes of Microsoft and Symbian?
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Palm OS developer PalmSource Wednesday reported a profitable quarter on increased sales compared to the same quarter a year ago. By Mobile Pipeline News.
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PalmOne Inc., the leading maker of handheld computers, said Tuesday it licensed Microsoft Corp. software that enables secure delivery of corporate e-mail to portable devices.
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Palmsource has introduced a new version of Cobalt, its software platform for smartphones. The new smartphone OS includes Wi-Fi and Bluetooth support and an enhanced Web browser.
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(InfoWorld) - Palm plans to announce a new type of mobile device on Wednesday as it continues its product-line transition from simple PDAs to more advanced smartphones. Consumer electronics vendors are rushing to develop handsets that offer mobile e-mail and Internet browsing instead of merely calendars and contact lists. Apple added fuel to this fire in January when CEO Steve Jobs announced he would launch the iPhone in June, combining the iPod music player with a digital camera, smartphone, and touchscreen display. Now Palm is telling industry watchers that founder Jeff Hawkins will unveil the new device during his talk at a trade show in Carlsbad, California called D: All Things Digital. Palm is keeping quiet about the details, even declining to brief industry analysts ahead of the announcement. But one possibility is theÂ Linux-based smartphoneÂ that Palm CEO Ed Colligan has promised to release before the end of 2007. Such a device would improve performance compared to Palm's current Treo by running the Palm OS on top of a Linux kernel, Colligan told analysts at the company's annual investor day in April. Palm will also continue to use Microsoft's Windows Mobile OS. In the PDA segment,Â vendors used Windows on 62.1 percent of handsets in the first quarter of 2007, compared to just 0.7 percent for Linux, according to Gartner. By continuing to develop applications on both tracks, Palm hopes to win customers by offering them more options with its Treo smartphone than competitors like Research in Motion's BlackBerry, Motorola's Q, and Samsung's BlackJack. Another possibility for Palm is to re-architect its Treo into a more stylish, consumer-friendly device, said analyst Jack Gold, founder of the research firm J. Gold Associates. "They are being left behind by the likes of BlackBerry and Nokia and Moto as far as device design goes," Gold said. "I wouldn't be surprised to see a new navigation paradigm but not too far away form a standard phone. They don't want to lose their bread and butter clients, who are mostly business users who want an e-mail device."
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PalmSource&#39;s European developer conference is going on now in Germany, and this company is using this opportunity to show off Palm OS Cobalt 6.1, the latest version of its operating system.
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Microsoftâs Windows CE surpassed Palm OS shipments in worldwide PDA operating systems market in 3Q. Worldwide personal digital assistant (PDA) shipments exceeded 2.8 million units, as Microsoft Windows CE
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(InfoWorld) - Access Co., the Japanese company thatÂ purchased PalmSourceÂ last year, has sold a perpetual license for the Palm OS to PDA-maker Palm Inc. for $44 million, the companies said Wednesday. The nonexclusive source code license allows Palm to modify the code base of Palm OS Garnet for use in any of its devices, including the Palm Treo family of smart phones, as well as other handhelds, Access said. The agreement also gives Palm the right to use the Palm OS Garnet in whole or in part in any Palm product, including alongside other system technologies. The agreement comes just over a year after Access bought PalmSource for about $324.3 million. PalmSource was originally the software division of Palm Inc., and wasÂ spun off in October 2003. Â
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Handhelds that use Windows CE hold 48 percent market share worldwide, up from 41 percent a year ago. What's Palm to do?
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Microsoft overtook PalmSource in the third quarter as the world&#39;s biggest operating system for handheld computers, a survey showed on Friday.
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PalmSource finally unveiled its new OS, version 1.1 of Palm OS Cobalt, as &quot;the first PalmOS designed specifically to support phones&quot;.
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Analysts said the smartphone enhancements hold the potential to bring PalmSource into an expanding market that still has room despite early inroads by Symbian and Microsoft.
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Palm handhelds with the Palm OS aren't going anywhere anytime soon. The company has signed a perpetual licensing agreement with the operating system's owners, Access Systems Americas.
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PalmOne has licensed technology from Microsoft to make its devices work directly with Microsoft&#39;s Exchange e-mail server, the companies said this week.