PalmSource Buy Yields New OS
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December 9, 2004 - PalmSource Inc. has purchased China MobileSoft Ltd., Nanjing, a vendor of mobile phone software and operating systems.
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PalmSource Inc. on Tuesday launched the latest version of its operating system, which targets manufacturers of the increasing number of advanced cellular phones in the market.
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Mobile software provider PalmSource is leaping into a market with a potentially huge upside with the acquisition of China MobileSoft (CMS), and at the same time is giving a big boost to the open source developer commmunity.
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PalmSource is not the only mobile device manufacturer with high interests in Linux, NTT DoCoMo has just announced an agreement with MontaVista Software, a developer of Linux software for mobile handsets and other related devices, to acquire majority stake
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PalmSource has bought mobile phone software developer China MobileSoft with a view to developing a version of Palm OS Cobalt that will run on Linux in mobile devices.
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By John Markoff  Fifteen years after pioneering personal computers that nestled comfortably in a user's hand, Palm has announced plans to sell a two- handed laptop-size machine called the Foleo.
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Palm is buying -- or rather, buying back -- what it used to own. This week, the Sunnyvale, California, firm announced that it purchased a perpetual license to the Palm Garnet operating system from Access Systems Americas. Garnet is used in all of Palm's current handhelds and smartphones, including its popular Treo line.
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PalmSource&#39;s latest iteration of the Palm OS operating system, code named Cobalt, is expected to be available in consumer mobile phone devices in the first half of 2005.
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A November settlement with Taiwan's Acer helped push PalmSource into the black during the second quarter of its fiscal year, even as shipments of Palm OS-based devices declined compared to the same period last year, the Sunnyvale, California, company said Wednesday.
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Apple and Microsoft share foe Back in the day, Microsoft was the new kid on the block when it came to mobile devices like PDAs, munching up Palm's market share and tweaking the interest of application providers already familiar with Windows and Microsoft's applications.â¦
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PalmSource is set to announce its first operat- ing system for smart phones, with applications typically found on desktop computers.
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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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PalmSource today reported the results of its most recent financial quarter. Revenue was up slightly, but still not enough to make the company profitable.
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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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Intrigued by Palm's new "smartphone companion" but not ready to bet on an unproven and probably doomed Linux-based ultra-compact computer? We've got seven attractive options for you.
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How to buy back PalmSource without buying back PalmSource Palm has effectively committed itself to producing handheld devices based on the Palm OS - which it no longer owns - by agreeing to pay $44m for a perpetual licence for the source code underlying the Garnet incarnation of the operating system. The move is tantamount to Palm re-acquiring PalmSource.â¦
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Palm used to dominate the market with the best gadget. What went wrong? Mike Elgan gives his views.