Gartner: Microsoft beats PalmSource in PDAs
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Worldwide shipments of personal digital assistants (PDAs) using Microsoft Corp.&#39;s Windows CE operating system have surpassed those using PalmSource Inc.
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Blog: Jeff Hawkins unveils Palm's latest at D5.
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Many people don&#39;t use a handheld organizer for anything but tracking their calendar appointments and contacts lists. For them, there&#39;s no reason to spend more than $100, in the form of Palm&#39;s Zire 21.
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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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Microsoft&#39;s Windows CE has knocked Palm off the PDA operating system sales top spot for the first time, newly released market research has revealed.
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A consistent theme among many people in PDA forums around the Internet lately has been that Palm OS based PDAs are not making the effort to cater to the need for more useful features (for example, there is only one current PDA model that includes Wifi
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Palm used to dominate the market with the best gadget. What went wrong? Mike Elgan gives his views.
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This little OQO  machine is certainly pretty cool.  The biggest problem though is that it doesn't run Linux.  This leaves you with a device heavier than your PDA and all the insecurity and bloat of Windows and with a price tag of only sub $2000.  People don't care what OS their PDA/Handtop runs.  It can run an alternative OS and for the most part consumers don't care.  WinCE hasn't exactly been a stellar market success.  While Microsoft does have significant market share PalmOS, Symbian, and Linux are doing just fine.  Also most of the WinCE devices never have the fit and finish of their Palm and Symbian counterparts.  I don't know where OQO thinks they are going to fit in.  If they were to  ...
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Microsoft Corp. is no longer an also-ran in the market for handheld computer software. For the last three months, gadgets running the software giant&#39;s Windows Mobile operating system outsold
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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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SUNNYVALE, Calif. PalmSource -- the maker of Palm operating systems for handheld computers -- plans to introduce new software tomorrow to serve as the brains for so-called smart phones.
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PC Magazine - ACCESS executives at the 3GSM trade show today demonstrated their new Linux-based successor to the once-popular Palm OS &#150; but they still couldn't give any details as to when, or even if, it would appear on any retail devices.
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This fourth priority&#39;s main focus has been improving or obtaining CRM and ERP software for the past year and a half. PalmSource said on Tuesday that it is releasing the e-mail application interface needed
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Microsoft Corp. has overtaken rival PalmSource Inc. in the handheld-computer software market, the Washington Post reported Saturday.
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NEW YORK - PalmSource&#39;s planned acquisition of China MobileSoft signals its desire to expand its presence in Asian markets, as well as to produce a new, Linux-based version of its handheld operating system.
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Blog: Palm revealed earlier this year that it's working on its own Linux-based version of the venerable Palm OS, but it's not going to arrive until next year.
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(InfoWorld) - Research in Motion held onto its spot as the world's largest PDA vendor thanks to swelling demand for wireless e-mail, according to a market report released Tuesday. RIM shipped more than 1.8 million BlackBerry handhelds in the fourth quarter, pushing its total 2006 PDA shipments up 10 percent over last year to 3.5 million, according to Gartner. Despite its success, RIM's shipments grew more slowly than the overall market rate of 18.4 percent and much more slowly than smaller competitors like Mio Technology, up 112.1 percent on sales of its global positioning system-enabled devices, and Sharp, up 166.2 percent on sales of its Sidekick. The biggest losers in the industry were Palm, whose PDA shipments dropped 29 percent, and Hewlett-Packard, which dropped 24.1 percent. RIM still dominates the industry with 19.8 percent market share, but the other four vendors are now locked in a tight race, all claiming shipments between 1.4 million and 1.9 million units. Palm ranks second with 11.1 percent share, followed by HP with 9.7 percent, Mio with 8.5 percent, and Sharp with 8 percent. One reason for the shift is that RIM has been migrating its product mix from PDAs to smartphones, lead by the success of its BlackBerry Pearl, Gartner analyst Todd Kort said in the report. That trend applies to the entire market, too, as PDA vendors included cellular connectivity in 60 percent of their products in 2006, up from 47 percent in 2005. Gartner defines a PDA as a data-centric device that may offer voice communication but focuses on features like instant on/off and synchronizing files with a PC. The segment includes cellular PDAs, such as RIM's BlackBerry 87xx, but excludes smartphones, such as the BlackBerry 81xx and Palm's Treo 750. Inside those PDAs, Microsoft's Windows CE was both the most popular OS and the fastest growing. Designers used Windows CE in 56.1 percent of all PDAs in 2006, an increase of 38.8 percent from 2005. RIM's OS held a distant second place with 19.8 percent of the market, while the Palm OS lost nearly one-third of its platforms and held onto just 11.7 percent share. At the bottom of the market, fourth-place Symbian slumped to 5.4 percent share, and Linux rose to 0.9 percent.