Palm drowns Foleo at birth
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Let's work on core stability, first "Foleo is the most exciting product I have ever worked on," Palm founder Jeff Hawkins, May 2007â¦
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Â· Overflow of scalding water killed 10-month-old girlÂ· Inquest hears incident may lead to change in law
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Poor Michael McDowell. He picked quite a year to launch his candidacy for Raybestos Rookie of the Year.
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Not dead, just sleeping Palm CEO Ed Colligan has told Brighthand it won't have devices based on its own version of Palm OS until some time in 2008, despite saying two months ago the devices would be available later this year.â¦
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Four-month-old Damaris Ochoa was near death, born with an enlarged heart that was quickly giving out. Obtaining a transplant in time was a long shot...
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Palm's CEO says the company has made a last-minute decision to not ship its Foleo smart phone companion.
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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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The term âsports filmâ doesnât do justice to âWhite Palms,â a punishing, beautiful drama about a troubled 30-something Hungarian gymnast.
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Palm Inc. posted on its blog an audio interview with founder Jeff Hawkins answering questions about the Foleo, its smart phone companion device.
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Family Center = Bambi's mum First it killed Bambi's mother. And now it's decided to kill a fourteen-month-old wireless service.â¦
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Defending champion Mark Philippoussis was upset in the first round Tuesday at the Heineken Open Shanghai. Philippoussis beat Czech Jiri Novak in last year&#39;s Shanghai final.
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Georgia has too many babies born with infantile paralysis caused by the serious birth defect spina bifida. If all women of reproductive age consumed enough of the B vitamin folic acid
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Sub-sub-notebook that's Palm Pilot for the 21st Century? Computex First Palm's Foleo, now Asus' Eee PC. Different names, but the concept's much the same: a highly compact laptop that focuses on mobile internet access rather than heavy duty personal computing.â¦
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By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES  - A Brazilian pop producer who waskilled earlier this month when he slammed his motorcycle into acar after leaving the Latin Grammy awards was under theinfluence of alcohol at the time of the crash, a coroner'sspokesman said on Tuesday.
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(InfoWorld) - Despite consumers' cool reaction to ultramobile PCs, Palm will launch a handheld computer called Foleo with a full keyboard and 10-inch screen. The product, announced Wednesday, seems to fly against Palm's own strategy of migrating away from PDAsÂ built around data entry to smartphones centered on voice operation. Hardware vendors can earn larger profits selling the more expensive smartphones, such as Palm's Treo, which have grown in popularity thanks to features like mobile e-mail. Now Palm hopes to ride the coattails of smartphone popularity by pitching the Foleo as a "smartphone companion product." Users would carry both devices in their pockets, synchronizing data between the platforms just as PDA users swap data with their PCs. "Smartphones will be the most prevalent personal computers on the planet, ultimately able to do everything that desktop computers can do," but at times users need a bigger screen and full-size keyboard, said Palm founder Jeff Hawkins in a statement. The 2.5-pound (1.13 kilogram) Foleo stays connected to its companion smartphone through a Bluetooth wireless link and supports Internet browsing with either its own Wi-Fi card or the smartphone's radio, Palm said. Together, the wireless networks will allow users to read their e-mail and office documents, such as Word and Excel, files on a large screen instead of a cramped phone display. The Foleo PC uses the Linux OS and is designed to synchronize with both the Palm OS and the Windows Mobile version of the Treo smartphone. However, Palm hopes to sell the Foleo to users of all types of smartphones, saying it can easily link to most smartphones based on Windows Mobile and requires a modest development effort to link to smartphones using operating systems from Research in Motion, Apple, or Symbian. By choosing the Linux OS, Palm is also encouraging software developers to create new applications for the platform. That decision could be a successful strategy, one analyst said. "Using the analogy of the OS as plumbing for the device, with Linux, all the plumbing is already developed, so it's easy to layer your own application on top of it," said Todd Kort, an analyst with Gartner. One drawback might be the proliferation of 10 or 20 different types of Linux flavors in the market, but several consortiums are tackling that problem by trying to define software standards, Kort said. Palm will also win some marketing buzz by being one of the first vendors to bring a Linux-based handheld PC to the U.S. Motorola and other vendors sell some comparable products in China and Japan but have not yet brought them to the U.S., Kort said. Palm will sell the Foleo in the U.S. this summer for $499 after an introductory $100 rebate.
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Palm CEO Ed Colligan made the right decision to dump the Foleo. But how will Jeff Hawkins and Palm bounce back from the admission that they badly misjudged the market for a weak laptop?
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Blog: Jeff Hawkins unveils Palm's latest at D5.