Interview: USR's Ed Colligan on the future of palmtops
News With US Robotics' Palm Computing division set to release a lower-cost, lower memory version of its highly fashionable Pilot handheld next month, PCDN spoke to VP of marketing Ed Colligan about the Pilot the development of the palmtop market.
[August 20, 1996, 18:14]
New chief exec takes the helm at Palm
News Ed Colligan will step down as Palm's chief after 16 years with the company. Colligan will take some time off, then join Elevation Partners, the private-equity firm that has a 25 percent stake in Palm.
[June 11, 2009, 11:00]
Ten reasons open-source smart phones will not win out
Blog We got Ed Colligan from Palm saying that the computer people weren't going to just step in and take this market - he is now in retirement having been replaced by ex-Apple employee Jon Rubinstein - who ironically can be described as a computer person.
[July 23, 2009, 17:32]
Handspring poised to sell PDA-phone
News Handspring Chief Operating Officer Ed Colligan told CNET News.com on Monday that the device should begin selling in the United States in January, with availability in parts of Asia beginning in January or February.
[November 13, 2001, 8:59]
Palm posts higher revenue, lower profit
News Chief executive Ed Colligan acknowledged that the average selling prices of smartphones had declined, which he said the company had anticipated, and expects to continue. Investors and analysts peppered Colligan and chief financial officer Andy...
[March 23, 2007, 9:12]
Access finalises PalmSource purchase
News In support of the transition, Palm president and chief executive Ed Colligan last week issued an open letter reiterating his company's support for its namesake operating system even as the company readies its first Windows-based Treo.
[November 15, 2005, 11:25]
New Palm Pre and Web OS - updated
Blog So here we have a slick little palm pre pebble that runs a whole new webOS built for the internet office and home age its being born at the CES with ex Apple Jon Rubenstein and chief Ed Colligan sharing the love.
[January 9, 2009, 9:03]
Palm earnings hit by Treo delay
News Smart-phone sell-through across our existing products is strong," Palm chief executive Ed Colligan said in a statement. Colligan said the "Treo 750v launch in Europe is doing quite well, and we expect international revenue [this quarter] to be...
[November 28, 2006, 8:50]
Handspring to license Qualcomm wireless standard
News Over time, all handheld computing products will become wirelessly enabled and Qualcomm's CDMA technology provides a great path for enabling these solutions," said Ed Colligan, senior vice president of marketing and sales for Handspring.
[August 9, 2000, 13:59]
Quotes of the Week, August 19-23
News USR's Ed Colligan on Pilot pricing. Colligan on USR's Kiam-like approach. "It's a tad expensive, isn't it? AST's Steve Crawley on Compaq's TFT screen system. He put it in lots of newsgroups, suggesting it was a sexy program, so many users who got...
[August 23, 1996, 14:59]
TechXNY: Trying out the Tablet PC
News Handspring chief operating pfficer Ed Colligan said recently that he had been surprised to find consumers preferred entering information via keyboard, rather than using Palm's Graffiti technology. Colligan said the company would therefore focus on...
[June 26, 2002, 14:16]
Nokia-Palm merger rumours get cool reception
News In a recent interview, Palm chief executive Ed Colligan said the company would "never say never" on making a Symbian phone but had no plans to do so in the foreseeable future. Colligan admitted, however, that European operators' fondness for...
[March 6, 2007, 8:36]
Palm launches 'European' Treo 750v
News The device has no Wi-Fi because it is still too power hungry, said Ed Colligan, president and chief executive officer of Palm. On the possibility of a version of the phone based around Palm OS, Colligan was evasive: "You may consider we will be...
[September 12, 2006, 17:25]
PalmSource pushes on with Linux plans
News In a November interview PalmOne president Ed Colligan said both Linux and Windows have their advantages, but said Linux will need plenty of development before it would be usable in PalmOne's products.
[March 10, 2005, 15:45]
Palm plans resurgence
News Palm president and chief executive Ed Colligan told investors during a conference call on Monday that Jon Rubinstein will lead the company's product development. We think this transaction will reinvigorate our management team and help us attract...
[June 5, 2007, 17:51]
A front-to-back peek at the new Palm Pre
News Palm chief executive Ed Colligan said at CES that the design of the company's new Pre was based on nature. Palm made a big splash at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, announcing its new mobile operating system, webOS, and a...
[January 9, 2009, 16:03]
Palm pulls Treo over dangerous substances
News We felt like the product was long in its lifecycle and to make that change at this point did not make sense," explained chief executive Ed Colligan, according to the IDG News Service. Palm has been forced to stop shipping its Treo 650 smartphone in...
[July 6, 2006, 17:10]
Treo gets Palm OS and fast wireless
News At the time, Palm chief executive Ed Colligan made it clear the company planned to continue releasing versions of the Treo based on Palm OS. The Palm OS is about to get into the fast lane. A little more than four months after Palm released the...
[May 11, 2006, 11:20]
What happened to Palm?
Blog But with no touch screen phone to date you wonder what's going on here is a quote from CEO Ed Colligan this Autumn: Back in the hey days of 2001 I was fascinated to use my Palm iiic and Nokia phone to download email, it worked in a clunky sort of...
[November 24, 2008, 8:18]
PalmOne launches Treo 650
News PalmOne president Ed Colligan will show off the device during a keynote speech on Monday at the CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment trade show in San Francisco. PalmOne is aiming to sharpen up its image with the launch of the Treo 650 on Monday.
[October 25, 2004, 8:25]



