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Comdex 2001: Handspring Plans Move Into Security
News Handspring co-founder Jeff Hawkins said demand for better security technology in the wireless industry is a potential business opportunity for his company. In a keynote speech at Comdex Fall 2001, Hawkins identified a number of directions in which...
[November 14, 2001, 10:28]
Putting Your Brain On A Microchip
News To Jeff Hawkins, today's projects in cognitive computing take him back to the early days of mobile computing. Hawkins also published a white paper on cognitive engineering and HTM this week. Now, cognitive computing - essentially, when computers...
[May 12, 2006, 11:35]
Meet The Ex-Palm Visionary
News Hawkins, the former Palm Computing executive and current head of Handspring, is the Linus Torvalds of the Palm community. Believing that what feels good to you will feel good to the masses may be a tad egocentric, but it seems to be working so far...
[October 22, 1999, 11:34]
Palm's Foleo Gets Cool Reception
News However, the Foleo uses an under-powered processor that isn't really suited for video, Hawkins admitted. Company founder Jeff Hawkins unveiled the Foleo device at the D: All Things Digital conference on Wednesday.
[May 31, 2007, 10:16]
Handspring's Explanation Adds To Visor Confusion
News We are very excited about the Treo communicator and are investing heavily in future communicator products," Hawkins wrote. Most ambiguously, Hawkins gives the impression that the Visor organiser line will remain static until it is phased out.
[January 21, 2002, 14:00]
Thinking Outside The Box About The Brain
News And as if it weren't enough to be designing future handheld and phone devices at PalmOne while running a research institute, Hawkins is now debating whether he wants to head a start-up devoted to creating such intelligent machines.
[October 28, 2004, 14:14]
3.4GHz Broadband Ready For Action
News UK Broadband did announce on Wednesday the appointment of Keith Hawkins as its senior vice president of sales and marketing. Hawkins is a veteran of the UK telecoms market. I'm pleased to be joining this great team at a very exciting time," said...
[March 24, 2004, 15:35]
Palm Buys Handspring, Spins Off PalmSource
News Hawkins and Dubinsky will become part of the new management of the combined company and are expected to help lead the company toward its new goals. Handspring founders Jeff Hawkins -- who invented the first Palm handheld -- and former chief...
[June 4, 2003, 12:30]
Comment: Gizmos Diverging Not Merging
News People can't stand complexity in their life," said Handspring Inc.chairman Jeff Hawkins, who knows a thing or two about the virtues of simplicity. Hawkins is the inventor of the operating system at the heart of 3Com's wildly popular PalmPilot.
[March 25, 1999, 7:50]
Palm Plans Resurgence
News McNamee said he believes Rubinstein's strong execution history will fit well with Palm's founder Jeff Hawkins. We are intensely attracted to the idea of teaming Jon with Jeff Hawkins," he said. Palm, which lost its footing in the competitive...
[June 5, 2007, 17:51]
Kessler: Palm's Biz Push Paying Off
News We are supportive of the Palm OS and we don't see any applications on the horizon that we can't do with the Palm OS," said Handspring chief product officer Jeff Hawkins. Hawkins went on to say that he believed that as the PDA market matured the...
[December 14, 2000, 9:14]
Palm Pilots Begin With Handspring
News The company, formerly known as JD Technologies, was formed by Palm Computing founders Jeff Hawkins and Donna Dubinsky, who left 3Com earlier this year. Hawkins has assumed the role of chairman of the board and chief product officer, while Dubinsky...
[November 6, 1998, 10:10]
MDK 2 Demo
Downloads Fluke Hawkins; and the six-legged, jet pack-carrying robotic dog, Max. From the creators of Baldur's Gate comes the sequel to MDK--the pioneer of stealth games. MDK became an instant classic with its offbeat humor and the ingenious Sniper Helmet...
[May 31, 2000, 3:23]
Picture This: Handspring's Visor Edge Revealed
News Chief product officer Jeff Hawkins dubbed the Visor Edge the "thinnest in the industry". We're not replacing Springboard [with the new slot], but we will support those [developers] who want to make modules that connect directly to the Visor Edge...
[March 13, 2001, 9:43]
Novell Rolls Out Toys For The (old) Boys
News Jeff Hawkins, vice president of Novell's storage business team, enthused: "Whether you are working on your office or home PC, a disconnected notebook, or even at an Internet kiosk in an airport somewhere, your files are instantly available.
[March 20, 2001, 15:21]
Mobile Computing Headed For Convergence
News Handspring chairman and chief product officer Jeff Hawkins disagreed and expressed hope that the Tablet PC would just disappear. I can't understand it," Hawkins said. Over the last two years at the annual Comdex trade show, Microsoft and a handful...
[November 19, 2001, 9:10]
The Day Ahead: Buy.com Soon To Become Sell.com
News Hawkins, 45, is currently CEO. Hawkins has been CEO since March 1999 and became chairman in September. Hawkins used to work for Ingram Micro, one of Buy.com's largest distributors. The company has 1.9 million customers, 4.7 unique visitors a month...
[January 31, 2000, 11:33]
Microsoft Looks To Decipher Your Scribblings
News Despite the initial popularity of Graffiti, though, Hawkins' current company, Handspring, is largely moving away from pen-based input in favor of tiny keyboards, an indication of the challenges that remain for handwriting recognition.
[September 26, 2002, 14:31]
US Report: Pilot Inventors Leave 3Com
News The New York Times reported late Monday that Jeff Hawkins, the inventor of the PalmPilot, and Donna Dubinsky, the president of Palm Computing, will start a new firm that develops handheld devices. The PalmPilot, which began shipping in 1996, holds...
[July 8, 1998, 7:28]
Palm Creators Prep Faster, Cheaper Visor
News The company -- founded by the ex-Palm Computing duo Donna Dubinsky and Jeff Hawkins -- has developed the device based around the Palm OS, version 3.1. Handspring will turn the Palm world on its ear next Tuesday when it releases Visor -- a cheaper...
[September 8, 1999, 14:44]
