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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]
Microsoft looks to decipher your scribblings
News One of the greatest commercial successes in the field has been Graffiti, a specialised sort of handwriting developed by Palm founder Jeff Hawkins. Despite the initial popularity of Graffiti, though, Hawkins' current company, Handspring, is largely...
[September 26, 2002, 14:31]
Photos: Palm Foleo review
Reviews After months of talking about a new product category for Palm, the company's cofounder, Jeff Hawkins, finally unveiled the Palm Foleo on 30 May. Jeff Hawkins and the Palm Foleo Calling smartphones the 'most prevalent personal computers on the...
[May 31, 2007, 8:53]
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]
Palm's Foleo gets cool reception
News Company founder Jeff Hawkins unveiled the Foleo device at the D: All Things Digital conference on Wednesday. Jeff Hawkins unveils the Palm Foleo at D5 However, the Foleo uses an under-powered processor that isn't really suited for video, Hawkins...
[May 31, 2007, 10:16]
Palm buys Handspring, spins off PalmSource
News Handspring founders Jeff Hawkins -- who invented the first Palm handheld -- and former chief executive Donna Dubinsky established Palm in 1992, and were the top names at the company until they left in 1998 to start Handspring.
[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]
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]
Thinking outside the box about the brain
News The institute's director, Jeff Hawkins, was interested in the brain even before he helped spawn an industry with his most famous invention, the PalmPilot. And as if it weren't enough to be designing future handheld and phone devices at PalmOne...
[October 28, 2004, 14:14]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Handspring ships one millionth Visor
News The Visor Prism and VisorPhone are signed by Handspring chief product officer Jeff Hawkins, who is often referred to as the father of the PDA for inventing the Palm Pilot in 1994. Handspring announced Wednesday it shipped its one millionth Visor PDA.
[December 7, 2000, 8:29]
Palm to unveil translucent Palm IIIe
News The new design could be an effort to steal some of the thunder from a start-up company called Hanspring, created by Palm co-founders, Donna Dubinsky and Jeff Hawkins, which is believed to be close to producing a low-cost device based largely on...
[August 3, 1999, 9:32]
Palm unveils Treo 500v
News The manufacturer cancelled its Foleo ultramobile PC before it went to market , despite Palm founder Jeff Hawkins saying it was "the best idea I've ever had", and faces continued stiff competition in the smartphone sector.
[September 14, 2007, 18:20]
Novell makes mobile play at CeBIT
News The new version of iFolder includes clients for Windows CE and Palm, so users can synchronise their iFolder to their PDA -- the answer to the big problem of people dropping their mobile devices, or having them stolen, according to Jeff Hawkins...
[March 13, 2002, 10:22]
New chief exec takes the helm at Palm
News As an early employee of Palm, Colligan left with Donna Dubinsky and Jeff Hawkins to form Handspring and returned when Palm bought Handspring in 2003. Palm announced on Wednesday afternoon that Jon Rubinstein will become the new chairman and chief...
[June 11, 2009, 11:00]
