New chief exec takes the helm at Palm
News Palm announced on Wednesday afternoon that Jon Rubinstein will become the new chairman and chief executive of the smartphone maker. Rubinstein joined Palm as executive chairman in October 2007 and will take over as chief executive on 12 June.
[June 11, 2009, 11:00]
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. The company also said it would bring on Jon Rubinstein, who formerly ran the iPod...
[June 5, 2007, 17:51]
Private-equity firm buys into Palm
News Palm is selling a 25 percent stake to private-equity firm Elevation Partners for $325m (£163m) and is bringing in Jon Rubinstein, who formerly ran the iPod division at Apple, as executive chairman of the board.
[June 4, 2007, 17:20]
Apple adds photo capability to iPod
News The screen is capable of displaying 65,536 colours.iPod unit head Jon Rubinstein said in an interview: "Photos are a lot like music. In order to keep the iPod small, Apple needed to keep to a small screen size -- one that doesn't work for watching...
[October 27, 2004, 8:35]
Apple frees FireWire software
News They sold this code to a variety of companies," said Jon Rubinstein, Apple's senior vice president of hardware engineering. More than 50 million PCs with FireWire connections have shipped so far, Rubinstein said.
[August 8, 2002, 14:00]
Palm beats targets with help from Pre
News We're successfully ramping supply to meet demand that is strong and growing," chief executive officer Jon Rubinstein told analysts on a conference call, referring to the Pre. Rubinstein, appointed chief executive days after the Pre was launched to...
[June 26, 2009, 9:28]
Macs are not about megahertz, says Jobs
News However, to further drive home the point, Jobs brought out Apple hardware guru Jon Rubinstein to get into some of the nitty-gritty of chip design, including latencies and dependencies that can slow chips down.
[July 20, 2001, 9:22]
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saying that the computer people weren't going to just step in and take this market - he is now in retirement having been replaced by ex-Apple employee Jon Rubinstein - who ironically can be described as a computer person.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]
Sources: Apple shows off dual-G4 Mac
News During a keynote presentation at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, California, that was open only to developers, Apple executives Mitch Mandich, Phil Schiller and Jon Rubinstein showed off the symmetrical multiprocessing...
[May 17, 2000, 8:56]
Apple's head lawyer steps down
News Heinen's exit follows that of iPod division chief and longtime hardware executive Jon Rubinstein, as well as that of chief software technology officer Avie Tevanian. Apple Computer's top lawyer has left the company, in the third high-level...
[May 9, 2006, 8:40]
Palm reports loss, despite strong Pre sales
News Chief executive Jon Rubinstein said on the company's conference call that Palm plans to focus exclusively on its WebOS software. And all its future products will be WebOS-based, Rubinstein said. Sales of the Pre helped boost Palm's smartphone sales...
[September 18, 2009, 8:58]
Steve Jobs takes another dollar from Apple
News Jon Rubinstein, the iPod unit chief who is retiring this month, received $552,795 in salary and $551,239 in bonus for fiscal 2005, as compared with $485,216 in salary the prior year. Apple's chief executive, Steve Jobs, once again took home a $1...
[March 14, 2006, 8:45]
Macworld: New iMac 'less shocking' than original
News Jon Rubinstein, Apple's senior vice president of hardware engineering, said people who want expansion ports to add graphics cards or a new monitor are better suited for a Power Mac G4 tower. However, Rubinstein was worried such a door might be...
[January 9, 2002, 9:00]
Palm slims down with the Pixi smartphone
News With Palm WebOS, we're creating a new, more intuitive smartphone experience," Jon Rubinstein, Palm's chief executive officer, said in a statement. Palm, hoping to capitalise on the momentum created by the release of its Pre handset, plans to unveil...
[September 9, 2009, 12:56]
