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Palm Gets Open-source Browser
News Linux Labs has released a beta-test version of a Web browser for wireless-enabled Palm handhelds, seeking to fill a gap left by the recent closure of Digital Paths and its DPWeb mobile browser. It is designed for wireless Palms like the Palm VII...
[April 9, 2002, 14:30]
News Burst: Linux For The Palm Pilot
News Linux acolytes will for the first time be able to experience the open source joys of Linux in Palm OS compatible format thanks to Korean company, OSK. The company has released a distribution of Linux called WindStone that ports to the Palm Pilot...
[November 12, 1999, 17:12]
Palm Plans Updated PDAs And Wireless Devices
News Palm is planning two new organisers, a colour mid-range device and an improved version of its colour high-end m505, to follow up the long-expected launch of its wireless PDA, according to a source. The source, who wished to remain anonymous...
[January 24, 2002, 16:44]
PalmSource Makes Linux Acquisition
Talkback When joint palm source and linux I belive that not only developers will look forward to choose but other devices also well will adopt their system and Palm Source (system) are not attached to PalmOne (hardware) anymore.
[December 9, 2004, 10:24]
Palm To Tap Colour For Next Release
News One source familiar with the OS said Palm may be taking advantage of the full 4-bit depth of the screens in its newest devices to a provide deeper and more crisp -- almost 3-D like -- quality to the way icons are displayed.
[February 1, 2000, 8:54]
Palm Gets A Boost From Linux
News The Access Linux Platform will still be able to run Palm OS applications, but Tokyo-based Access will use an open source underpinning as its foundation. Access is betting that the Palm community could use a little push from a penguin.
[September 4, 2006, 17:35]
Palm Gets In Synch With Linux
News Alta Terra Ventures of Alberta, Canada on Wednesday released Linux synchronising software that works with Palm OS devices such as those made by Handspring, Sony, Palm itself and others. It comes with three desktop applications, jpilot, kpilot, and...
[September 27, 2001, 17:36]
Sony To Abandon PDA Market Outside Japan
News The Clie range from Sony was the only Palm OS PDA available that included support for simultaneous Bluetooth and WiFi," said the source. Sony accounts for 9 percent of the market, behind HP and Palm. The Clie PDA runs Palm OS, developed by...
[June 1, 2004, 14:45]
Linux Everywhere: The Penguin Goes Mobile
News Today, most of the attention in the handheld world is trained on the battle between Palm -- which makes the ubiquitous organiser of the same name -- and Microsoft, whose Windows CE operating system and Pocket PC device so far have been...
[June 29, 2000, 14:07]
Microsoft PocketPC By April
News The software maker hopes that consumers will find PocketPC's user interface and application software, codenamed Rapier, an easier to use successor to its Palm-size PC. It will have to be to woo customers away from Palm Computing's products, however.
[February 24, 2000, 15:38]
Google Android: Mobile Open Source Door Kicked Open
Blog Comment This is Palm approach (IBM provides the JVM for Treos). Developer will have to code all apps running on Android with C or C++ APIs using Eclipse.the SDK will be very similar to the now defund Palm Foleo or the Nokia Linux Maemo platform.
[November 6, 2007, 8:12]
Linux Carves Niche In PDA Market
News If you don't want to buy new hardware, Empower markets Linux DA software for Palm IIIx devices. Empower claims that its Linux DA system is faster and more powerful than the Palm OS, and that the device is fully compatible with Palm's hardware.
[June 11, 2002, 12:34]
Handspring Wireless Handhelds To Launch On Monday
News Since the spring, Handspring has been locked in a bruising price war with Palm amid weaker demand for handhelds that were flying off the shelves a year ago. Devices similar to the Treo, such as Kyocera's Palm OS-based Smartphone, have so far...
[October 12, 2001, 12:12]
PalmSource And Orange Team Up For Mobile Linux Standards
News PalmSource licensed its PalmOS operating system to handheld device maker Palm, but began a move to Linux by acquiring China MobileSoft. Now Palm is moving in a different direction by adding Windows-based products.
[November 14, 2005, 7:55]
Guess What? Microsoft Won
Talkback The long odds don't favor Palm Reader or Adobe. What will be the event that dooms Palm OS and cedes that arena to Windows Mobile? The long odds favor the foe of Open Source; Microsoft. How damaging it is to GNU/Linux in particular, and open source...
[August 10, 2003, 19:25]
Access Launches Mobile Linux Push
News Access, the company that supplies the mobile platform formally known as Palm OS, has released product development kits for licensees and also launched a global partner programme in an attempt to boost the growth of mobile Linux.
[February 12, 2007, 14:00]
Embedded Linux Crying Out For Standards
News Singh dismissed Palm OS and Symbian OS as "also-rans", since they are only focussing on a niche market -- handheld computers for Palm and smartphones for Symbian. The compatibility issues are directly related to Linux's open-source nature, which is...
[May 17, 2002, 9:37]
Palm Preparing To Slash Staff
News Struggling with slow sales and intense competition, handheld device maker Palm is expected to announce significant layoffs as soon as next week. Other sources said Palm executives are considering cuts of 300 to 400 workers.
[November 21, 2001, 9:13]
Palm Pours Cold Water On Fan-site Row
News Some Web site owners had seen signs that Palm would allow hobbyist sites -- an important source of grassroots support for the company -- to continue using "Palm" in their Web addresses. Palm Computing on Friday issued a formal statement attempting...
[September 28, 2001, 17:12]
Palm Investing In Handheld Content
News Palm plans to announce on Tuesday that it is taking a minority stake in a start-up that will produce software for the memory cards used in Palm and other handhelds. Palm includes on many of its handhelds an expansion slot that can use both SD and...
[October 15, 2002, 8:25]
