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. Is the idea with the Access Linux Platform to bring the same sort of philosophy forward from...
[September 4, 2006, 17:35]
Palm Touts Stability Of Linux-based Treos
News Colligan added that Palm would continue to release Treos based on Microsoft's Windows Mobile platform, alongside those sporting the new Linux-based OS. The Japanese company Access, which distributes the existing Palm OS known as "Garnet", is itself...
[April 11, 2007, 13:35]
Roundup: Palm Shifts Focus
News Fri, 02nd Mar Hewlett-Packard mulls Linux or Palm OS for Jornada, announces a wireless handheld But at the same time it faces criticism over its hardware platform, which remains conservative compared with that of licensees such as Handspring and Sony.
[March 9, 2001, 7:41]
PalmOne Considers Linux
News In a perfect world, since they are really just a hardware company, they would have smartly designed products based on PalmSource's OS, Microsoft's OS and RIM's platform," said Brian Blair, analyst with San Diego-based hedge fund Dorado Capital.
[November 4, 2004, 12:48]
Symbian Rallies Developers Against Microsoft
News Fathammer, which makes a 3D engine that can be customised for use in different games, makes versions for Linux and Pocket PC as well as Symbian OS, and also fine-tunes the versions for different hardware platforms.
[April 24, 2002, 9:30]
Nokia-Palm Merger Rumours Get Cool Reception
News The company divided into two separate units: Palm for hardware, and PalmSource for the OS, the division that was later bought by Japanese Linux specialist Access, followed by a high-profile partnership between Palm and Microsoft.
[March 6, 2007, 8:36]
Licensing Issues Delay VPro Security
News In May, Intel and Red Hat said they were developing a platform for vPro virtual appliances that is based on Linux and the Xen hypervisor, and would aim to have the technology ready by 2008. The vPro brand, along with the Viiv consumer platform, was...
[August 22, 2007, 9:05]
Google Chrome (beta) review
Reviews Plans call for Mac OS X and Linux versions in the near future. Webkit is also the basis for Android, Google's mobile platform, so it seems that Google is planning to use Chrome in mobile environments.
[September 3, 2008, 9:05]
Mobile Phones To Get Palladium-style Chips
News The system is designed for an emerging generation of "open" operating systems, such as Linux, Symbian OS, Palm OS and Windows CE, which are far more complex than mobile phone makers' own proprietary software.
[May 27, 2003, 14:31]
The Reality Of Mobile Linux: Part One
News In the first of a two-part series, we looked at how Trolltech is putting Linux apps on a Windows Mobile phone, how Access plans to port thousands of Palm OS apps over to the LiMo Foundation's Linux platform, and how Azingo is running Series 60...
[February 19, 2008, 11:00]
Embedded Linux Developer Buys UK Companies
News Harris claimed that Linux was becoming "the platform of choice in place of outdated, limited-function [real-time operating systems]" in fields including handsets, telecoms infrastructure and connected consumer devices, and suggested that the...
[April 25, 2007, 13:05]
More Heavyweights Join Mobile Linux Group
News That strategy dates back six years to the release of its first Windows Mobile SPV handset, but the new programme now also takes in the Series 60 platform and the Access Linux Platform (ALP). The operator Orange is to launch a "fully open, Linux...
[February 11, 2008, 9:36]
Goodbye Palm, Hello Access Linux Platform
News Instead — as predicted since Palm sold its PalmSource OS division to Japanese firm Access last year — it is now called Access Linux Platform (ALP). Cripps also raised a concern that "we appear to be heading for a world in which there are numerous...
[October 12, 2006, 17:00]
Goodbye Palm, Hello Access Linux Platform
Talkback Your statement that "The Palm OS was even dumped by its former parent company — PDA manufacturers Palm Inc — who went instead for Microsoft's Windows Mobile system" is COMPLETELY misleading and innacurate.
[October 16, 2006, 16:46]
