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PDA Prizefight: Palm OS 5 V Windows Mobile 2003 review
Reviews But if you put the Palm OS in the ring with Windows Mobile, which handheld operating system would survive the bout? Although there are indeed several thousand third-party programs for Microsoft's handheld OS, it's a drop in the bucket compared with...
[February 26, 2004, 11:25]
Linux Everywhere: The Penguin Goes Mobile
News Another handheld device maker attracting notice is Handspring, a licensee of Palm's OS that was started by Palm's co-founders. Today, most of the attention in the handheld world is trained on the battle between Palm -- which makes the ubiquitous...
[June 29, 2000, 14:07]
A Guide To Handheld Operating Systems review
Reviews Although it's not an inherent part of the Palm OS, DataViz's Documents To Go comes standard on nearly every Palm handheld (the sole exception being the entry-level £77 Palm Z22) -- so we'd be remiss if we didn't consider it.
[August 10, 2006, 16:20]
IBM Shrinks DB2 For Handhelds
News Windows CE is offered in several iterations for both handheld PCs and mini notebooks, and the Palm OS is geared toward handhelds. IBM's entry into the mobile and embeddable database arena will broaden choices for organisations considering...
[February 16, 1999, 14:06]
Singaporeans Tout All-in-one Operating System
News But with funding in hand, the company has firmed up deals with handheld makers and mobile operators for the commercial launch of wireless services that use the OS. A second piece of the OS runs on a handheld computer that's equipped with wireless...
[September 5, 2003, 8:40]
Smartphone Market Picks Up In Europe
News While Palm is still the leading handheld vendor, and Sony continues to post good growth rates, the sheer number of vendors using Windows CE in their devices means that Palm OS is now in third place in EMEA," said analyst Andy Buss in a statement.
[April 23, 2003, 12:58]
CE Losing Palm Arm Wrestle
News As the Palm OS continues to grow in popularity, some handheld hardware makers are abandoning rival Microsoft's Windows CE. The main attraction of the new palm-size operating system version, code-named Rapier, is supposed to be a simplified GUI that...
[November 1, 1999, 8:34]
PalmSource Unveils OS 6 Improvements
News PalmSource, the company behind the Palm OS handheld computer operating system, said on Monday it would launch its next major software upgrade on 29 December, with improved multitasking and graphics capabilities.
[September 22, 2003, 17:25]
Handspring Buy May Boost Palm Wireless Plans
News Palm is the market-share leader for handheld computers, and is concentrated on data-oriented handhelds for the consumer and enterprise markets. And don't forget that today the handheld market is dominated by consumers, and that's where Palm is strong.
[June 4, 2003, 16:24]
HP IPaq Takes Crown From Palm In Asia
News For the first time, Hewlett-Packard has ousted Palm as the number one handheld maker in Asia-Pacific market share, according to market analyst Gartner. HP commanded 16.2 percent of the handheld market in the first quarter of this year, compared...
[June 6, 2003, 8:54]
Porting DataViewer From Palm OS To Windows Mobile-Based Pocket PCs And Smartphones More Than Doubles Sales
White Papers Although Town Compass initially designed Data-Viewer for the Palm OS, the company wanted to expand its product line to accommodate additional handheld platforms such as the Microsoft Windows Mobile-based Pocket PC.
[October 7, 2007, 23:10]
PDACookbook Plus
Downloads PDACookbook is your total recipe and cookbook software for Palm OS handhelds, Pocket PC or Windows Mobile handhelds, and Windows PCs. If you have a handheld, carry your recipes, menu planner, and shopping list with you for fast and convenient...
[January 10, 2008, 12:45]
GoDB
Downloads GoDB is a multi-platform mobile application development tool for developing wireless and handheld applications. Applications developed once on the GoDB platform run on all PDA devices ranging from Pocket PC, Palm, Simputer, Laptops, Desktops, and...
[July 30, 2004, 15:16]
Roundup: Palm Shifts Focus
News Fri, 02nd Mar Hewlett-Packard mulls Linux or Palm OS for Jornada, announces a wireless handheld Tue, 27th Feb Symbian, Microsoft and even Handspring may make much of the wireless handheld, but Palm will wait and see
[March 9, 2001, 7:41]
Can Magneto Repel Microsoft's Mobile Rivals?
News He noted that Microsoft's move comes as some companies, such as Sony, have pulled out of the slow-growing handheld market. As for what's in Magneto, handheld enthusiast sites have offered some indications, including one review of a leaked version...
[May 9, 2005, 19:00]
Palm Touts Stability Of Linux-based Treos
News Palm is developing a Linux-based operating system for its handheld devices, the company's chief executive, Ed Colligan, revealed on Tuesday. Colligan added that Palm would continue to release Treos based on Microsoft's Windows Mobile platform...
[April 11, 2007, 13:35]
Microsoft Releases New Handheld OS
News Nonetheless, hardware makers, including Hewlett-Packard, Dell Computer, ViewSonic and Toshiba, are using the new OS to launch new or improved handheld devices. Aiming to play up its Windows heritage, Microsoft on Monday will unveil a new version of...
[June 23, 2003, 8:03]
Photos: Palm Centro review
Reviews Palm has fitted a QWERTY keyboard into the Centro, although it's extremely cramped: despite the keys being significantly raised, we were unable to type at anything like our optimum speed for a handheld.
[March 6, 2008, 11:13]
Palm Gets A Boost From Linux
News Microsoft has made huge strides in the two years that the Palm OS has languished, convincing even PalmSource's former partner-in-crime, Palm, to put Windows Mobile onto a Treo smartphone. More than two years have passed since PalmSource — the Palm...
[September 4, 2006, 17:35]
Microsoft Smartphone Connects Down Under
News A number of wireless devices from vendors such as Palm and Handspring use the Palm OS, while handset giants such as Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Siemens and Samsung are releasing devices based on the Symbian OS.
[June 3, 2003, 8:17]
