Rubinstein and McNamee: Remaking Palm
What a wonderful curative the Palm Pre has proven to be for Palm. Especially considering that the device has yet to ship. In early January of this year, the company’s shares were trading below $3,...
View ArticleD7 Video Highlights: Jon Rubinstein of Palm and Roger McNamee of Elevation...
In one of the most anticipated sessions of D7, Jon Rubinstein and Roger McNamee of Palm Pre fame join Walt and Kara onstage to talk about the seemingly miraculous effect the hail-mary device has had on...
View ArticlePalm's New Pre Takes On iPhone
In the new era of hand-held computers — super-smart touch-screen phones that run sleek, compelling software — Apple’s iPhone has been king. A new, improved iPhone is expected to be announced on June 8....
View ArticlePre-Madonna
Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site. (Click on the image to see a...
View ArticleSmart Phones: Canaccord Advises Taking Profits
The cell phone market right now is awash in buzz, with the debut of the Palm (PALM) Pre, updated Apple (AAPL) iPhones on the way and new models coming from Research In Motion (RIMM) and others. But has...
View ArticleRIM President and Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis: The Full D7 Session Video
We kick off the week of full posts of the onstage interviews at the seventh D: All Things Digital conference with Mike Lazaridis, president and co-CEO of Research in Motion, which is best known as the...
View ArticleUpgrading to the iPhone 3G S
Here are a few questions I’ve received recently from people like you, and my answers. I have edited and restated the questions a bit, for readability. In your review of the new iPhone 3GS, you said...
View ArticlePalm: Is Demand For The Pre Slowing Down?
Since Palm (PALM) to date has refused to give any hard data on sales of the much-ballyhooed Pre smartphone, the Street has resorted to some alternative methods to get a read on how sales are going....
View ArticlePalm: Pali Sees Pre Uptick, Credits Brief Price Cut to $99
Sales of the Palm (PALM) Pre smartphone may be creeping up to 30,000 a week this week versus a prior trend of 25,000, writes Pali Capital analyst Walter Piecyk in a blog post this morning. (Free...
View ArticleA BlackBerry Priced Right For Newcomers
Web browsing and email have comfortably migrated to mobile handhelds like the iPhone, BlackBerry and Palm (PALM) Pre. But many of these gadgets still cost a lot compared with cellphones that come free...
View ArticleWindows Mobile: "Unloved, Unappreciated, and Unlikely to Encourage Any Devotion"
No wonder Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is so dismayed by the company’s Windows Mobile division: Most Windows Mobile users aren’t even aware their phones run it. In fact, according to the CFI Group,...
View ArticleNext iPhone Could Include Flash (Not the Adobe Kind)
Google’s (GOOG) Nexus One, Palm’s (PALM) Pre, and Motorola’s (MOT) Droid all ship with an LED flash beside their cameras and the next iPhone may as well. That’s the word from AppleInsider, which claims...
View ArticlePalm: Sales Well Short of Targets at Verizon, Canaccord Says
Sales of Palm (PALM) smart phones at Verizon Wireless (VZ) are coming in well short of targets, according to Canaccord Adams analyst Peter Misek. Misek told his firm sales force [Wednesday]...
View ArticlePalm: Pre Plus Price Down to $29.99 on Wal-Mart.com
The price of Palm (PALM) handsets just keeps dropping. Last time I checked, in late February, you could get yourself a Pre or Pre Plus for just $69.99 with a two-year contract through Wal-Mart (WMT)....
View ArticleVerizon Narrows Kin Target to Thrifty Young and Social Users
What does Generation Upload think of Kin, the social media phone Microsoft designed for it? Evidently not very much, because Verizon is cutting its prices barely a month after bringing it to market....
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