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Ruby: Droid Beat Us to the Punch
One of today's most hotly-discussed topics in the Palm blogosphere focuses around some scintillating comments made by Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein during the Q3 2010 earnings call. In particular, Rubinstein indicated that the Pre Plus' lackluster performance on Verizon was due to unfortunate timing and that the Pre Plus...
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Palm Reports Q3 FY 2010 Results
Palm, Inc. today reported that total revenues on a GAAP basis in the third quarter of fiscal year 2010, ended Feb. 26, 2010, were $349.9 million. Gross profit and gross margin on a GAAP basis were $47.0 million and 13.4 percent, respectively. In accordance with two recently released accounting...
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Report Claims AT&T webOS Launch Possibly Delayed
Barron's Tech Trader Daily columnist Eric Savitz has written a new post entitled "Palm: Canaccord Cuts Ests Again; Says AT&T Launch Delayed". The piece by Mr. Savitz brings to light a number of issues with the long rumored...
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Former Exec Calls PalmSource a 'Huge Strategic Error'
A recently distributed AP article about the latest sales woes at Palm Inc. reaches into the timelines of Palm Inc's not too distant past and pulls out some interesting disclosures and quotes. While the article focuses on the present situation Palm Inc. finds itself in, the author peppers...
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Overclocked Palm Pre Demo'd
A couple of webOS hackers have released some preliminary details about a new processor overclocking method for the Palm Pre. The modification boosts the Palm Pre's processor up to 800 Mhz (from the default 600 Mhz), which results in a dramatic difference in...
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Developing a webOS Game with Canvas
Palm's developer center has posted a nice tutorial on developing a game for webOS. The detailed tutorial focuses on using the HTML5 Canvas element for most of the graphics and animation.
The tutorial walks through all the steps in planning and...
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Palm Offers Discounted Developer Phones
Palm Inc. has reintroduced its developer purchase program. The program offers developers a small discount on certain webOS phones when purchased directly from Palm.
The developer purchase program gives registered Palm developers in the U.S. and Canada a 20% discount on the...
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Deep Palm Pre Plus Discounts at Walmart
Walmart has dramatically lowered its price on a new Palm Pre Plus this week. Online bargain hunters can now find the updated version of the Palm Pre on Verizon for $29.99 after the usual rebates and contract commitments.
Walmart.com started offering the...
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comScore Tallies Jan US Mobile Market Share Numbers
comScore, Inc. has released its latest data from the comScore MobiLens service, reporting key trends in the U.S. mobile phone industry during the three month period between October 2009 and January 2010. The report ranked the leading mobile original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and smartphone operating system (OS) platforms...
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webOS PDK Beta Now Available
 Palm, Inc. has announced that a public beta version of the Palm webOS Plug-in Development Kit (PDK) is now available at the Palm Developer Center. Palm is demonstrating new games from early PDK developers in its booth at GDC (No. 2016).
The PDK complements the...
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