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Hewlett Packard hiring for webOS

Published on: 11th January, 2011

Hewlett Packard and Palm, through their recruiters, are trying to hire many software engineers and programmers, as posts on SimplyHired, LinkedIn and Palm’s web page show. Among the positions to be filled there is one for a senior software engineer for e-mail synchronization, another one for a senior manager dedicated to information and product security, [...]

The launch of Palm Pixi 2 is scheduled for next month

Published on: 30th December, 2010

Palm is said to prepare a new smartphone that would be launched next month. The information was published by PreCentral and probably arrived from an internal group meeting with Todd Bradley from Personal Systems Group of Hewlett Packard. The device is believed to be the smallest smartphone ever made. Other rumors say that the company [...]

CEO says Palm should have led the smartphone market

Published on: 23rd November, 2010

Jon Rubinstein, Palm leader and currently HP executive, at the Web 2.0 Summit, said that his company should have been the leader of the smartphone market. Palm was among the first in the category and had established PDAs with the Palm Pilot. It entered into smartphones early with its Treo, but soon let others catch [...]

Palm team sees Mozilla hires leave after on year

Published on: 31st October, 2010

Another hit has shaken Palm’s team after the Hewlett Packard takeover, as the two key Mozilla leaders, hired a year ago, left. Ben Galbraith and Dion Almaer have quit the company in order to start their own venture. With a favorable view of the roles they had as webOS developer community directors, they were leaving [...]

Palm hunting Jaaksi from Nokia and Samsung executive for its revival

Published on: 21st October, 2010

The Palm team of Hewlett Packard has made a couple of key hires in its attempt of rekindling its smartphone plans. A source has revealed that Palm was triggering the sudden departure of Ari Jaaksi, Nokia’s MeeGo head, who would receive the position of senior vice president of webOS engineering. He is expected to start [...]

SFR unwillingly confirms Palm Pre 2 equipped with 1GHz chip

Published on: 16th October, 2010

French carrier SFR unwillingly revealed Hewlett Packard’s smartphone plans with a page dedicated to its Palm Pre 2. According to the promo, speed is the strongest feature with a 1GHz processor (previously 500MHz) and the same 512MB of RAM as its predecessor the Pre Plus. The device will ship with webOS 2.0 and will mainly [...]

Palm designer hunted by Nokia for MeeGo

Published on: 17th September, 2010

A LinkedIn profile has confirmed that Nokia had recruited Peter Skillman from Palm to fulfil a specific role in its MeeGo operating system project. Skillman has been a Handspring and Palm design-related executive for about eleven years. He has been known as having jumped ship but there is now his own confirmation as the vice [...]

Palm to slash jobs after HP deal

Published on: 6th July, 2010

New stories from within Palm have showed that the company is dismissing employees through low-key means, as a consequence of the acquisition by HP. One of the recently laid off staffer has declared that Palm has given “welcome to HP” letters to employees it will keep. Palm said that it will make a decision concerning [...]

The iPhone aims to lead the top three in the United States

Published on: 11th June, 2010

The iPhone has slightly gained smartphone market share in the United States, according to a Nielsen study. This rise seems to be at the expense of Windows Mobile and BlackBerry phones. Data for the fourth quarter 2009 and the first quarter 2010 shows a rise of two percent, reaching 28 percent. BlackBerry has kept its [...]

Hewlett Packard is still planning webOS phones

Published on: 6th June, 2010

A brief update released by Hewlett Packard has put to rest customers’ fears that the company would drop the manufacturing of webOS-based phones. HP promised to keep making smartphones for Palm as they are part of a much larger strategy including new and unusual devices like printers and tablets. According to HP, the market includes [...]

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