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Real problems for Palm, Rubinstein risks to lose his position

Published on: 30th April, 2010

According to rumors, Palm is suffering a major corporate change and this could impact on Jon Rubinstein’s CEO position. The new structure of the company and other leaves as well have not been mentioned by the TechCrunch. This move would be a reaction to the dropping smartphone sales. Palm’s officials have not commented these aspects. [...]

GSM SIM unlock for the Palm Pre

Published on: 24th April, 2010

The Palm Pre gets an unofficial SIM unlock developed by a member of the PreCentral forum. The unlock is now on sale and is priced at the equivalent of $38, but other purchasing options are also available. It is permanent and is not affected by webOS software updates. It consists in the removal of network [...]

Palm CEO would have preferred a shorter deal with Sprint

Published on: 20th April, 2010

Jon Rubinstein, current Palm CEO and Apple veteran, has declared he would have wanted a deal with Sprint, but a shorter one, in an interview with Fortune. This is a change versus the initial strategy. Sprint has established an exclusive agreement regarding the distribution of the Pre phone. Rubinstein said that Sprint would want an [...]

HTC – potential buyout of Palm?

Published on: 20th April, 2010

Palm’s share had a spike on Friday after a Taiwan rumour of HTC potentially buying the American company. The CEO Peter Chou is believed to have been involved in deep talks for the buyout and has also been seen spending five days in his native Taiwan. This move would be perfectly possible viewing Palm’s financial [...]

Rumours about Lenovo taking over Palm cause a stock rush

Published on: 13th April, 2010

Some recently launched speculations about Lenovo taking over Palm, which has suffered lower sales than previously projected and therefore poor quarter earnings, have triggered a stock rush a few days ago. Stock prices for Palm have consequently dropped and, for this reason, the company is more appealing to a takeover by other companies. The same [...]

The market for smartphone apps could grow by eight times in three years

Published on: 9th March, 2010

According to a recent research2guidance estimate, in the next three years, the smartphone applications market could grow by more than eight times. Last year’s revenue has reached about $1.94 billion; by 2013, the market could grow over 807 percent, to almost $15.65 billion. The prediction has been based on a major push into smartphones around [...]

Palm has cut guidance due to unexpected slow sales

Published on: 2nd March, 2010

Palm has cut its guidance for the current quarter and expects to have between $285 million and $310 million in revenue. The company directly incriminates the “slower than expected” take up of the Pixi, the Pre and their Plus equivalents. It is also a fact that carriers have ordered fewer devices and occasionally delayed receiving [...]

Palm expected to ship about 1 million phones this quarter

Published on: 17th February, 2010

Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu estimates that Palm will ship around 1 million webOS phones this quarter. Industry sources make the expert believe Palm will see a sudden rush until February thanks to the Pixi Plus and Pre Plus and will ship much more than the 780,000 devices shipped in the earlier period. Verizon alone [...]

Palm webOS handsets in Europe with paid applications

Published on: 12th January, 2010

Palm has announced its plans of offering paid applications for its webOS mobile platform starting with March this year. The company has referred to its successful program in the United States, which resulted in a total of 600 applications within a two-month interval. The Palm Pre handset that was the beneficiary of these applications is [...]

Verizon – 400,000 Palm devices ordered?

Published on: 12th January, 2010

An unnamed source has revealed to the Boy Genius Report that Verizon Wireless had allegedly placed an order for 400,000 Palm handsets. The order, according to the cited source, would be split between two devices, 200,000 Pre and 200,000 Pixi devices. A report says Palm has shipped 600,000 Pixi devices during the last quarter, but [...]

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