Articles Tagged ‘palm’
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Behold, "The Smartphone App-O-Graphic!"
BY Bryan M. Wolfe on Thu June 23rd, 2011
Each smartphone OS provider has its own set of rules and procedures to follow. Now the folks at [x] cube labs have made it easy to compare those offerings by releasing an easy-to-read chart, which we’ve presented here.
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The App Store By The Numbers
BY Scott Grizzle on Mon August 23rd, 2010
While it is obvious the App Store is a resounding success, it is interesting to see how it stacks up against other mobile app markets.
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Apple Did Try To Buy Palm
BY Alexander Vaughn on Thu July 15th, 2010
Dan Frommer from Businessinsider has discovered quite an interesting little story today. Apparently, Apple tried to buy Palm not that long ago.
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When It Comes To Wooing iOS Developers - Palm Ain't Better
BY Alexander Vaughn on Mon July 12th, 2010
It seems like offering cold hard cash to push developers to switch over to your platform is slowly becoming a common industry practice. Following this past weekend's story about Microsoft's practices to lure developers into working on their platform, we were forwarded a couple of similar emails, this time from Palm.
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Palm Guru Returns to Apple
BY Bryan M. Wolfe on Wed June 09th, 2010
A key leader at Palm is heading back to Apple following a four-year absence. Rich Dellinger, largely credited with bringing the "wow" to the webOS is Apple's new Senior IU Designer.
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Palm's CEO: "I've Never Used An iPhone"
BY Alexander Vaughn on Sat January 09th, 2010
In a discussion with All Things D’s Kara Swisher at CES, Palm's CEO, Jon Rubinstein, came out with the most utterly unbelievable line. He claims never to have even used an iPhone. Here is the actual exchange:
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The iPhone Is Still Not The Number One Smart Phone
BY Alexander Vaughn on Tue October 27th, 2009
It might come as a surprise to you but despite its top sales and its impressive market penetration the iPhone is still not leading the market when it comes to Smart Phones. ChangeWave Research made
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Developers: Don't Quit Your Day Job
BY Eric Norwood on Wed October 07th, 2009
We've all heard about app developers striking it rich; stories like Ge Wang and Steve Demeter's, inspiring tales of computer programmers achieving tremendous wealth overnight with something like Ocarina or Trism. Last December, I quoted Brian
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Adobe Unveils Full Flash Player For Smartphones
BY Eric Norwood on Mon October 05th, 2009
Today at Adobe MAX, Adobe's big developer conference, Research In Motion (RIM) announced that they were also working on a full version of Flash Player for the BlackBerry. RIM and Google are the latest companies
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Palm Restores iTunes Sync Despite Warnings
BY Eric Norwood on Mon October 05th, 2009
The war between Apple and Palm continues to escalate, despite the recent intervention of the USB Implementers Forum. Even though they were told, explicitly, that such action would be a violation, Palm released webOS 1.2.1
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No iTunes for Pre
BY Eric Norwood on Tue September 29th, 2009
The battle between Palm and Apple - over access to iTunes for the Pre - has been going on for some time. Apple forbids the synching of third-party devices with Apple software, and the Palm
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The Battle Between Palm And Apple Continues, iTunes 9 Kills Palm Pre Sync
BY Tyler Tschida on Thu September 10th, 2009
According to PreCentral, the newly launched iTunes 9 once again brought upon the death of media syncing for the Palm Pre. The big question on everybody's mind: does it break Palm Pre Sync? Pre users in
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iPhone Doubles Smartphone Marketshare
BY Tyler Tschida on Wed May 20th, 2009
Smartphone sales surpassed 36.4 million units in the first quarter of 2009, a 12.7 per cent increase from the same period last year according to Gartner, and Apple was able to benefit from that by more
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Palm Issues Clarifications On McNamee Interview
BY Tyler Tschida on Wed March 11th, 2009
First off, a little background information on the whole situation. Roger McNamee is the co-founder of Elevation Partners, an investment firm that is one of Palm's largest investors. He recently sat down for an interview
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Palm Investor Says iPhone Will Lose To Pre
BY Tyler Tschida on Fri March 06th, 2009
Palm is betting the bank on the Pre, spending heavily on development costs and simply hoping it will be the iPhone killer that they think it can be. One of Palm's major investors, Roger McNamee,
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Apple Asked Google Not To Use Multi-Touch?
BY Tyler Tschida on Tue February 10th, 2009
It's nice to finally hear companies playing nice together instead of the constant legal battles and negotiations. According to an unnamed Google Android team member, Apple politely asked Google not to use multi-touch in their
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Palm Confident In Its Own Patents
BY Tyler Tschida on Fri January 23rd, 2009
The Palm Pre hasn't even been released yet but that hasn't stopped anyone from pointing fingers. The Pre resembles the iPhone not only in its physical design (minus the slide-down keyboard) but
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Will Apple Sue Palm?
BY Eric Norwood on Wed January 21st, 2009
In Apple's quarterly conference call, Steve's substitute Tim Cook was asked if he would sue makers of the Palm Pre for lifting the multitouch technology that Apple developed. PC Mag reports: "I don't
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