It looks like a number of Palm executives are stepping down, or getting canned, after HP’s acquisition of the company back in April. Who is actually leaving, and specific reasons for leaving are unknown at this point, but as TechCrunch points out, “HP didn’t buy Palm for the management team.” Clearly, HP decided to put…
Guy who invented Palm’s webOS notifications becomes Senior User Interface Designer at Apple
Rich Dellinger, who according to his LinkedIn profile was the “User Interface Design Architect” at Palm between July 2006 and May 2010 (3 years 11 months) and whose roles included: Acted as visual designer, interaction designer, and engineer on Palm webOS. Co-developed the Application Framework used by webOS. Created the CSS structure and defined HTML…
AT&T Palm Pixi Plus Now Available for $49.99
It’s official. The AT&T Palm Pixi Plus is now available for $49.99 on contract. If signing a 2-year deal ain’t your thing (just be glad you’re not in Canada, it’d be a 3-year contract 🙂 ), you can pick one up as is, off-contract for $299. Not bad really, when you consider the Pixi Plus’…
HP: Don’t Worry, We’re Still Going to Make Smartphones, Honest
Yesterday, HP said they didn’t acquire Palm to get into the smartphone business, and they’ve issued a clarification, for those who read that as “we aren’t going to make smartphones”. When we look at the market, we see an array of interconnected devices, including tablets, printers, and of course, smartphones. We believe webOS can become…
HP Didn’t Buy Palm for their Smartphones – CEO
At the Bank of America Merrill Lynch conference, HP’s CEO Mark Hurd let slip something interesting about their acquisition of Palm: [HP won’t] spend billions of dollars trying to go into the smartphone business; that doesn’t in any way make any sense. … We didn’t buy Palm to be in the smartphone business. And I…
HP cuts 9,000 jobs, restructures with mobile in mind
These are the stories I hate to write about but Hewlett-Packard is cutting roughly 3% of its global workforce, which should result in about 9,000 people losing their jobs. According to the Associated Press, “the job cuts will result from productivity gains and automation in the data centers, which are clusters of computers that HP’s…
Android nabs webOS designer Duarte
Google has nabbed a key employee away from Palm and the hiring of Matias Duarte could lead to Android having a better user interface in the future. Duarte was the senior director of human interface and user experience at Palm and he was the chief architect in charge of the UI for webOS. You can…
Palm Hosting San Francisco PDK Party During WWDC 2010
One has to at the very least give Palm credit for the timing on this. Palm has posted (via the Developer Center) that they will host a ‘San Francisco PDK Party’ on June 9th from 6PM to 9PM: Palm and Appcelerator invite you to a co-hosted night of networking. Enjoy hot food and cold drinks…
Bell Gives Palm and webOS an Open-Handed Slap to the Face
Palm and webOS fans, take note. Bell is giving you a stern slap in the face with this one. At least that’s how I interpret it. The good folks at Bell offer a wide variety of smartphones, including the iPhone and many popular BlackBerry and Android-powered devices. They also have the webOS toting Palm Pre…
Palm Pixi Plus and Pre Plus Coming to O2 UK May 28
Those who have been waiting for new webOS phones in the UK won’t have to wait much longer; the Palm Pixi Plus and Pre Plus (which just found its way to AT&T) will be available on O2 as of May 28. The Palm Pre Plus updates the original webOS smartphone with 16 GB of internal…