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Palm: The End of a Long and Troubled Road
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Palm: The End of a Long and Troubled Road

I was delighted back in the spring of 2010 when Hewlett-Packard announced it was buying Palm. I’ve been a fan of Palm for 15 years, but throughout its history, the company has always been hamstrung by a lack of adequate financial resources. With mighty HP behind it,  Palm could finally reach its destiny. I couldn’t [...]

Published by on December 9, 2011 2:30 pm
Open Source webOS: A Nice Gesture, but a Sad End
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Open Source webOS: A Nice Gesture, but a Sad End

In the end, Hewlett-Packard could neither use webOS to gain a foothold in the smartphone and tablet market, nor could it sell the operating system it acquired as part of the $1.2 billion purchase of Palm last year. So it is giving it away, releasing the code and the application framework under an open source [...]

Published by on December 9, 2011 10:32 am
How Will HP Hold webOS Talent
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How Will HP Hold webOS Talent

Joshua Topolsky at This IsMyNext has details on an all-hands meeting at which Stephen DeWitt, head of HP’s webOS business unit, declared that “we are not walking away from webOS” and promised an outline for the future within a couple of weeks. In an earlier post, I outlined some of the difficulties that any webOS [...]

Published by on August 18, 2011 3:36 pm
HP’s TouchPad-Can it compete with Apple’s iPad and Android Tablets?
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HP’s TouchPad-Can it compete with Apple’s iPad and Android Tablets?

Over the last few weeks I have spent a lot of time testing out two new tablets that are now on the market. The first is the Samsung 10.1” Galaxy Tab and the second is the new Palm TouchPad. Up until these two tablets came out it was clear to me that Apple pretty much [...]

Published by on June 29, 2011 11:27 pm
Good Advice to Tech Leaders
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Good Advice to Tech Leaders

My Friend Louis Gray posted a great article a few weeks ago called “Tech Leaders Don’t Win By Saying They’ll Crush Somebody.” I have to say I can’t agree more and I encourage all tech leaders to read the article. All though I understand that some of these executives logic may be PR related, at [...]

Published by on June 23, 2011 5:34 pm