palm os

News.blog: Microsoft quiet before iPhone 3G day

News Probably the closest thing to the App Store is a third-party reseller called Handango that sells programs for Windows Mobile, as well as for Palm OS, Symbian, and Linux devices. When Apple launched its App Store on Thursday before the release of...

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11 July 2008, 10:01

Intel strives to improve Linux for gadgets

News Among the efforts are the Nokia 770 and newer N800, an AOL-Gateway Web appliance, and the Palm Foleo, which so far has had a frosty reception. The iPhone doesn't run Linux, but Intel has begun work to help improve the operating system for future...

17 July 2007, 10:44

Get set for a summer of Apple

News Still, Jobs appears to believe the iPhone's simple user interface, with its single button and multifaceted display, is a significant improvement over the Qwerty keyboards on RIM's BlackBerrys or Palm's Treo, or the numeric keypads found on other...

11 June 2007, 11:10

Palm touts new Linux-based Treos

News We have been developing a set of system software that we will roll out before the end of the year that will allow us to take the Palm OS forward and to modernise it and to upgrade that functionality and to bring the user community and developer...

12 April 2007, 9:59

Microsoft set to unveil Windows Mobile 6

News Its software is now on many of Palm's Treo devices. With its latest operating system, Microsoft is promising improved search, better security and tighter integration with Windows Live services. But the operating system isn't Vista -- it's Windows...

8 February 2007, 9:16

The iPhone: more questions than answers

News ThinkPad laptops announced a year ago use it; so does a Palm Treo 750 announced this week. How much work would it take to alter a simple game, spreadsheet or text editor for OS X to run on the iPhone?

11 January 2007, 11:21

Photos: Sling shows off at CES

News With Sling's new software, SlingPlayer Mobile for Palm OS, Treo users can take their media where they go and watch their favourite full-length TV shows on their PDA. Sling Media has added Palm Treo support to its mobile player lineup.

11 January 2007, 11:05

Apple finally answers call for iPhone

News A Palm spokeswoman said the iPhone appeared to be targeting the consumer market rather than the business market at which similar products from Palm, like the £280 Treo 680, are aimed. We are focused on the 'pro-sumer' and business customer, where...

10 January 2007, 10:27

OS is key to smart phone choice

News While not all of the four operating systems were available in all the countries surveyed, Palm was the top ranked OS in the UK, while Windows Mobile was number one in Germany and China. Palm remains the number one platform among US smart phone...

29 November 2006, 9:35

Goodbye Palm OS, hello ALP

News Future iterations of the Palm operating system (OS) will no longer bear that name. Instead -- as predicted since Palm sold its PalmSource OS division to Japanese firm Access last year -- it is now called Access Linux Platform (ALP).

13 October 2006, 10:34

Apple patent reignites iPhone rumours

News While the::unwired's Alfredo Padilla believes Apple will probably make its own operating system, he suggests it might be better to adopt the market-leading Symbian OS: "The one major area where Symbian does not do as well is in North America...

12 September 2006, 11:45

News.blog: iTunes comes to the Palm OS

News Developer Mark/Space has released its update to Mac synchronisation software, the Missing Sync for devices running on the Palm OS. It also helps Palm OS owners to do something that neither Motorola nor Apple even let you do -- sync your device with...

11 November 2005, 10:21

Palm won't abandon Palm OS, says CEO

News I'm writing to you today because I'm concerned by the number of posts I've read that suggest that Palm's support of Palm OS is either wavering or short-lived," Palm CEO Ed Colligan said in a letter to Palm developers.

9 November 2005, 9:29

Palm ditches Tungsten and Zire brands

News The new Z22 also runs on Palm OS version 5.4.9 (also known as Garnet), instead of the previous 5.2.8 version. But the company is expected to look hard at the next version of the Palm OS, which is expected to include code from the Linux kernel as...

12 October 2005, 10:19

Palm does Windows

News Palm has long said it would consider using an operating system other than the Palm OS. Palm did not discuss how it will use the Palm OS in conjunction with the new hardware it showed off on Monday. But the company has said it plans to continue...

27 September 2005, 10:28