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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...

Tags: noise, browsing, developers, windows mobile

11 July 2008, 10:01

News.blog: Opera Mini 4.1 released

News As a refresher, Opera Mini 4.1 works well on most Java handsets, including BlackBerry, and on Palm phones running a Java environment. On Tuesday, Opera sewed up a short beta run of Opera Mini 4.1. After a mere month and a half, the Norwegian...

Tags: beta, java, phones, mini

14 May 2008, 9:56

Mozilla to expand Thunderbird

News Microsoft welcomed cooperation with Mozilla to make Thunderbird dovetail with Exchange, as Motorola, Palm, Nokia, Symbian, Mozilla wants to reproduce the Firefox Web browser's success with Thunderbird, its open-source email software.

Tags: mozilla, communications, open source, staff

18 September 2007, 10:44

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

Facebook apps: this month's must-have

News It's similar, Freitas said, to his earlier experiences developing an email application called ThinAir for the Palm 7 platform several years ago. His Web endeavour hadn't even gone live yet, but he knew he wanted -- even needed -- to be able to...

18 June 2007, 10:42

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 Palm is developing a Linux-based operating system for its handheld devices, the company's chief executive, Ed Colligan, revealed on Tuesday. Colligan said the new operating system -- which has been in development for a "number of years" and is now...

12 April 2007, 9:59

Dell to make smart phones?

News Wireless market analyst Jack Gold, of J Gold Associates, also suggested that this might best be achieved by buying an "established player" such as Palm and jettisoning "the non-strategic components of Palm's business".

1 March 2007, 10:43

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

News.blog: iPhone squashes widescreen

News This ratio is most commonly used in photographs, but it is also used in many PDAs, such as the Palm TX. Add one more reason to doubt the iPhone hype: it appears that Apple's uberdevice utilises an unusual 1.5:1 aspect ratio.

17 January 2007, 10:48

The iPhone: more questions than answers

News ThinkPad laptops announced a year ago use it; so does a Palm Treo 750 announced this week. But sometimes, beauty is just skin deep. Tuesday's introduction of the iPhone at Macworld was long on glitz, but short on details.

11 January 2007, 11:21

Photos: Sling shows off at CES

News Sling Media has added Palm Treo support to its mobile player lineup. 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.

11 January 2007, 11:05

Apple finally answers call for iPhone

News We are focused on the 'pro-sumer' and business customer, where email, Microsoft Outlook and easy text entry for messaging and Web navigation is required," said Palm spokeswoman Marlene Somsak. A Palm spokeswoman said the iPhone appeared to be...

10 January 2007, 10:27

The techno-sexual dating game

News Palm TX. He's set up his home media centre so he can control his music streaming with a Palm TX. MacBook Pro. Slingbox. WordPress. TrueCrypt. Squeezebox. To many, those are yawn-inducing tech terms. But to people like Eric Jordan, they're sexy talk.

5 December 2006, 10:06

OS is key to smart phone choice

News Palm remains the number one platform among US smart phone owners, according to IDC. Palm is not only the most favoured operating system for smart phones in the US, it's also the most favoured device brand.

29 November 2006, 9:35