CNet is reporting that Palm is firing an unspecified number of employees, a “small percentage of our workforce”. According to CNet the bulk of the jobs are in the US and are in the “development ranks”. This is mind boggling, at a time where companies can’t hire enough developers (because Google is like an insatiable [...]

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I was thinking some more about Palm and in particular my Treo. It’s interesting that how despite my quickly increasing dissatisfaction with my 650, there’s still nothing I’m seriously considering replacing it with. Here’s the thing, it does, in general, a mediocre job of a lot of things but it doesn’t really do anything [...]

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Thanks to Howard for pointing out that Palm had sold $325 million stake to Elevation Partners (that’s Bono’s investment company, don’tchaknow). In addition to the money they’ll get Jon Rubinstein (who was the head of the iPod division at Apple) as their executive chairman of the board. If you ask me that’s something that they [...]

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So with the big announcement of the Foleo yesterday I spent some time thinking about Palm. This is a company that I really loved and backed for years, the Treo 650 which I still use so far remains unchallenged and irreplaceable as far as I’m concerned. Sadly, the 650 seems to have been a last [...]

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Well, huh. Palm brings the world the Foleo. It seems to be a laptop. Well, a subnotebook really. A laptop that runs linux. That is “the most exciting product I have ever worked on” that Jeff Hawkins has ever worked on is laptop that runs linux.
Palm may not be aware, but there have been many [...]

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Well today’s the day, at various points two things I’ve been interested to hear will be happening at D5. First up at 11:30 PST is that Jeff Hawkins should be introducing his all singing, all dancing new product that will hopefully reverse Palm’s current fortunes. Palm says this will be a “new category of mobile [...]

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So you know I’m interested to find out what Hawkin’s has up his sleeve for the big conference. As far as I can tell, it’s the only thing standing between Palm and imminent doom. Well the staff at Brighthand has layed out their predictions for what it is.
I gotta say, I hope they’re wrong or [...]

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Wow, the official Transformers trailer is now out. I must admit that it does look pretty awesome. I really like how the transformers move and how they transform - when one of the planes transforms as it’s landing and skids down on the ground - that’s some good stuff. I still don’t love how fidgety [...]

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I was noticing something odd recently. If you read the reviews of Palm’s latest offering, the 755p, you’ll find that they are all glowing reviews. But if you read the comments on PalmInfocenter and Palm’s own blog you’ll find that there’s a lot of Palm hating going on. What’s up with that?
Here’s my thinking. Taken [...]

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UPDATE 3: Some thoughts on the disconnect between the glowing reviews of the 755p and the widespread criticism of it in the blogosphere.
UPDATE 2: A random sampling of blogs posting on the 755p shows someone on the verge of jumping the Treo ship, someone who believes the 755p was an act of desperation and someone [...]

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