When Mike Violano looks at the list of recent best-selling eBooks, he hopes he sees a trend.Instead of a litany of science fiction and high-tech how-to manuals, the list of top 10 June eBooks looks very much like a traditional print bestseller list, with...
Verizon Wireless began offering PalmOne Inc.'s Treo 600 smart phone earlier this week to its business users, PalmOne confirmed.The device will eventually be offered through Verizon's consumer-user channel as well, said Jimmy Johnson, a PalmOne spokesman. Johnson declined to disclose specific pricing or product...
MILPITAS, Calif.-PalmOne Inc. announced Handspring Inc. alumnus Ed Colligan will serve as the company's new president. Colligan was formerly PalmOne's senior vice president and general manager of its Wireless Business Unit and was president and chief operating officer of Handspring before PalmOne acquired the...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-A Sidekick device fan has set up an online petition asking Sidekick vendor T-Mobile USA Inc. and creator Danger Inc. to offer synchronization technology to Sidekick users.Sidekick user Levi Wallach launched the online petition in an attempt to urge T-Mobile and Danger to...
A Sidekick device fan has set up an online petition asking Sidekick vendor T-Mobile USA Inc. and creator Danger Inc. to offer synchronization technology to Sidekick users.Sidekick user Levi Wallach launched the online petition in an attempt to urge T-Mobile and Danger to introduce...
Mobile-phone enthusiasts the world over witnessed the release of several new devices and gadgets, including one phone that actually takes a step back from the technological cutting edge.Sprint announced it will sell a version of its PalmOne Inc. Treo 600 smart phone that does...
Paul Neilson, senior vice president of technology services for Monster Worldwide, doesn't really care about latency statistics for push-to-talk services, kilobit-per-second measurements of high-speed wireless networks or processor specifications for advanced smart phones. The single most important factor in Neilson's corporate wireless decision-making process...
New research shows the worldwide smart-phone market continues to grow, while sales of handheld computers decline, but that regional differences make for a jumbled marketplace."These regional differences can have quite profound effects on future global market progression," said Chris Jones, director and senior analyst...
Sendia Corp. has built a business model around bringing existing wireless enterprise applications to market."We're not an application developer ourselves," explained Alex Klyce, Sendia's executive vice president. Rather, "we extend applications that already exist out to the marketplace." The company's official launch came last...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-In an attempt to make it easier and more cost effective for financial institutions to provide banking services to small and independent business owners, Sprint Corp. launched its Sprint Mobile Loan Officer, which the company said would allow bank employees to process...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-In an attempt to make it easier and more cost effective for financial institutions to provide banking services to small and independent business owners, Sprint Corp. launched its Sprint Mobile Loan Officer, which the company said would allow bank employees to process...
Sendia Corp. has developed a business model around bringing existing wireless enterprise applications to market."We're not an application developer ourselves," explained Alex Klyce, Sendia's executive vice president. Rather, "we extend applications that already exist out to the marketplace." The company's official launch came this...
MILPITAS, Calif.-PalmOne Inc. announced the opening of a store in Philadelphia International Airport that will distribute wireless devices, including its Zire and Tungsten handhelds, Treo smart phones and accessories.PalmOne has 10 other stores, located in airports and shopping malls in California, Maryland, Massachusetts and...
New research shows the market for personal digital assistants continues to decline, with shipments dropping 33.1 percent sequentially to 2.2 million units in the first quarter, according to research firm IDC."Despite increasingly powerful handheld devices reaching market, the consumer uptake of entry-level devices available...
New research shows the market for personal digital assistants continues to decline, with shipments dropping 33.1 percent sequentially to 2.2 million units in the first quarter, according to research and consulting firm IDC."Despite increasingly powerful handheld devices reaching market, the consumer uptake of entry-level...
READING, United Kingdom-New research shows Research In Motion, Symbian and Microsoft Corp. scoring gains in the Europe, Middle East and Africa market for advanced wireless devices, while Nokia Corp. and PalmOne Inc. failed to show increases.According to research and consulting firm Canalys, the overall...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Operating system company PalmSource Inc. said its 3 million share offering will be priced at about $18 per share. The company's stock was up slightly after the news to about $19.28 per share.PalmSource, recently separated from hardware business PalmOne Inc., sells operating systems...
MILPITAS, Calif.-Personal digital assistant maker PalmOne Inc. released Java runtime software from IBM Corp. for its device customers. The runtime will allow Treo 600 and Tungsten users to run applications written for the Java 2 Micro Edition platform, which is widely deployed in the...
MILPITAS, Calif.-PalmOne Inc. said it had revenues of $242.5 million for the third fiscal quarter of 2004, which ended Feb. 27. The revenues represented an increase of 22.6 percent from the $197.9 million reported during the same time last year.Net loss for the quarter...
MILPITAS, Calif.-PalmOne Inc. said it had revenues of $242.5 million for the third fiscal quarter of 2004, which ended Feb. 27. The revenues represented an increase of 22.6 percent from the $197.9 million reported during the same time last year.Net loss for the quarter...
MILPITAS, Calif.-PalmOne Inc.'s shares jumped almost 15 percent in trading after Wall Street investment firm JP Morgan upgraded the company's stock from "neutral" to "overweight," citing the success of the company's Treo 600 mobile phone/personal digital assistant device.PalmOne's shares jumped by about $1.63 to...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-PalmSource Inc. officially announced its new dual-OS strategy at the company's developer conference, an effort to support both high-end smart phones as well as low-end personal digital assistants. The company also announced processor company Nvidia Corp. will join the likes of Intel...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless announced it will sell a new Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. camera phone with a unique rotating screen design for $180 with a two-year agreement. Sprint PCS sells a similar Samsung camera phone for around $200.The Samsung SPCH-a610 for Verizon features an...
STAMFORD, Conn.-Two new studies show the market for personal digital assistants continues to shrink as more and more users are enticed by smart phones."Through the end of 2004, smart phones will generally have a negative impact on the low end of the PDA market,...
