Two very different tales are circulating about Palm Inc. and its new Treo Pro smart phone these days. One story, from Palm and some analysts, is that the new Treo Pro's unlocked feature offers a cost-effective way for international business travelers to dramatically lower roaming costs. Travelers can insert a SIM card into the Pro from the carrier in the country they're in, potentially cutting those costs by 90%, Palm officials said. [ To learn about increasing competition in the mobile 2.0 realm, read Get ready for next-gen mobile . Or, read about the latest on mobile developments with InfoWorld's Mobile Report newsletter . ] The other story, from a different group of analysts in recent weeks, is that Palm had to unlock the phone because it could not find a carrier willing to sell it. One analyst on Friday went further, saying that the inability to find a carrier to sell the Treo Pro is a sign that the troubled Palm is facing its ultimate ...
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Shares of Palm Inc tumbled on Wednesday after an analyst downgraded the stock and questioned whether the smartphone maker will need to raise additional capital to pull off its turnaround plan.
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> It has been too long. Does Verizon have any plans to release the Treo
> 800w or Treo Pro anytime before my Treo 700w falls apart?
Palm’s current offerings are usually as stodgy and dated by tech reviewers.
Palm hasn’t kept pace with the other companies in new product
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Nokia's E63 smartphone, announced Wednesday, will cost €199 ($250) before any subsidies -- a price that puts the phone maker ahead in a burgeoning price war and which one analyst described as "eye-popping." The E63 is a qwerty messaging device, with a 2.36-inch display, a 2-megapixel camera and two customizable home screen views for both business and personal use. Nokia promises easy e-mail setup and users can surf the Internet using a WLAN. [ Get the latest on mobi... more
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Virgin Mobile USA was one of the few outfits out there who managed to post a Q3 net profit, but even that couldn’t help it avoid the unfortunate delivery of a non-compliance letter from the New York Stock Exchange. Just a few days before it slashed ten percent…
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Virgin Mobile USA was one of the few outfits out there who managed to post a Q3 net profit , but even that couldn’t help it avoid the unfortunate delivery of a non-compliance letter from the New York Stock Exchange. Just a few days before it slashed ten percent of its workforce, the company was notified by the NYSE that it was "not in compliance with certain listing criteria." More specifically, it’s considered "below the ap... more
In a tough economy, Americans are more likely to cut back on entertainment, food and clothing before they change the way they use their cell phones, according to a recent Virgin Mobile USA customer poll.... more
To meet the growing storage needs of laptop users, Samsung Electronics on Tuesday introduced a 500GB hard drive that could provide a notebook PC with as much as 1TB of storage. The Spinpoint M6, a 2.5-inch hard drive, fits into the chassis of commercial and multimedia notebooks, said Andy Higginbotham, director of hard drive sales at Samsung Semiconductor. Two drives can be combined for 1TB of storage, he said. The company was able to fit three 167GB platters in a small frame to achieve... more
IBM again touted agile software development methods on Tuesday at the SD West Conference 2008 in Santa Clara, Calif., with an official saying the company itself probably has one of the world’s largest adoptions of agile. In a keynote presentation and in correspondence afterward, IBM’s Per Kroll, chief architect for IBM Rational Expertise Development & Innovation, cited the company’s proliferation of agile practices among some of its approximately 35,000 developers. ... more
Samsung Electronics could deliver 256GB solid-state drives next year, quadrupling the capacity of SSDs it is currently shipping to PC makers, the company said. Samsung recently plugged 64GB SSDs into Lenovo's ThinkPad X300 laptops, which only have SSD storage built in, said Jim Elliott, vice president of memory marketing for Samsung Semiconductor. Samsung is due to ship samples of 128GB SSDs in the middle of this year. The 128GB samples will only reach hardware makers, and Samsung w... more
If you think the iPhone's touch screen is cool, imagine a device that actually sees, reflects, and responds to your fingers touching the back of the device. A prototype of that capability was among many that Microsoft Research showed off at TechFest, Microsoft’s annual display of research projects at the company. LucidTouch isn't very practical in its current form . It's a large handheld computer with a small video camera attached on an arm about a foot's length ... more
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