Palm just announced it’s results for Q1 with $2.8m profit on $68m revenue.
They sold 823,000 devices but no word on the product mix of those sales.
CIO has got a great set of articles about the history of Palm – from the very early days to the latest iteration of the Palm Pre.
It takes me back looking at some of these devices as I owned the large majority of them!
I still believe the Windows Mobile Palm Treo 750v had the best keyboard of any Windows Mobile device. The Palm 5 was also one of my favourite devices too!
It’s a fascinating look back!
You can read it HERE
The initial release of the Palm Pre caused lots of confusion for Business users as it claimed to have lots of Exchange Activesync support however it didn’t implement (m)any of the IT security policies and was even blocked from accessing Exchange because of this.
Palm has just released an update to the WebOS to resolve some of this. The latest relase brings several additions to the support for Exchange ActiveSync (EAS), including remote wipe, PIN/password requirements, inactivity timeout, improved certificate handling, and more.
You can get more details HERE
After Elevation Partners invested in Palm and brought in John Rubenstein from Apple it was only a matter of time before this happened. It is still a shock though to see Ed Colligan move on after more than 16 years at Palm.
They now have ‘their’ guy at the helm.
You can read more HERE