PalmOne has got a lot of flak recently from the PDA nerd crowd. Everyone was hoping the T5 would have had everything the T3 plus WiFi, Palm OS 6 Cobalt, and any other bells and whistles that could be crammed in there. The T5 was a step down, they cried. It had no WiFi. It [...]
Over time, I’ve got some wacky critiques. The one I really don’t get is when someone someone expects me to answer a story question as soon as I pose it. For example, take this excerpt from the first issue of my news series, The Unification Chronicles:
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She walked over to stand next to him. “You understand [...]
Okay, since Audible is just about the worst company on the planet at letting people know that they’ve done something cool, I thought I’d point this out. I downloaded the latest version of Audible Player for PalmOS 5 recently and found a few new awesome features. I bet they were put in place for the [...]
Forbes.com: PalmOne Closes Shanghai Representative Office: “‘PalmOne’s representative office in Shanghai has been shut down,’ announced a spokesperson with Palm’s operations in China on October 25. The spokesperson confirmed that PalmOne will temporarily withdraw from the Chinese market.
Chinese manufacturers such as Lenovo, Founder, and Acer Computer also said that their cooperation with Palm had already [...]
We’ve all heard it. “The PDA is dead.” The verdict is in, and the traditional PDA market is moving to smartphones. The PDA’s reign is over.
Or is it?
I’ll be the first to admit that PDAs don’t have much viability as organizers. Smarter cell phones do an adequate job of handling calendar and contact information (sadly, [...]
Wired News: Students Fight Copyright Hoarders: “Students at a dozen colleges around the country are organizing to teach their peers about the consequences of overly broad copyright law, hoping to prevent creative freedom from being stifled.
They are forming Free Culture groups on campuses to explain copyright law to fellow students. Stressing its importance for culture [...]