Palm, Handspring Sink to All-Time Lows It's no great surprise that Palm's stock price got crushed today. It was the most active stock on NASDAQ. The analysts didn't have anything positive to say about Palm's future.
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Will Palm scrap businesses to survive? - Tech News - CNET.com This article has some pretty good analysis of Palm's situation.
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Right now the Jornada 540 has 5.87 MB of storage space occupied and 2.70 space available. The total 16 MB of RAM is split in half between storage and program memory. With Calendar, Tasks, Contacts, Inbox and Internet Explorer all running (not to mention PocketNAV and Dashboard) there is 4.78 MB of program memory in use and 2.53 MB free. Right now I have the following programs loaded:
The items in italics are on the storage card. The trick is to add the remaining applications without decreasing the internal storage space beyond the current 2.70 MB. That will be near impossible because when you install applications on a storage card it seems some files end up in the Windows folder, using internal storage.
posted by Frank McPherson 12:46 PM |
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My iPAQ Pocket PC is flipping out. That is, it has come down with the dreaded inverted image problem. In case you have had the good fortune of not having this problem, it looks as though you are looking through the screen from inside the device. Yesterday I called Compaq, and today Airborne should be delivering a box to be used for shipping the iPAQ for repair. It will probably be gone for a week, so in the mean time I need to use one of my other Pocket PCs. The problem is that neither my HP Jornada 540 or my Casio EM-500 have 32 MB of RAM, so I may be limited in loading up my full compliment of applications. Since I already carry the Jornada around with the Ministrel modem attached, I think I will just use that while the iPAQ is in for repairs. I've been keeping a 48 MB CompactFlash card in the Jornada so I will attempt to load the applications and many of my data files on to that card.
posted by Frank McPherson 12:36 PM |
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Pocket Deepsky 2000 If you are into using telescopes you might find this program useful to you. <via Pocket PC Thoughts>
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infoSync : Compaq Cannes too If you were a roaming around Cannes showing off movies on a handheld computer would you rather have a Palm Vx, and its black & green screen, or a Compaq iPAQ 3650 with its larger, color display and faster processor?
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infoSync : New Rayman screenshots Rayman is a popular game from the original Playstation, and is being developed for Pocket PCs by Ludigames. It has a target date of June 1.
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Palm halves revenue forecast, exits deal As time passes Palm looks more and more like Apple. Palm is getting crushed in the market, and today's news that their current quarter's revenues will be half of it's forcast will probably lead to a huge drop in it's stock. Further, Palm announced that they will not be acquiring Extended Systems. No doubt that is due in large part to the drop in their stock price. When Palm announced that they were acquiring Extended Systems it was hailed as important step to enabling Palm to grow their corporate market share. Without this acquisition one now has to wonder how Palm will grow the corporate market, which have identified as being vital to their business.
Will Palm still exist by this time next year, or will there be a merger of Handspring and Palm?
posted by Frank McPherson 11:47 PM |
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Wondering where to surf and sip? Check out this page for the Starbucks online with 802.11b.
posted by Frank McPherson 9:15 PM |
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TwoMobile.com - Featured: PDA integrates MP3, CCD Camera, with GSM Modules Another small name company (Internet Appliance Box Corp.) has announced plans for developing a Pocket PC. This will use a StrongArm processor and FlashROM to support both Linux and Windows CE, and it has a optional CCD camera. <.via PDA Geek >.
posted by Frank McPherson 11:10 AM |
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Photogenics for Pocket PC is a photo editor program just going into beta. You can also use this program to draw, so it might be closer to Conduit's Pocket Artist.
posted by Frank McPherson 11:00 AM |
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Dale points out today that you can track the location of the Mobile Experience Tour truck by going to the web site and clicking on the "Trace the Tour Truck in Progress...LIVE!" link.
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Handspring browses with MSN - Tech News - CNET.com It seems all of the tech journalists covering this are somewhat surprised by Handspring putting money in the coffers of a competitor. They also tend want to spin the idea that Handspring is considering a switch to Windows CE, something that I personally doubt will happen.
posted by Frank McPherson 6:03 PM |
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Compaq: Handheld Prices Steady Despite Palm Cuts In fact, Compaq actually brags about being able to raise prices while Palm and Handspring are cutting. That's not what we want to hear.
posted by Frank McPherson 6:00 PM |
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PC Magazine's Bruce Brown has a short review of the Compaq iPAQ 3150 and 3670 and the HP Jornada 525 in today's USATODAY.com.
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iPAQ Storage Brick Do you want more storage space for your iPAQ? The 1 GB IBM Microdrive just too small? How about a 20 GB or 48 GB hard drive? This page shows you how.
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Silicon Alley News: Is Vindigo's Deal with Palm a Sign? "Part of the long-term problem for Vindigo is the same headache facing many companies in these dark days for start-ups. If the Palm distribution deal is the answer, what happens when Microsoft or Compaq uses their sheer muscle to develop/acquire a similar service and bundle into their own PDAs?" Or how about this twist: Microsoft aquiring Vindigo? After all, why should Microsoft sit back and let Palm keep aquiring pieces and parts: Extended Systems, Peanut Press, etc..
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Palm m505 and Nintendo Color Gameboy This page compares the m505's screen with the Nintendo Gameboy, which apparently uses the same technology. The writer says there is no comparison, the Gameboy's is better. I dare say a comparison with a Compaq iPAQ, which also has a reflective screen, would demonstrate even further just how bad the 505's screen is.
So, in the final analysis, the only positive thing coming with the release of the M500 and M505 is expandable storage via SD/MMC. Otherwise you pretty much just have a Palm V. The clock is ticking and the cow is getting dry.
posted by Frank McPherson 9:43 AM |
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Geek.com PDA Software Review: eWallet 2.0 for Pocket PC PDA Geek reviews what is probably the most important, and most used application on my Pocket PC.
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infoSync : The Sega emulators Soon you will be able to play Sega games on your Pocket PC. If you combine all the emulators now available with the native games that have been developed, the Pocket PC is starting to become a serious gaming platform. I think Microsoft or the hardware OEMs need to really pump up this marketing angle for kids, and by all means, Compaq has got to fix the multiple-button press issue.
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infoSync : FileMaker on more platforms FileMaker maybe coming to Pocket PCs, but won't appear until 2002. It's interesting to note that they also plan on making a Filemaker for i-Mode phones.
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The folks who make the database tool called Visual CE has followed DDH Software's lead and created a library of freeware databases.
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Brighthand Editor Debbie McCormick has done a great job creating Dashboard skin from an image of my book. If you wish, you can download the skin for your use from http://home.cinci.rr.com/mcdeb/files/purchased/book.zip
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The following post moves over content I posted on Friday on my other web log.
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Lately I've been trying out new Pocket PC software. Last week I found Nyditot's Virtual Display, which is similar to Jimmy Landscape, but works on HP Jornadas in addition to other Pocket PCs, plus provides higher resolutions. I bought it at Handango and checked it out. Compressed 640x480 in landscape is readable when you crank the text in PIE to its largest setting. <via Pocket PC Thoughts>
I've never played SimCity, but soon I will be able to play it on my Pocket PC if I wish.
You can now listen to radio on your Pocket PC via streaming MP3. I just tried this with my Omnisky connection, and Omnisky is not letting me through to www.live365.com.
posted by Frank McPherson 7:04 PM |
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In today's Anchordesk David Coursey writes about the Microsoft MVP program. I'm proud to say that I've been an MVP for the last two years.
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This Computerworld article attempts to explain the differences between Palm OS and Windows CE from a more technical perspective. I think the point being made is that corporations should choose which handheld platform to use based on their needs. (Funny, where have we heard that before?) The writer points out that while the "bloat" of Windows CE is ridiculed by people who want a simple organizer, it becomes much more valuable to software developers planning on developing rich applications. This last comment coincides I think with marketing information from Europe showing that Windows CE devices are obtaining huge penatrations in the corporate space. My only nit with the article is that it seems to come up short -- it establishes a good premise, starts supporting it, and then stops.
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Amazon's Pocket PC e-Book store is now functional. Pocket PC Thoughts reports that all the books work on Pocket PCs.
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