The Two Most Dangerous Words in Technology Marketing

"Just wait." So powerful.  So easy to say.  So appealing when your current products are behind the curve, and the press and analys...

The Part of Palm that Smartphone Companies Should be Bidding For

Anytime a CEO gets ousted in disgrace, his or her pet projects are vulnerable to a quick trip to the gallows if they falter.  Mark Hurd was ...

Quick Thoughts on the HP Announcement

I like the products, I don't like the event. What's impressive I like the devices.  I am disappointed that the tablet doesn't ha...

Quick thoughts on Palm and HP

It could have been worse. A lot worse. Many of the companies rumored to be looking at Palm would have bought it mostly for the patents or t...

Lessons From the Fall of Palm

What went wrong? Palm is now apparently prepping itself for a remainder sale, or new sugar daddy, or some other sort of deal that will chang...

The Palm Pre: Think Similar

Palm died. Palm OS died. Get over it. Now let's talk about this new company, and product, that happens to be named Palm. I don't ...

App stores and APIs: It's the ecosystem, stupid

If you make a web application or mobile platform, one of the trendiest things you can do is add APIs and a software marketplace to it so dev...

Palm OS on Nokia: Strategy or tactic?

I was stunned today when I saw the press release from Access Company saying that they're giving away a beta version of the Garnet emulat...

Google, the OS company

The bottom line: Google is now an OS company. The fact that Google's recently-announced OS products are aimed at mobile devices and soci...