Steve Jobs’ attack on Adobe Flash was childish. And have you noticed during iPad and iPhone presentations that Jobs conveniently includes sites with Flash components conspicuously missing? I remember the NY Times site in Mobile Safari with missing Flash elements on the right column. The Apple CEO’s mission is subtle and insidious. He has decided [...]

Perhaps the reasons behind Hewlett Packard’s $1.2 billion purchase of Palm aren’t so obvious. I’ve seen a lot of comments like “What is HP thinking?” and “There are too many smartphone platforms, already.” But I can think of two compelling reasons for HP to buy Palm. First, Palm has been in the gadget and smartphone [...]

For some reason unknown to me, I’m partial to Palm. Even though my hate list is longer than my like list. I use the Palm Centro and like it … when I’m not hating it. Anyway, I’m pretty excited about the upcoming Palm Pre. It looks like a nice smart phone experience, thanks to its [...]

At CES 2009, Palm debuted the new Palm Pre smart phone with its new webOS. Most of the reporting I’ve seen pokes fun at the existing Palm OS (and rightly so) and heralds the new operating system as something that might rival the iPhone (we’ll see). One thing that never gets mentioned is that Palm [...]