The appliance - scheduled for a mid-July launch in Japan - will run on the Palm operating system. Industry analysts expect Sony's adoption of the Palm operating system to be a step further in establishing an industry standard and, as such, a blow...
A Swedish software developer, Aaron Ardiri, has posted a Trojan horse virus on the Web, which he claims attacks the Palm OS. The Trojan horse - called 'The Liberty Emulator' - is designed to delete data and applications from PDAs operating on the...
Palm, like the others, realises the future lies in a converged market, but is itself adding communications functions through the sleds its handhelds slide into for recharging and synchronising, and wireless integration with other devices.
David Nagel, president and CEO of PalmSource, said it will enable carriers to feedback and influence Palm OS platform development efforts and allows operators to create a catalogue of software titles for over-the-air delivery to an increasing...
In related news, PalmSource, guardian of the Palm OS that is now selling more quickly on smart phones than traditional PDAs, introduced its updated Treo 650 to Europe. And PalmSource has let it be known its hat remains very much in the smart phone...
The sale of PalmSource may consummate the marriage of Linux and the Palm OS but it won't kill off the operating system that helped create the PDA market. The representative said Access may even revisit the Palm OS version 6, known as Cobalt, which...