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John Rubinstein leaves HP

Jatinder Singh — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:21:59 +0000

John Rubinstein has reportedly left HP. The Palm chief boarded HP when HP purchased Palm in July 2010. Rubinstein said that he had intended moving on since before the launch of the TouchPad, but that he was asked to stick around and help them with the webOS transition. He had told the following to All [...] Related posts:

OLED density race goes on – now at 4.7 micrometres

Tam Hanna, Site Founder — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:32:43 +0000

In the good old days of the Palm OS, the main issue faced by Palm was the odd resultion: a base resolution of 160×160 made scaling to more “common” resolutions was difficult. Apple has had a similar problem with its 480×320 resolution, but managed to follow it up. Samsung is now at 800×480, and the [...] Related posts:

Aceeca ships RFID Scanner, adds Satellite Forms support

Tam Hanna, Site Founder — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:36:25 +0000

When it comes to new Garnet OS hardware, Aceeca is the company to go to. After having shipped the fascinating PDA32, they now ship an RFID module for their MEZ1500 RDA handheld. Aceeca has now informed us about the following: In our last newsletter we let all our customers know that we are now shipping [...] Related posts:

Satellite Forms now supports the new Aceeca RFID Handheld

Jatinder Singh — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:36:40 +0000

For those of you that do not know, Aceeca is a company that not only makes wonderful handhelds that are used across the globe for a variety of purposes, but it is one the few companies that are still keeping the Palm and the Windows CE platforms alive. Since Aceeca was shipping out evaluation units [...] Related posts:

Market For Mobile Healthcare Applications Will Grow To US$ 1.3 billion in 2012

Jatinder Singh — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:19:58 +0000

No one can arguably deny the tight integration promises smartphones and mHealth apps make. While in 2011, the health app market grew significantly, it is expected to almost double in 2012. According to a report released by research2guidance The smartphone application market for mobile healthcare will reach US$ 1.3 billion in 2012 – up from [...] Related posts:

Nokia: delusion, Android and China style

Tam Hanna, Site Founder — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:27:38 +0000

An article from Forbes – inaccurately titled How China Ate Android – is currently making circles all over Nokia employee’s Twitter streams. It contains the following passage, which is highlighted by the Nokia folks: How is it possible the mid-tier Android vendors cannot eke out revenue growth with that kind of global Android unit explosion [...] Related posts:

CyanogenMod 9 Alpha 0 brings Android 4.0 in to TouchPad, users swoon in hope

Jatinder Singh — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:59:34 +0000

The Cyanogen Mod, which liberated most of the smartphone world from it’s woes, had made a debut entry on the TouchPad. You read it correct ladies and gentlemen, CyanogenMod 9 Alpha 0. If you thought CyanogenMod 7 was great, this alpha is *two* CyanogenMods better. That’s right, introducing CyanogenMod 9 for Touchpad, Alpha 0! That’s [...] Related posts:

HP appoints Bill Veghte as new Chief Strategy Officer

Jatinder Singh — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:32:18 +0000

Meg Whitmen et al have decided to fill in the vacant spot of the Chief Strategy Officer at HP. This spot was previously held by Shane Robison, who took retirement. In addition to being CSO, Veghte will also be heading HP’s Cloud and webOS open source programs. According to the press release by HP, HP [...] Related posts:

mHealth applications market reached $US 718 million in 2011

Jatinder Singh — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:43:43 +0000

mHealth applications are proving to be a boon for patients and doctors alike. With smartphones coming to “everyman’s reach”, mHealth apps have seen a spurt in growth. Research2Guidance, the ever number crunching firm, has released a report which gives an insight into the mHealth app market. 2011 was the first year of substantial business in [...] Related posts:

We’ve been hacked – but are alive

Tam Hanna, Site Founder — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:04:09 +0000

Dear Readers, I am unhappy to inform you that we have had a minor break-in into our systems – an attacker of unknown provinience exploited the software used to host the Tamoggemon Content Network, as to insert content to “spam” the Google search engine with ads for his own products. As this was a purely [...] Related posts: