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Palm Appoints Jon Rubenstein to CEO Job

Palm Appoints Jon Rubenstein to CEO Job

Palm just rolled out its Palm pre smartphone on Sprint, in a high-profile move designed to put the company back at the forefront of the mobile technology industry and give the Apple iPhone a serious run for its money. Now, Palm is making another high-profile play, appointing former iPod developer Jon Rubenstein to the CEO position.

Rubenstein joined Palm from Apple in October 2007 as Executive Chairman; he’ll take over the reins from Ed Colligan on June 12. Colligan says he plans to take time off, then join Elevation Partners, a private equity firm that counts U2’s Bono as one of its high profile investors—and which, incidentally, has been one of Palm’s backers as the company tries to re-assert itself in the technology industry. Rubenstein joined Pal when Elevation put its first stake in the company.

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First Mobile Service Using Geostationary Satellite

First Mobile Service Using Geostationary Satellite

Asia Pacific Systems (AP Systems, President Jung Ki-ro) held a commencement ceremony for its geostationary satellite mobile service on April 6, in their office building at Gasan-dong, Seoul. The service is the first commercial service in Korea using a geosynchronous high earth orbit satellite.

An AP Systems’ satellite phone costs 924,000 won (US$701.30), and using 50 minutes in a month costs 80,000 won (US$60.50), which is the cheapest flat rate.

AP Systems predicts that it will earn 7.5 billion won (US$5.7 million) and collect 6,000 subscribers in Korea in its first year by providing distinguished service no matter where someone is.

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Google Co-Founder Touts White Space Plan

Google co-founder Larry Page has gone to Washington in hopes of convincing members of Congress and officials at the Federal Communications Commission to allow a new class of unlicensed, low-power wireless devices that would operate in the "white space" between allotted bands in the spectrum space soon to be vacated by analog television broadcasts. Page argues the benefits of enabling low-power devices to operated in gaps between allocated frequency bands could be enormous, creating whole new classes of short-range, high-bandwidth devices that would support a myriad of online and media-intensive applications—like streaming high-definition video to wireless devices.  Read more...

Students Slow to Embrace Campus Text Alerts

If there’s one thing generally true of students today, it’s that they’re glued to their cell phones. Whether talking with friends and family, sending and receiving messages, or checking their social networking profiles, today’s youth rarely do anything without a mobile phone close at hand. However, comparatively few students are embracing what would seem to be a welcome and important mobile service: campus safety warnings issued via text messages.  Read more...

New York Times Nixing Online Subscriptions?

New York Times Nixing Online Subscriptions?

A report in the New York Post (of all places) says the New York Times plans to stop charging Internet users $8/month to access TimesSelect, an area of its Web site which features Op-Ed pieces, columnists, and other selected content. Citing a source who claimed to have been briefed on the decision, the timin of the changeover depends largely on the technical issues involved in managing TimesSelect and transitioning that content out of its current locked garden.

TimesSelect is accessible to both subscribers to the print edition of the paper, as well as Web-only subscribers. According to recent figures, the TimesSelect online service has about 220,000 paid subscribers.

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Nintendo: 600,000 Wiis Sold in Eight Days

Nintendo: 600,000 Wiis Sold in Eight Days

The video game console wars certainly aren’t dull this year, with all the soc-called next-generation consoles now available, Microsoft looking to woo players away from the expensive (and hard-to-find) PlayStation 3, and the holiday shopping season getting into full swing. And Nintendo’s Wii is not being left out of the frenzy: according to the company, they’ve sold more than 600,000 Wii consoles in the Americas in just the system’s first eight days of availability.

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Cartoon Network, Nick to Provide VUGO Toons

Tiger Electronics today announced content deals with the Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon to bring programming to their upcoming VUGO Multimedia System. This kid friendly portable video player is due out this month.

The content deals, the three companies said, will bring Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends, Dexter’s Laboratory, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Codename: Kids Next Door, Ed, Edd n Eddy and The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy from the Cartoon Network. Nickelodeon will be providing SpongeBob SquarePants, Danny Phantom, Jimmy Neutron, Unfabulous, Romeo!, Rugrats, Rocket Power and Teenage Robot.  Read more...

Mattel Launches Personal Media Player

Arriving at retail nationwide on Oct. 17, Juice Box, a personal media player from Mattel, Inc., will feature category exclusive, full-color video content from some of today’s hottest music, television and action sports personalities; play MP3 music files; and enable viewing of digital photos.

Juice Box is the first personal media player designed to meet the lifestyle and entertainment interests of today’s tweens. One of the smallest and lightest personal media players on the market to date – easily fitting into almost any pocket – Juice Box enables tweens to play back videos in full-color and in stereo sound with headphones. Two added capabilities – built-in firmware that will play downloaded music from MP3 files and enable photo viewing through an expansion pack – make Juice Box the most versatile media player designed for young people.  Read more...

Audiovox Unveils PPC 4100 Phone

Audiovox and AT&T Wireless today officially announced the rumoured PPC 4100, a WAN handheld powered by the lengthily-named Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 2003 for Pocket PC Phone Edition platform. To be available in June 2004 and showcased for the first time today at Microsoft’s Tech Ed conference in San Diego, California, the GSM-based PPC 4100 will join Audiovox’ second-generation CDMA WAN handheld, the Audiovox PPC 5050.
 
A tri-band GSM 850/1800/1900 MHz device with GPRS capabilities, the Audiovox PPC 4100 will be available through AT&T Wireless, apparently replacing the now-discontinued Siemens SX56 – a device much similar to the PPC 4100, albeit it with poorer specifications and running the 2002 edition of the Pocket PC Phone Edition platform. Currently, AT&T Wireless offers several BlackBerry handhelds and the Treo 600 by palmOne in the WAN handheld category.  Read more...

Audiovox And AT&T Announce PocketPC Phone

Audiovox Communications Corporation and AT&T Wireless announced today the PPC 4100, an integrated wireless PDA phone featuring Windows Mobile software, will be available in June 2004and showcased for the first time today at Microsoft’s Tech Ed conference in San Diego, CA. The PPC 4100 will be available for $349 after a $50 instant rebate. The unmatched combination of power,function and form makes this competitively priced “all-in-one” device one of the best values on the market today.

The device was also named a finalist for the Best of TechEd 2004 Awards conducted by Windows & .NET Magazine and SQL Server Magazine. Winners will be announced May 26th.

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