Not a good Friday on Wall Street, but then what else is new? The Dow is down 100 points, and the Nasdaq off 31 points, to 1,585 after a lousy jobs number (but not as lousy as many thought) and a seller’s run on Apple, Cisco Systems, and on semiconductor stocks. The Nasdaq Composite Index... (Read More)

After a year featuring tectonic shifts in the stock market and the economy, 2008 is set to go out with barely a tremor. A quiet Monday in the technology market, with the big news that palm looks like it’s going to get its own version of a bailout. That after Elevation Partners agrees to infuse... (Read More)

Oracle, Research and Motion and Palm are all releasing earnings statements today, and that should pick up momentum in what has been a fairly dormant technology trading week. The web site Tradingmarkts.com thinks the earnings news means opportunity in two technology-heavy exchange-traded funds... (Read More)

Device maker Palm this week placed its bet on a pair of pros. First is the Palm Treo Pro, its next-generation smartphone to rival Apple’s iPhone and RIM’s Blackberry. The other is Jon Rubinstein, the company’s executive chair hired earlier this year and now charged with the company's... (Read More)

Among the obstacles to building mobile software is gaining access to the devices for testing. Removing some of those road blocks is DeviceAnywhere, which today launched the Palm Virtual Developer Lab, adding the new Treo 755p, Centro and other units from Palm Inc. to its list of more than 1,000... (Read More)

Last Tuesday, Palm announced that they're developing a new operating system. Not surprising, especially since the current one that they've got needs a revamp. The huge news here is that this new operating system is going to use the Linux kernel as the base of the operating system, freeing them from... (Read More)