Look closely – it actually took my eyes a moment to catch it because of that nifty trick your brain pulls where you can raed msot snetecnes in whcih the letetrs of the conitaend wrods have been jumlebd. The original article has been updated already, but luckily someone snagged a screenshot.
The last quarter’s financial results are in from Palm and things look grim. Everyone expected it. Palm warned us. That doesn’t take the sting out of $22 million in losses and some ugly sales numbers. The company shipped 960,000 phones last quarter, which sounds great until you see that it only sold 400,000 to consumers – 30% less than last quarter. That’s a lot of handsets to be sitting on the stock shelves.
The news almost certainly points to a buyer. Palm’s had nine months of work on WebOS to turn this ship around and it’s just not happening. The longer it lingers in a market where juggernauts like the iPhone and the Droid exist, the worse things are going to get. Palm needs someone to bail it out, the only question remaining is, who?
It could very well be RIM, though I doubt it would pull the trigger. RIM needs a more consumer-friendly platform, which WebOS would offer. There’s also someone like HP, a company that could use a cellular presence. The most likely, though, is probably Google. Google has the cashflow to throw a pile of money at Palm, dissect the company for all the good parts and people, keep development going on the stuff it likes and just scrap the rest. It also has the relationships with wireless providers to get Palm out of the mess its currently in, relying mostly on Sprint, which has its own sales issues, to keep the company alive.
Whoever it is, I’d expect serious discussions to start before the year’s end.
Source: Palm
If you’ve ever lived with or even near a green savvy individual you’ve probably had the “vampire power” speech. You may know it as something else, but vampires are hot right now, what can I say. Vampire power is the juice drawn when a device like a cell phone charger is left plugged in with no chargeable device attached. The plug still draws power, wasting energy.
AT&T has a solution for your cell phone. The AT&T Zero Charger will release later this year with the promise to eliminate that extra draw when you unplug your cellphone. Even though it’s not the first of its kind, it’s the first to be advertised by a carrier. I can’t believe it took this long. The green movement is already pissed about cellular towers and the possible danger of cell frequencies to the natural environment. You’d think carriers would have been trying to buddy up with old Mother Earth for a while now.
Source: AT&T
According to iLounge, Apple has instituted a ban against all screen protectors in its online store and retail locations. That’s screen protectors of any type, folks, whether its a film or integrated into some sort of case. I really have no clue why it would do this unless some marketing genius sad, “Hey Steve, we tout our great screens and then sell stuff to protect those screens. Isn’t that a mixed message?” Why no one smacked that guy and said, “Dumbass, those are some of our most popular accessories,” is beyond me.
It’s not that Apple is ordering case manufacturers to cease and desist. Those products simply won’t be available under an Apple roof any longer. It’s really an odd move considering the popularity of sleeves, cases, anti-glare films and the like. Obviously people will keep buying these things, they just won’t be buying them from Apple. Does that sound crazy to anyone else?
Source: iLounge
With legislation still looming I was completely unsurprised to read this story about Fusion Garage and the JooJoo tablet over at Gizmodo. Apparently this customer tried to pre-order a JooJoo and, after hearing about all the setbacks, decided to cancel his order and receive a refund. That refund was the hard part.
Fusion Garage support claims to have had some problems with refunding the buyer’s credit card through PayPal. After several emails, here’s the final request from Fusion Garage to the buyer to process the refund.
We have checked this at our end and there seems to be a problem with refunding via paypal.
To avoid any further wait time, could you send us your bank name, bank account name, bank account number, sort or swift code and your bank address.
We will have a direct transfer done to your bank account. If you could provide us the details today, we will ensure that the refund hits your bank account by friday of this week.
Please advise . Sorry for the inconvenience caused.
Best,
joojoo
Oh yeah? Fusion Garage claims everything is legit, but so does that prince of nigeria that keeps emailing me about transferring money out of the country.
Source: Gizmodo
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