2012
Pre to postmortem: the inside story of the death of Palm and webOS | The Verge
by night.kameIt's easy to look back at Palm's story arc from 1992 to 2012 and feel a sense of loss and sadness — this was a company that pioneered PDAs, popularized smartphones, and developed a revolutionary new platform on limited resources with an extraordinary concentration of industry talent before meeting its demise at the hands of HP.
Indeed.
2010
Hewlett-Packard (HP) rachète Palm | FrAndroid - LA communauté francophone Android
by kasi772009
jQTouch — jQuery plugin for mobile web development
by nhoizey & 12 othersMozilla coders join Palm, apparently jabbing Apple | Deep Tech - CNET News
by François Hodierne (via)Reading from a smartphone, the smart way | Monday Note
by night.kameWhy not push the idea a little further? Let’s imagine. I’m a reader of, say, The Guardian, Le Monde or the Norwegian VG. And I want to consume my online paper during my morning commute. My iPhone (or any future similar device) is set to wake up at 7h00 sharp and download my favorite web sites’ latest updates.
Ca s'appelle AvantGo, et on l'utilisait en 2000. Une bonne phrase dans l'article néanmoins :
Anytime/anywhere broadband availability exists only in Google’s imagination.
2008
3G iPhone's Mediocre Battery Life Still Beats Rivals
by nhoizeyiPhone Human Interface Guidelines
by night.kameOnly one iPhone application can run at a time, and third-party applications never run in the background. This means that when users switch to another application, answer the phone, or check their email, the application they were using quits.