Sept. 6, 2007
Palm cancels ill-advised Foleo
Business 2.0
Palm will take a multi-million hit for this move.
”Palm CEO Ed Colligan minutes ago announced that the company is canceling Foleo, a laptop-like device Palm announced just three months ago on May 30. Foleo is being canceled, Colligan said, because the company needs to focus its software development efforts on its core smartphones, which compete with Research in Motion’s BlackBerry and Apple’s iPhone.”
Sun skimps on the artificial sweetner
Time
Justin Fox writes about the ponytail that is Johnathan Schwartz.
“I went to a Sun Microsystems presentation for Wall Street analyst types this morning. I don’t often attend such events, and one could argue that, having already written one blog post about the company this year, I have dramatically overcovered it relative to the rest of corporate America. But they invited me, I didn’t have anything else on my schedule this morning, and I was curious.”
Peeking inside Google Chinal
Valleywag
Megan McCarthy has read this book and has inside dirt on Google in China.
” The pictures come from inside the Googleplex Zhongguancun (say that five times fast — hint, the “c” is pronounced “ts”). Most importantly, there’s a rundown of a typical lunch menu — seafood pizza, pumpkin risotto, braised mushroom with bamboo and steamed crab. The most interesting takeaway?”
