Palm Inc

The cost of advanced mobile phones with e-mail and Internet access fell 26 percent in the three months ended in August as handset makers tried to match the $199 price tag on Apple Inc.'s iPhone. The average price of smart phones in the United States fell...

Monday •August industrial production •Earnings: Pall Corp. Tuesday •Federal Reserve meeting •August consumer price index •Earnings: AAR Corp.; Best Buy Co.; Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Wednesday •August housing...

T-Mobile said Monday that it plans to launch a mobile phone powered by Google Inc.'s Android software, making it the first operator to do so and posing a direct threat to Apple Inc.'s popular iPhone. A spokesman for Deutsche Telekom AG, T-Mobile's...

Palm Inc., Motorola Inc., Research In Motion Ltd., and other makers of mobile communications devices were sued by a closely held company that claims its patent used for networking browsing has been violated by the companies. In the suit filed this week...

NEW YORK -- Best Buy will be the first U.S. chain store to sell the iPhone starting September 7th. Best Buy's announcement expands the availability of Apple's popular phone to 970 full-size stores and 16 smaller Best Buy Mobile stores. In Europe,...

NEW YORK -- Palm Inc., which has been struggling to maintain its position in the hot market for "smart" phones, introduced a new Treo model Monday with Wi-Fi and GPS capabilities. The Treo 800w is the first major new model from Palm since last year's...

LG Electronics officially announced Sunday morning one of the worst kept secrets of this year's Consumer Electronics Show. The company's BH100 will play both Blu-ray and HD DVD discs, the first device of its kind--a clear victory for consumers who...

Apple's new competitors react to iPhone's arrival Apple Inc.'s decision to enter the mobile phone business was announced hundreds of miles from here--in San Francisco--but the news certainly reverberated in the Nevada desert, where the International...

In order to give ordinary investors a better chance of buying into its IPO, Google plans to use an electronic auction, rather than the traditional process of distributing shares through underwriters and brokers who tend to award shares to favored...

Recruiting a network of software innovators to make cell phones do new tricks is the goal of MotoCoder, a new initiative launched Tuesday in Shanghai by Motorola Inc. While the No. 2 wireless phone-maker will continue to develop new phone features in-...

Longtime foes palmOne Inc. and Microsoft Corp. Tuesday announced a licensing deal that will allow the next generation of palmOne's Treo smart phones to work directly with Microsoft's Exchange e-mail system. The unprecedented relationship is designed...

At this time of year, I'm usually scratching around for a new calendar system to track family occasions, business appointments and the like. Over the years, I've tried much of what's on the market. I started out in the paper world, where I was day-...