The similarities between PalmOne/Palmsource and Nokia are becoming more and more obvious - the N boys now start to copy yet another undesirable aspect of the platform which once used to dominate the mobile computing market. I am referring to API fragmentation - while Palm developers used to struggle with hardbuttons, Nokia folk now gets to

Jean-Louis Gassée, founder of Be Inc. and former PalmSource Chairman and Apple Exec, posted an interesting little factoid to the Monday Note blog blog concerning a potential Apple acquisition of Palm way back in 1997. Monday Note is co-authored Frédéric Filloux and Jeal-Louis Gassee. The paragraph in question is entitled "Android: First Impressions" and reads: A perhaps little...

Access, the PalmSource buyer, has just publicized its Palm OS successor — the Access Linux Platform 3.0. As implied by its name, Access Linux Platform 3.0 is Linux-based yet it supports not only... [

Japan’s Access, the company that purchased PalmSource and Palm OS back in 2005, has today officially announced and unveiled the successor to Palm OS, the Access Linux Platform 3.0 or simply ALP 3.0. This linux based release, which is expected to replace the Garnet OS (renamed from Palm OS), not only supports native Linux and

Access, the PalmSource buyer, has just publicized its Palm OS successor — the Access Linux Platform 3.0. As implied by its name, Access Linux Platform 3.0 is Linux-based yet it supports not only Linux applications. It is also supportive of Garnet OS applications, even Java. ALP 3.0 has strictly complied with the LiMo Foundation’s specifications

Today Access, the company that purchased PalmSource, officially unveiled its Linux based successor to the Garnet OS (formerly known as Palm OS). The Access Linux Platform 3.0, as it is known, supports not only native Linux applications, but also legacy Garnet OS applications as well as Java apps. ALP 3.0, as it is known, is

Alright, girls. Here we go. This is the new Palm OS, fresh out of Access, the company that bought PalmSource during the Great Post-.Com Boom Palm Upheaval. The OS supports Linux applications along with classic Garnet apps from the previous generation. Access has published PDFs on the OS and framework and there is some expectation that the OS will be hit Japan sometime this year and, if the angels ...

The Symbian Foundation just got new top brass – Nagel Clifford announced that Lee Williams is the new Executive Director of the Symbian Foundation: Lee Williams currently heads the S60 software organization at Nokia’s. before that, he served as head of engineering at Be Inc (responsible for BeOS). After Be was bought up by Palmsource, he

The uncertain future facing the ALP aka the Access Linux Platform, the latest effort from the entity formerly known as PalmSource and now part of Japan's Access Software, just became increasingly grim if the latest report from the Inquirer is correct. In short, the article claims that the Samsung i800, reported in February of this year, and fully expected to be the market's first ALP-based handset

Access, makers of the NetFront browser and the Access Linux Platform, recently demonstrated their next generation Palm operating system. Palm split off as two companies--a hardware company named Palm (PalmOne at the time) and a software company called PalmSource--and Access bought PalmSource after the firm had some financial troubles sustaining itself and finding hardware manufacturers to adopt th