Instead, the company is in danger of going the way of its 1990s Palm Pilot, making it the latest innovator to learn that great technology and an accomplished leader dont guarantee success.
Several analysts say Palm Inc. might not remain an independent phone maker for more than a year or two. It just could be too late to stop the momentum enjoyed by Apple Inc.s iPhone and Research In Motion Ltd.s BlackBerrys - not to mention a growing crop of phones running Google Inc.s Android software.
Palm spokesman Derick Mains said the company had no comment.
Consumers have gravitated toward smart phones for [...]

Time Warner Cable Inc., the biggest pay-television provider in New York City, is pitching phone companies including AT&T and Verizon Wireless on a service that uses its underground cables to carry mobile calls and Web downloads — easing the congestion spurred by data-hungry users of smartphones like the iPhone.
The service, known in the industry as wireless backhaul, has become Time Warner Cables fastest-growing business after revenue tripled last year, said Craig Collins, senior vice president of business services. Across the cable industry, sales from wireless carriers [...]

The models will have easy access to social-networking sites and include keyboards for text messaging, according to one of the people, who asked not to be identified because the plans arent public. The phones will be made by Sharp Corp. and carry the Microsoft and Verizon Wireless brands, the other person said.
Until now, Microsoft has focused on providing its mobile Windows software to phone makers, rather than offering a model under its own brand. The move would parallel Google Inc.s decision to sell the Nexus One [...]

The survey results being released by the group Monday offer another sign of how people are changing they way they get information. Technology has been reshaping the news business and the way consumers relate to it for more than a decade. The latest shift is being driven by the exploding popularity of phones that can easily access the Internet.
The new study found that 26 percent of Americans get news on their phones. Pew doesnt have comparable data for say, two or three years ago. But evidence of the shift in habits can be seen in this finding: Younger cell phone [...]

“He didnt always pay too much attention to what people were saying,” Kallasvuo says, warming to the point. “He believed in what he was doing.”
Like the former president, Kallasvuo, 56, has had to develop a thick skin in his struggle to pull Nokia out of its swoon, Bloomberg Markets reports in its April issue.
Since “OPK,” as hes known inside the company, took over the worlds largest mobile phone maker in 2006, he [...]

Applications to do just that are already available for Apples iPhone and other gadgets from USAA, a company that provides insurance and banking mainly for military veterans. Chase, Bank of America and Citibank are among the banks planning to release similar applications this year.
Although the technology, known as remote-deposit capture, promises to save consumers time, it adds a new wrinkle to concerns about fraud and the privacy of financial data. But the banks and the technology companies helping them say they have largely overcome these concerns. And with new guidelines from federal regulators, more banks could start to feel comfortable [...]

There were an estimated 4.6 billion mobile phone subscriptions at the end of last year, compared with about 1 billion in 2002, the International Telecommunication Union said in a report. In developing nations, 57 percent of people were signed up.
“The rate of progress remains remarkable,” the U.N. agency said.
The report tallied cell phone, landline telephone and Internet usage in 159 countries, from the mainly European nations that are most advanced in information technology to those in sub-Saharan Africa that are the least developed.
Internet use has grown, but at a slower pace, the report said.
An estimated 1.7 billion people, or 26 [...]

The Bureau of Public Enterprises has a letter from China Unicom (Europe) Operations Ltd. confirming its part of a group that bid for Nitel, Joseph Anichebe, a spokesman for the bureau, said in a phone interview yesterday from Abuja, Nigerias capital. China Unicom (Europe) is a subsidiary of China Unicom, according to the Beijing-based companys Web site.
“We are standing by our announcement,” Anichebe said.
The Nigerian government said on Feb. 16 it selected [...]

The most famous entrant in the category is Apple Inc.s iPad, which comes out next month. But many other manufacturers are crowding into the niche, and were planning to do so even before Apples announcement in January.
Some of them are making keyboard-less “tablet” computers in the vein of the iPad. Others are making small laptop-like things known as “smartbooks” that will sell for a few hundred dollars.
Hewlett-Packard Co. showed its first smartbook this week in Barcelona at Mobile World Congress, the worlds largest cell phone trade show. At first glance, HPs Compaq AirLife 100 looks just like a netbook - [...]

If a technology demonstration by NTT DoCoMo goes anywhere, we may have to get ready for another odd sight: people who quickly flick their gaze sideways and roll their eyes for no apparent reason.
Theyll be controlling their phones or their music players. NTT DoCoMo has created headphones that sense eye movements. For instance, you can look from right to left to pause your music. Look right, then right again, to skip to the next track. Roll them clockwise to raise the volume.
NTT DoCoMo, a Japanese wireless carrier, demonstrated the headphones this week at the worlds largest wireless trade show, Mobile [...]