The Palm Pilot reached a million customers faster than any other computing device in history.
Donna Dubinsky, who pitched both the Palm Pilot and the Treo to Mossberg, is now the C.
Epocrates ruled the mobile world during the now-quaint Palm Pilot era, building a brand that resonated with doctors.
Discerning consumers will be able to call up competitive prices with a Palm Pilot or even their cell phones.
No Palm Pilot, no Memo app in an iPhone, no voice-recorder, no video, no contraption, no wires just ink and paper.
Max had hired eight or nine people to develop security software for the Palm Pilot a so-called personal organizer.
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And it came with a stylus, that relic of the Palm Pilot era, making the Note feel like a step backward.
The Palm Pilot started life as an appliance, but Palm OS would grow to a platform in order to drive new functionality.
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One of the best features of devices such as the Palm Pilot and palm-size Windows CE computers is easy synchronization with desktop PCs.
When comparisons were initially made between the Apple Newton and the original Palm Pilot, two of the most striking differences were size and input.
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Palm, which I first covered in 1994 even before it introduced the breakthrough Palm Pilot hand-held, succeeded where established players like Apple and Tandy had failed.
Web-based services like AvantGo, which synchronizes to your Palm Pilot, are far easier to use and provide better content than you can read on your phone.
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Safeway is testing a system that allows customers to select groceries on a Palm Pilot that's customized for their preferences, zap the order to the store and swing by to collect the goods.
Indeed, future smartphones and even lower-end feature phones will likely become the dominant mobile platforms with which we check the contacts and calendars that were the killer apps of the original Palm Pilot.
Mr Kusnetzky predicted that sales of information appliances - from stripped down terminals used primarily to access to the internet, to smart mobile phones and handheld computers such as the Palm Pilot - would outpace PC sales by 2004.
Green Throttle Games was co-founded by Charles Huang, co-creator of the legendary Guitar Hero video game franchise, and mobile industry veterans Matt Crowley, former Palm and Nokia product lead, and Karl Townsend, lead engineer for the first two generations of the Palm Pilot.
The government cites an e-mail sent by Mr Gates in July 1999 that showed a willingness to change Office applications to favour devices that run on Windows, even if that damaged the interests of customers who rely on the ubiquitous Palm Pilot.
Even Palm's trajectory might have been different if it had inverted its thinking in time: Imagine a Palm Pilot not as a personal information manager with connectivity, but a connected device with PIM applications, and you have described exactly what the smartphone is today.
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