Wednesday, October 1, 2003

Shifts in Palm’s strategy

InternetNews.com looks at <A HREF="http://boston.internet.com/news/article.php/3085791">Palm's latest devices</A>, the Tungsten T3 (USD$399), Tungsten E (USD$199), and Zire 21 (USD$99) to suit the needs of its business and casual users. Analysts are seeing Palm's shift in strategy as it has signed a comprehensive multi-year, multi-release agreement with IBM to distribute the Websphere Micro Environment (IBM's Java Mobile Information Device Profile runtime) with its future Tungsten handhelds. PalmOne has also stepped-up support for Palm synching to Microsoft Outlook as it says upwards of 50 percent of its user-base synchs to the email application.

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