Ed Colligan
Ed Colligan
Edward "Ed" Colliganwas president and CEO of Palm, Inc. Colligan now is a small business investor, serves on a number of boards, and advises start-up companies...
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Palm's ... expertise, combined with Access' leading software development capabilities, will allow us to continue to deliver great products. Access is currently a software technology partner and we look forward to continuing our strong working relationship to advance the Palm OS platform.
business freed partner underlying
Things have changed, ... We aren't in the underlying OS business anymore, which has freed us to partner with others.
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Europe is our next major target region. We will launch more products this year tuned to global demand.
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People underestimate the difference between a great product and just a product.
asking carriers customers
Customers and carriers have been asking for this.
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We have sold more than 30 million Palm OS-based products over the years, and it is not our intent to walk away from such a strong and loyal user base. That's why in May we extended our license for Palm OS, giving us the right to continue to make and market Palm OS-based products until 2010.
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U.S. sales are strong but there are more challenges in Europe, ... There are a number of existing brands there that are very strong. Our products have not taken off at the level we'd like them to so far.
kept number worst
We've been working on this for a number of years, ... It was probably the worst kept secret.
computing enabling great path products provides technology
Over time, all handheld computing products will become wirelessly enabled, and Qualcomm's CDMA technology provides a great path for enabling these solutions,
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This is about growth, ... There are millions of people around the world who want that familiar Windows experience.
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This is about growth and taking this whole category to the next level,
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Our Palm OS customer loyalty is extremely high, and we intend to continue to earn that loyalty with great Palm OS-based products,
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Smart phone sell-through reported by our carrier partners more than doubled over the year-ago period, validating our strategic decision to support multiple open platforms and offer a choice of smart phones based on either Windows Mobile or Palm OS.
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Achieving the eighth consecutive quarter of year-over-year double-digit revenue growth and growing our converged device market share to 36 percent in the United States are significant accomplishments.