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| Thu Dec 18, 2008 - 10:12 AM EST - By Jay Gross | |
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BusinessWeek is reporting that Palm's impending CES announcement will indeed be the new (code-name) Nova operating system. In an article on Jon Rubinstein, the head of product development. The publication said Palm is "aiming for the 'Fat Middle'" with the new OS.
Rubinstein's efforts are about to bear their first fruits. On Jan. 8 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Palm is due to unveil the long-awaited operating system, code-named Nova, as well as the first of a family of products that will run on it. "People's work and personal lives are melding," Colligan says, adding that Palm is aiming for the "fat middle of the market."Ed Colligan, of course, is CEO. Looks like the deep dark secret isn't much of a secret, though Palm's done a pretty good job of keeping the details of the new OS under wraps. I can wait. My Centro's working fine, even if the industry is calling the model "nearing-end-of-cycle." The (red!) paint's still pretty, and the phone still works. According to the BusinessWeek article, "Cash-strapped carriers are loath to take on the cost of supporting another platform and software developers are busy building software for other devices..."
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