Palm is Focused on the Business

Bloomberg.com has a new interesting article posted today called 'Palm Chief Says He's Ignoring Takeover Calls, Focusing on Sales." Ville Heiskanen recently talked to Ed Colligan at the Palm headquaters.

The following are excerpts from the Bloomberg.com article:

April 9 (Bloomberg) -- Palm Inc. Chief Executive Officer Ed Colligan says he is ignoring calls to sell the phone maker and is focused on winning back sales lost to Research In Motion Ltd. and Nokia Oyj.

``I can't sit here and worry about that,'' he said in an interview at Palm's Sunnyvale, California, headquarters. ``I can only worry about how the business is performing and what can we do as a team to do better, to get our products out faster, to drive for higher reliability, to grab more market share.''

" Palm spent the past two years copying a design from larger rivals including Nokia that includes a standardized core to cut production costs and get handsets built faster. Using the same base in all its phones will let Palm create a new handset in nine months, down from as much as two years, Colligan said. New devices built this way go on sale this year, he said."

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I believe that we are looking at the visible results of "Palm 2.0", which started with Palm getting back down to business after having finally corrected the disastrous move of spinning of their software business arm, PalmSource. Palm has been working to cut their costs, develop new hardware solutions, and developing better software for their devices. This can only be good news for Palm's customers.