Palm launches Palm Buds Pro wireless earbuds

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Palm's newest product isn't another tiny companion device for your smartphone. This time, the company is releasing a pair of true wireless earbuds designed by former designers from Beats By Dre and Samsung. According to Palm, it researched what features consumers wanted from wireless earbuds to create the Palm Buds Pro. 

The earbuds feature active noise cancellation, bass-heavy audio with 10mm dynamic drivers, and a six-microphone array to help rid background noise while on calls. These earbuds also get an Ambient Mode that lets you hear both the audio you're playing and the sound from those around you. 

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Don't look now, Palm might be making a comeback

Sold, stripped for parts, and left to die, it seems that the final chapter on Palm's existence had long been written. It seems that Palm might be making a comeback since TCL Communication, who makes the Alcatel OneTouch line of smartphones, plans to relaunch Palm as a US-based brand of smartphones.

Based on early reports, the rebooted Palm brand won't necessarily be running its own operating system. The webOS component from Palm was acquired by LG from HP when the latter tried to dispose of the parts of its 1 Billion acquistion of Palm. If we look at what TCL Communication has done with Alcatel, we should likely expect a Palm branded device running Android.

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Jon Rubinstein leaves HP

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

iPod engineering pioneer and former Palm CEO who was the face of webOS has left HP. The official quote from Hewlett and Packard is, "Jon has fulfilled his commitment to HP. We wish him well."

It seems Rubinstein's career has come full circle. He started his career at HP as a young and talented computer science and electrical enginnering graduate right out of Colorado State University. Rubenstein found his way back in HP many years later when, as then CEO of Palm, he was brought on board once Palm was acquired for 1.2 billion.

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Editorial: HP and the post PC World

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

The news today that HP was cutting off webOS and possibly shifting away entirely from the PC market was monumental for a number of reasons. Ending its pursuit of the smartphone and tablet market a mere month after it launched the TouchPad, shows that HP is very aware of where it stands in this immensely competitive space. Putting the brakes on its PC business, where it has long loomed as a giant gives us an insight of how it sees the industry and where it is going. 

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