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Palm CEO Ed Colligan announced the cancellation of the company's Foleo mobile companion today in a post on the company's official blog. Colligan cites the need to focus effort on Palm's next-generation smartphone operating system as the reason behind the decision.

This week on Open News: The Desktop Linux Survey Results, Gates Picks Up The Red Phone For OOXML, No More Get The FUD, Palm Foleo Is Delayed, Goobuntu Is Confirmed, and Windows As A Punishment.

Putting another hitch into a product release that has already been roundly booed by critics, Deutsche Bank analyst Jonathan Goldberg put out a note Wednesday saying that Palm's new Foleo has been delayed. Initially priced at $500, the Foleo is essentially a Linux-based, large-screen companion device to the Treo, allowing users to create e-mails and edit documents using a 10-inch display and a full-sized keyboard. The new device, which weighs a relatively hefty 2.5 pounds, synchs automatically with the user's Treo, and includes a battery with up to five hours of life.

At LinuxWorld in San Francisco, Palm announced two new software providers for the Palm Foleo mobile companion. LogMeIn, the world's leading provider of remote connectivity, will bring remote PC access capabilities to the Palm Foleo through secure connections over the web, enabling easy desktop remote control, data backup and file sharing. With this application, users can quickly and securely access files and network resources on their home or work computers when away. Palm has also selected Wind River as its Linux platform provider for future Foleo software releases.

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 97 for the week of July 15th through July 21st 2007. In this issue: fedorapeople.org is now available, Smolt, Open Invitation, Ohio Linux Fest Keynote Address, GNOME Cookbook, Repoview-0.6.0, Mascots and Fedora, Volunteers needed for GITEX, New in Fedora: Jack Aboutboul, Proposed Fedora 8 Features and much, much more.

Palm's Linux-powered Foleo has potential, but only if Palm can stop denying that the device is actually laptop, reckons Sascha Segan of Gearlog. Palm has positioned the Foleo as a "mobile companion" for itinerant workers needing only email, document prep, and PowerPoint capabilities.

Palm will not ship its Linux smartphone until next year, the company's chief executive Ed Colligan disclosed during an earnings call. The maker of the Treo smartphone revealed in April that it is developing a Linux-based operating system for its mobile phones.

Plans to switch the company's ageing Garnet operating system to a new Linux core taking longer than expected, according to Palm.

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 93 for the week of June 17th through June 23rd, 2007.

Comprehensive Upgrade Improves Performance and Extends Usability for Leading Open Source Alternative to Microsoft Exchange

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 91 for the week of June 3rd through June 9th, 2007.

Palm has used Linux to build a "new class" of mobile device. The Foleo aims to expand the email, Internet, and productivity application capabilities of mobile phones such as the Palm Treo, by adding a full-size keyboard and a larger screen.

Did you miss the 3rd annual Red Hat Summit? Not to worry, this month's Red Hat Magazine synopsis has all the updates, blogs, and announcement coverage you need to stay informed. Also in May, Red Hat Magazine featured articles on open voting, video updates on the One Laptop per Child project, and the continuation of popular columns. More Inkscape anyone?

This week on Open News TiVo A Victim Of GPLv3, Open Source Market Worth $1.8B, and Star Office Takes Singapore Airlines For A Ride.

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Palm has used Linux to build a "new class" of mobile device. The Foleo aims to expand the email, Internet, and productivity application capabilities of mobile phones such as the Palm Treo, by adding a full-size keyboard and a larger screen. Very few details about the Foleo are known at this point. Opera, which supplied its Opera 9 browser for the device, has confirmed the Foleo to be based on Linux. For its part, Palm has published a few photos and brief videos of the device, while promising to release more details tomorrow.

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Mobile device specialists Palm have stepped away from the handheld device market with the launch of the larger, Linux-based Foleo which is a lot more like a notebook than a handheld device. But will it catch on?

Handheld device maker tries to bridge gap between smartphone and laptop.

Disagreements between developers from the G Palmtop Environment (GPE) project and the administrators of the mobile Linux portal Handhelds.org now include a trademark dispute. Handhelds.org claims trademark ownership of the name GPE, and has demanded control over the GPE IRC channel.