The bad news at Palm continues. The company already announced a worse-than-expected financial performance for the last quarter. The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) has an article on the new management, headed by former Apple executive Jon Rubinstein. Rubinstein, along with Palm CEO Ed Colligan, have been busy : “(they) cleaned up the company’s product plans, overhauled its engineering staff, and made several strategic new hires.”

The article also mentioned that Palm is laying off staff. It was previously mentioned by PalmInfocenter that “the layoffs are worldwide and could number in the hundreds.” This is probably long overdue, but the timing is very unfortunate, being so close to the holiday season.

I hope that the new year will bring some good news for Palm, with a leaner and (we presume) a more efficient, focused organization.

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