It’s been a while since we’ve covered news from Palm. Last week, we heard that Palm held a round of layoffs, letting go as many as 200 employees. This is the second layoff since Jon Rubenstein took over last year, and this time the restructuring is due to “challenges facing our company and the industry”.

Despite this, Palm’s main investors Elevation Partners is still committed to the company and considers Palm a long term investment. In a statement, Elevation Partners co-founder and Palm Board member Roger McNanmee said that they are “very pleased with the progress Ed Colligan, Jon Rubinstein and the entire Palm team are making”. They are also “excited” about Palm’s product pipeline, including a next generation operating system due out soon (Palm OS Nova) and a new device targeted for the first half of 2009.

Palm’s still ramping up on their Windows Mobile roll-outs, witht the Treo Pro now available in 7 Latin American countries :
* Argentina (Personal, Movistar, and Claro/America Movil)
* Chile (Entel)
* Costa Rica (ICE)
* Guatemala (Claro and Tigo)
* Mexico (Movistar and Telcel/America Movil)
* Panama (Movistar)
* Puerto Rico (Claro/America Movil)

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