Struggling smartphone maker Palm is slashing its workforce numbers as it continues to lose market share to rivals Apple and Blackberry (Research in Motion).
Employees are already being ejected at a rate of knots, with spokeswoman Lynn Fox positively spinning the workers’ misery thus: “The goal is to consolidate resources and focus our efforts more effectively.”
Palm currently employs around a thousand employees but has seen their bite of the smartphone market shrink, despite the success of the Palm OS Centro smartphone and their well received Windows Mobile handsets.
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Look, we’ll come right out with it. We’re gadget freaks. 
T-Mobile may be busy bigging up a rosy picture of the soaraway success of their Android-powered G1 phone and gushing that sales are “exceeding expectations”, but UK trade newspaper Mobile News is telling a different story.
The media stereotype might have the Scots as haggis-scoffing skinflints, but a new study shows that when it comes to laptops, they’re one of the big spenders around town. 
Europeans can now can legitimately order their own One Laptop Per Child (
Internet users are being advised to batten down the hatches, set phasers to stun and retire to their bunkers next week with Monday, 24th November being predicted as the worst day the year for computer attacks.
Despite endless hand wringing from City suits and Private Fraser pronouncements of impending dooooom, the European PC market grew faster than expected in this year’s third quarter, pushed along by healthy sales of netbooks. 
Freshly minted in their busy Nordic factories is Nokia’s new E63, a rather natty looking handset sporting a full QWERTY keyboard in an attractively slim package.