Author: dsellers

Palm has started handing out “golden handcuffs” to the key executives who’ve not already jumped ship, in what could be the run up to an acquisition announcement, reports “The Register” (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/19/palm_handcuffs/).

One key executive who’s already left is Michael Abbott — the man credited, in large part, with creating WebOS, the article adds. His last day will be next week, as explained in a Securities & Exchange Commission filing from Palm.

Gomez (http://www.gomez.com), which specializes in web site and application performance analytics, says that the iPad is proving surprisingly swift when it comes to web browsing.

In fact, the new Apple tablet often outperforms netbooks — perhaps its closest rival product category — when it comes to interacting with a majority of popular web sites, according to the research group. In preliminary results, Gomez said that 74% of the pages, on what it determined to be the top 50 most visited sites by iPad users, loaded faster on the iPad than on netbook computers in the U.S.