IDG World Expo today announced that attendance to last January’s Macworld Expo conference in San Francisco was up by nearly 20 percent. The show management company, which does not disclose numbers at the actual event, said that the attendance certification audit was performed by BPA World Wide, showing a 19 percent increase in overall visitors from…
Palm Snags Former Apple Engineer
In a move to fend off competition from the likes of Apple and Motorola, Sunnyvale, Calif., smartphone maker Palm has hired one of the engineers behind the vaunted iPod to work on future products. Paul Mercer, whose start-up Pixo — since acquired by Sun Microsystems — helped create the original iPod operating system for Apple, joined Palm in February, according to a Palm spokesperson.