Palm's SVP of Engineering Leaves the Company
Palm's Senior Vice President of Engineering, Mike Farese, has left the company according to a recent Palm SEC filing. Farese led the development of multiple Treo Smartphones including the Treo 700 and Treo 750. Mr. Farese apparently left the company to take a new CEO position at BitWave Semiconductor.
From the press release announcing his new position at BitWave:
Mike Farese is a recognized leader in the handset and semiconductor business. Over the last 35 years, he has led and contributed to many aspects of wireless business for companies including Palm, Motorola, Ericsson, Nokia Mobile Phones, Tropian and WJ Communications. He also held management positions at ITT, AT&T, and Bell Laboratories. Farese has extensive experience in all facets of the business including responsibility for business strategy, product planning, product development, partnership strategies and equity financing. He has introduced some of the first GSM/TDMA Smartphones, developed ASICs for WCDMA/UMTS and been at the forefront of development of the latest multi-mode devices in the wireless industry. Farese's execution and breadth of experience in wireless and at startups has made him ideally suited for the leadership of BitWave where their Softransceiver RFIC has just recently begun sampling to key partners. "Mike's semiconductor experiences, Smartphone handset knowledge and business network will accelerate the growth of BitWave at this critical juncture in the company's development," said Russ Cyr, the Chief Marketing Officer and one of the company co-founders.
A Palm spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment in time for this article.
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RE: The Genius behind removing the external antenna?
LOL... But seriously, you can't necessarily blame him, he was only there a few years (if that). The culture of ineptitude within Palm's engineering and upper management is far more than one person could possibly have overcome.
RE: no surprise
"Death can come swiftly to a market leader. By the time you have lost the positive-feedback cycle it's often too late to change what you've been doing, and all of the elements of a negative spiral come into play." - Bill Gates, "The Road Ahead", Chapter 3
RE: no surprise
rpa
Palm Pilot >> Palm Tungsten E user
RE: no surprise
Here. Read this while you are waiting.
http://www.palminfocenter.com/news/3626/editorial-why-the-palm-os-is-the-inevitable-winner/
RE: no surprise
Surur
RE: no surprise
The PPC won't go away. Microsoft has tons of money to pour into it and hates to admit it has failed at anything. But any other company would see the writing on the wall and drop it.
There are still plenty of "experts" who are predicting that the Pocket PC will take over the lead from the Palm OS in a few years. Keep in mind, though, these are the same people who have been predicting the same thing for years. Every year, they move back the year that Microsoft will take over. "
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Fast-forward 5 years:
1. Palm is STILL asleep at the wheel, still coasting with retread products
2. No one (Access, Palm) is improving any "Palm" OS. And even if they are, it has to be released in an actual device. And THEN the carriers have to buy it and offer it for sale.
3. Palm has no more retail sales since they sold their souls to the carrier devils and Microsoft & RIM have wrapped up the enterprise market.
4. Microsoft still has tons of money to pour into whatever they want to.
5. Really, Microsoft "took over" in 2003, when Palm released their T3 and never gave it a proper followup device. If you want to cut them some slack, for all intents and purposes we'll give 'em another 12-16 months. That's when Palm entered 2005 riding on the coattails of the good-but-not-great Treo 650 but with NO new Treos in the pipeline, NO new OS, NO compelling new handhelds and NO direction other than start flailing around as a "me too" WinMob licensee.
Pilot 1000-->Pilot 5000-->PalmPilot Pro-->IIIe-->Vx-->m505-->T|T-->T|T2-->T|C-->T|T3-->T|T5-->TX-->Treo 700P
PALM made notice of Farese's departure a little more formal
They don't mention the JUST-STARTED search for funding in the 8K, but they do in their PR-fluff about their to-come earnings:
== "...The Company is initiating the process of marketing its proposed
== Senior Secured Loan Facilities in conjunction with its recapitalization
== transaction, which was approved by shareholders on Sept. 12, 2007..."
Bitwave
Imagine a cellular operator adding WiFi services to a customer's phone after the original sale of the mobile device
Mike Farese should have spent more time at Palm trying to imagine adding WiFi services to a customer's phone *BEFORE* the original sale.
USR Palm Pilot 1000 --> Palm Pilot Professional --> TRG SuperPilot --> Palm IIIc --> Palm V --> Palm M505 --> Palm M515 --> Tungsten T|2 --> Treo 600 --> LifeDrive --> iPhone
RE: Does anyone know if Celeste Baranski (sp?) is...
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I think it was a great move for him
Excellent move.