{"id":534877,"date":"2010-04-19T18:04:22","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T22:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"tag:contentnext.com,2010-04-19:article\/419-radioshack-gives-up-on-palm"},"modified":"2010-04-19T18:04:22","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T22:04:22","slug":"radioshack-gives-up-on-palm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/534877","title":{"rendered":"RadioShack Gives Up On Palm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"border: 1px solid silver; padding: 4px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 0; float: left;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/moconews.net\/article\/419-radioshack-gives-up-on-palm\/\" title=\"RadioShack \" class=\"image_link image\" id=\"86659_3506\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/paidcontent.org\/images\/editorial\/_original\/radioshack-o.jpg\" alt=\"RadioShack \" width=\"170\" height=\"170\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>And apparently things can get <a href=\"http:\/\/moconews.net\/article\/419-palm-adds-a-retention-program-for-key-employees-as-svp-abbott-quits\/\" title=\"even worse\">even worse<\/a> for Palm (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.paidcontent.org\/paidcontent?Page=QUOTE&#038;Ticker=PALM\" class=\"ticker\" title=\"PALM\">NSDQ: PALM<\/a>) &#8230; RadioShack, which had been a distributor of both Palm&#8217;s Pre and Pixi phones, is no longer carrying the devices. A Sprint (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.paidcontent.org\/paidcontent?Page=QUOTE&#038;Ticker=S\" class=\"ticker\" title=\"S\">NYSE: S<\/a>) representative <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.barrons.com\/techtraderdaily\/2010\/04\/19\/sprint-confirms-radio-shack-phasing-out-palm-pre-pixi-sales\/\" title=\"tells Barron's\">tells Barron&#8217;s<\/a> that it will be replacing the phones with two others in RadioShack stores; &#8220;This is in line with Radio Shack\u2019s normal product planning process&#8212;there is a designated amount of space in stores for handsets and they work to keep the line up of devices as current as possible,&#8221; a spokesman says; RadioShack isn&#8217;t commenting.<\/p>\n<p>Neither phone has sold as well as Palm had hoped&#8212;and the bad news has come in droves since Palm announced <a href=\"http:\/\/moconews.net\/article\/419-palms-stock-dives-as-analyst-downgrades-target-price-to-0\/\" title=\"dismal third-quarter results\">dismal third-quarter results<\/a> last month. The company has reportedly put itself up for sale&#8212;and on Friday announced that its top webOS executive <a href=\"http:\/\/moconews.net\/article\/419-palm-adds-a-retention-program-for-key-employees-as-svp-abbott-quits\/\" title=\"was resigning\">was resigning<\/a>. Ironically, RadioShack <a href=\"http:\/\/moconews.net\/article\/419-radioshack-looks-to-mobile-phones-for-recovery-will-run-kiosks-for-targ\/\" title=\"has been hoping\">has been hoping<\/a> that sales of mobile phones will help its own fortunes.\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"related\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/moconews.net\/article\/419-radioshack-looks-to-mobile-phones-for-recovery-will-run-kiosks-for-targ\/\" title=\"RadioShack Looks To Mobile Phones For Recovery; Will Run Kiosks For Target\">RadioShack Looks To Mobile Phones For Recovery; Will Run Kiosks For Target<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/moconews.net\/article\/419-palm-adds-a-retention-program-for-key-employees-as-svp-abbott-quits\/\" title=\"Palm Adds A Retention Program For Key Employees, As SVP Abbott Quits\">Palm Adds A Retention Program For Key Employees, As SVP Abbott Quits<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/CYZwPN15yd3Y3-J4vO5RhmaVxuA\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/CYZwPN15yd3Y3-J4vO5RhmaVxuA\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/CYZwPN15yd3Y3-J4vO5RhmaVxuA\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/CYZwPN15yd3Y3-J4vO5RhmaVxuA\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.moconews.net\/~ff\/moconews?a=HeBYVZYuBuc:1GocPsvyTzE:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/moconews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.moconews.net\/~ff\/moconews?a=HeBYVZYuBuc:1GocPsvyTzE:dnMXMwOfBR0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/moconews?d=dnMXMwOfBR0\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.moconews.net\/~ff\/moconews?a=HeBYVZYuBuc:1GocPsvyTzE:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/moconews?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.moconews.net\/~ff\/moconews?a=HeBYVZYuBuc:1GocPsvyTzE:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/moconews?i=HeBYVZYuBuc:1GocPsvyTzE:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.moconews.net\/~ff\/moconews?a=HeBYVZYuBuc:1GocPsvyTzE:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/moconews?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.moconews.net\/~ff\/moconews?a=HeBYVZYuBuc:1GocPsvyTzE:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/moconews?i=HeBYVZYuBuc:1GocPsvyTzE:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/moconews\/~4\/HeBYVZYuBuc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And apparently things can get even worse for Palm (NSDQ: PALM) &#8230; RadioShack, which had been a distributor of both Palm&#8217;s Pre and Pixi phones, is no longer carrying the devices. A Sprint (NYSE: S) representative tells Barron&#8217;s that it will be replacing the phones with two others in RadioShack stores; &#8220;This is in line [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":679,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/679"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}