|
    Palm's SVP of Engineering Leaves the CompanyPosted By: Ryan Kairer on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 1:18:27 PM
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:
A Palm spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment in time for this article. Thanks, Seldom Visitor.
More Stories Like This...  Former Danger and Helio Design Director Now at Palm Verizon Treo 755p Update Released Palm Q4 FY08 Conference Call Highlights Palm Reports Q4 and FY 2008 Results Google Maps My Location Feature Available Tomorrow Unlocked Palm Centro Now Available in the US More articles about Palm
Article Comments
14 total comments The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. PIC is not responsible for them in any way. login or register for free in order to post comments. 
 RE: The Genius behind removing the external antenna?retrospooty @ 9/19/2007 7:33:56 PM #
"wow - what a loss for Palm. what an innovator."
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
If Palm needs 12-18 months for a new break thru product, they will be toast. Too bad but the time wasted on the Foleo might prove to be the proverbial straw. rpa Palm Pilot >> Palm Tungsten E user RE: no surprise
Palm isn't going belly up. It is all FUD. Just be patient. 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
That gave me a laugh when it first came out, and I have been laughing ever since. Surur RE: no surprise
"Microsoft has missed the boat. Palm was asleep at the wheel, just coasting along for a couple of years. This was Microsoft's only hope to take over the market. But that time is over. PalmSource is aggressively improving the Palm OS. It already has 87% of retail sales in the United States and sells about twice as many handhelds in the Enterprise market as Microsoft does. Expect PPC's share to drop back to single figures. Especially during the burst of sales caused by Palm users upgrading to the new operating system.
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. " **************************************************** 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.
 PALM made notice of Farese's departure a little more formalSeldomVisitor @ 9/19/2007 8:08:53 PM #
The filing mentioned above in the PiC article actually was made by/for Mr. Farese - not sufficient for a "PALM notice". They included the OFFICIAL notice of his departure in the just-filed 8K that is used to support their search for funding for that $400 million loan:
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
Bitwave
http://www.bitwavesemiconductor.com/change.htm
Mike Farese should have spent more time at Palm trying to imagine adding WiFi services to a customer's phone *BEFORE* the original sale.
Does anyone know if Celeste Baranski (sp?) is...SeldomVisitor @ 9/26/2007 12:25:25 PM #
...still at PALM? RE: Does anyone know if Celeste Baranski (sp?) is...TreoUserToo @ 9/28/2007 6:41:29 PM #
No she isn't there, and hasn't been for well over a year. RE: Does anyone know if Celeste Baranski (sp?) is...SeldomVisitor @ 9/28/2007 8:08:43 PM #
Tenkuveddymuch.
|
Special Deals
Palm Reading? |
||||
PalmInfocenter.com is not affiliated with or endorsed by Palm Inc, Access or PalmSource in any way.
Any use of the word Palm is for discussion purposes and is a registered trademark of Palm Inc.
Unauthorized reproduction of content is strictly forbidden.
© MobileInfocenter.com, all rights reserved.
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.
Excellent move.