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Telstra adds one million mobile services, but Sensis plummets

Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.

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Palm turns to Linux for future smartphones

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Embattled PDA maker Palm is set to release Linux-based smartphones by the end of the year.

The new devices will run the Palm OS on a Linux platform which has been under development for several years, Palm has revealed during a meeting with investors and analysts in New York. The new platform will support existing Palm OS applications.

The move comes only a year after Palm released its first Windows Mobile-based Treo smartphones and Palm will still continue to release Windows-based devices, Palm CEO Ed Colligan said at the event. It also comes only months before Apple releases its iPhone.

Palm has sold off its PalmOS, but recently purchased a perpetual license for the Palm OS5 "Garnet" operating system. Unlike previous Palm operating systems, Palm does not intend to license the new Linux-based platform to other handheld vendors, Colligan said. He avoided discussion of takeover rumours that have dogged the handheld maker.

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