Programming games to use multi processing cores. The Sanyo battery recall will cost the company $17 million. Palm is trying its hand again with an OS for its PDAs.

"We have been developing a set of system software that we will roll out before the end of the year that will allow us to take the Palm OS forward, and to modernize it and to upgrade that functionality and to bring the user community and developer community forward on top of a Linux kernel," Colligan said. He added that it was "critical" Palm owned its own technologies.