HP recently held a presentation / webcast for employees and Palm Exec Jon Rubinstein discussed both Palm and the future of webOS during the presentation.

Rubinstein was typically bullish about Palm’s future given that he (and we) expects the mobile web to become "10 times larger than today’s PC internet." Palm now has the resources to deal with a scale of that size, Rubinstein said that "more than 200 HP employees have joined the Palm team, including many sales people."

Some of those HP employees on-site for the presentation received Palm Pre phones. One such question was from an HP employee looking to find out how soon webOS would be able to handle the (probably pretty secure) Enterprise intranet the company uses. Rubinstein noted that "We do have VPN capability and that type of thing coming online soon. We do have enterprise-class security coming in the future as well."

VPN is no surprise after the gigantic webOS 2.0 screenshot leak earlier this week, but we’ll be curious what other enterprise features will be coming. More generally, we’re glad to see that HP is facilitating engagement between Palm and the larger company.

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In the latest move that may bode well for HP’s expansion of webOS into the enterprise (we covered its new channel plans last week) the company has hired Mark Angelino as its new senior vice president, Global Distribution, HP Enterprise Business. His job will include managing relationships for the many types of companies (integrators, service providers, consultants and vendors) that help HP get its products into the hands of enterprise customers.

From a Palm perspective, Angelino’s prior positions (including sales and marketing jobs at Sprint Nextel and most recently serving as a senior executive for customer services at Salesforce.com, as well as a “long stint at IBM,”) may bode well for his being able to understand and promote the place of a mobile operating system and multitasking smartphones within the enterprise. We also note that, in making the announcement, HP made a point of highlighting Mr. Angelino’s background in "cloud computing, telecommunications and sales," all very relevant for promoting webOS smartphones and other devices.

We wish Mr. Angelino much success in his new role at HP, and hope to hear great things from him about webOS devices in the near future.

(Source: ITChannelPlanet)

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We said in our Palm Pre Plus review that the device is this close to being a very compelling device for Enterprise users. There’s a cold, hard truth to face, though: it’s not there yet. It still lacks document editing, for one. For two, the fact of the matter is that for most corporate users you can take their BlackBerrys when you pry them from their cold, dead hands – it’s not for nothing that our sister site is called CrackBerry.com

But let’s face it: corporate users with BlackBerrys are likely looking for a few things that their main company phones don’t offer: tethering, apps, and a decent web browser. Now that the Palm Pre Plus is a paltry $49.99 after rebate and Mobile Hotspot is free, it’s time for Corporate America to take another look at the Palm Pre Plus.

Let’s break it down

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