Rubinstein, a gadget guru who helped create the iPod, is viewed as the driving force behind the creation of webOS and all recent webOS products, such as the Palm Pre series of smartphones and the TouchPad.

FORBES: webOS Developers Bewildered By HP Decision To Drop Hardware

However, unlike the Bell South packet network used by such devices as the RIM pager and handheld products, the Palm operating system is not able to have e-mails pushed down to it automatically.

CNN: HandSpring gains wireless Web access

In 2010, he prodded the Sara Lee Corporation to commit to purchasing palm oil from suppliers that are members of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm (RSPO), an international organization of producers, distributors, conservationists and other stakeholders, formed in 2004 to promote the growth and use of sustainable oil palm products.

FORBES: Dunkin' Donuts Gets Set To Run On Clean Palm Oil