[olug] Palm up for sale

[Benjamin Watson]

I'm surprised that Google isn't interested, even if it is only to gain
Intellectual Property rights for defense against a possible Apple
instigated mobile patent war.

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 10:15 PM, T. J. Brumfield <enderandrew at gmail.com> wrote:
> Intel, Dell and HTC have all looked at trying to make their own mobile
> offering. HTC makes great hardware and usually uses Android currently.
> But I could see Intel, Dell or HTC buy out Palm to take over their new
> Web OS mobile software stack.
>
> -- T. J.
>
> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Chad Homan <choman at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Bloomberg: Palm Has Put Itself Up for
>> Sale<http://www.osnews.com/story/23143/Bloomberg_Palm_Has_Put_Itself_Up_for_Sale>
>>  Linked by Thom Holwerda <http://www.osnews.com/editor/11> on Mon 12th Apr
>> 2010 14:34 UTC, submitted by Governa <http://www.osnews.com/user/Governa/>
>>  [image: PDAs, Cellphones, Wireless]
>> <http://www.osnews.com/topics/17>Despite a relatively solid product,
>> it seems like Palm's last ditch effort
>> to turn the company around have failed. Bloomberg is reporting that the
>> Sunnyvale company has put itself up for
>> sale<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=arvXvuu.DqW4>,
>> and is currently working with Goldman Sachs and Qatalyst Partners to find a
>> buyer. They claim both HTC as well as Lenovo are interested in buying Palm.
>>
>>
>> Chad, CISSP
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