Time elapsed between the founding of Palm Computing and when HP closed up shop? 18 years.
In 1996, Palm Computing, then a recently acquired division of U.S. Robotics, unleashed the remarkable PalmPilot upon the world.
According to Palm Computing veteran Epting, who joined Handspring in January, this is both because of the Springboard's ease of use and the hand-held's limited memory.
Some even advocate the radical cure of selling a chunk of the networking business, floating the Palm Computing division and devoting the rest of the firm to wireless and broadband-access gear.
Price information hasn't been released yet, but you can expect it won't be cheap--licenses for Palm Computing (nasdaq: PALM - news - people) operating systems are very expensive.
Other manufacturers like Palm Computing (nasdaq: PALM - news - people) have picked the technology for a forthcoming MP3 player add-on for the PalmPilot, and more are sure to follow.
"We're certainly looking at WAP and find it very interesting, but we don't have any imminent plans" to use the technology, Tammy Medanich, product marketing manager with 3Com's Palm Computing division, said in a recent interview.
Dubinsky, one of the founders of Palm Computing, left that company after it was sold to 3Com, and launched Handspring, which made its own handhelds that ran the Palm OS. 3Com then spun out Palm into a public company, Palm Inc.
This generation has grown up with computing in the palm of their hands.
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The Palm Pilot reached a million customers faster than any other computing device in history.
For the better part of a decade, Palm and Microsoft have fought for dominance in the mobile computing market.
In April 2010, when HP acquired Palm, webOS developers were relieved the company had been saved, but wary about the changes the computing giant was likely to make to an operating system originally built for cellphones.
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