Then what was left of Palm Inc merged with Handspring into a new public company, palmOne.
After that, palmOne bought the Palm trademark from PalmSource, and then changed its company name back to Palm Inc.
Sadly, it's reminiscent of webOS, the last hurrah of smartphone pioneer Palm Inc.
Then Palm Inc. created PalmSource as a subsidiary, focused on the Palm OS, before spinning it off as a public company.
Palm Inc. created a credible, innovative smartphone with a physical keyboard, but it was a slide-out version, which made the keyboard seem like a burden and an afterthought.
In July, Palm Inc. surprised no one when it announced a plan to split into two companies, with a spinoff of the operating-system software unit likely by early 2003.
PalmSource was acquired by Access Systems, and renamed itself ACCESS. Private equity firm Elevation Partners bought a stake in Palm Inc (they also own a share of Forbes Media) and then eventually Palm was sold in its entirety to Hewlett-Packard.
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.
Palm, Inc. (Nasdaq:PALM) today announced that the Palm(R) Pre(TM) phone is scheduled to be available initially in the UK, Ireland and Germany exclusively on the O2 network, and in Spain exclusively on the Movistar network, in time for the holidays.
"Palm webOS is the go-to platform for great games on two of the three leading carrier networks, " said Katie Mitic, senior vice president, Product Marketing, Palm, Inc.
In a trial that lasted six (6) days, real estate developer Glenn Straub and his company Palm Polo Holdings, Inc, were found not guilty on violations of the Clean Water Act.
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