Palm plumps for private equity pump
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| The Wall Street Journal said Palm will announce a deal today with
| Elevation Partners, which will throw $325 million into the pot in
| return for the quarter share.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=40044
Apple folks betting on an iPhone competitor.
Related:
After the Treo 755p, whither the Palm OS?
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| New device uses Garnet OS, but future of old operating system
| unclear in light of Palm's impending switch to Linux-based platform
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/05/10/palm-os-after-treo-755p_1.html?source=rss&url=www.infoworld.com/article/07/05/10/palm-os-after-treo-755p_1.html
http://tinyurl.com/2qu8xq
Palm's new gizmo is...
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| The device, at about $500, is priced closely to low-end laptops.
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| # 5 hours of workable battery life, and the charger is cell phone-size,
| not a giant laptop brick.
| # Weighs under 2.5 pounds, and is less than an inch thick.
| # No touch pad -- uses a pointer like a Thinkpad.
| # It runs Linux.
| # All solid-state, of course, no hard disk.
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http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9723725-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
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