Palm, Inc.

Palm, Inc. manufactures the Palm OS-based Zire, Tungsten PDAs, Treo smartphones and the LifeDrive. Previous product lines include the Palm Pilot, Palm III, Palm V and Palm VII.

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Palm OS - Zire - Tungsten - PDAs - Treo - Smartphones - LifeDrive - Palm Pilot

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Palm Computing, Inc. was founded in 1992 by Jeff Hawkins, Donna Dubinsky, and Ed Colligan, later co-inventors of the Palm Pilot. Its first product was the Graffiti handwriting recognition software for the Apple Newton MessagePad. The company was acquired by U.S. Robotics Corp. in 1995. In June 1997, Palm became a subsidiary of 3Com when U.S. Robotics was acquired by 3Com. In June 1998 the founders became unhappy at the direction in which 3Com was taking the company, they left and founded Handspring. 3Com made the Palm subsidiary an independent, publicly traded company on March 2, 2000, and it was traded on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol PALM.

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1992 - Jeff Hawkins - Donna Dubinsky - Ed Colligan - Graffiti - Handwriting recognition - Apple Newton - U.S. Robotics Corp. - 1995 - June - 1997 - 3Com - 1998 - Handspring - March 2 - 2000 - NASDAQ

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In August 2003, the hardware division of the company merged with Handpring, was renamed to palmOne, Inc. and traded under the ticker symbol PLMO. The software division became PalmSource, Inc.; the Palm trademark was held by a jointly-owned holding company. In April 2005 palmOne purchased PalmSource's share in the 'Palm' trademark for US$30 millionhttp://www.palm.com/us/company/pr/news_feed_story.epl?reqid=712951. In July 2005, palmOne launched its new name and brand reverting to Palm, Inc. and trading under the ticker symbol PALM once again.

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August - 2003 - PalmSource, Inc. - April - 2005 - July

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On September 26th 2005, Palm announced a partnership with Verizon and Microsoft, to create the first Windows Mobile-powered Treo known as the Palm Treo 700w. It is unknown if there will ever be a Palm Treo 700p bundled with Palm OS Cobalt, but it seems unlikely as this may have been because PalmSource was recently purchased by a Japanese company known as ACCESS Co, Ltd., the manufacturers of the NetFront browser for embedded devices.

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Windows Mobile - Treo - PalmSource - NetFront

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