[olug] Palm up for sale

[T. J. Brumfield]

If they bought out a rival to Android, it could bring down anti-trust
investigators.

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Benjamin Watson <bwatson1979 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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