A tale of Treo intrigue
A tale of Treo intrigue | Tech News on ZDNet: "Palm CEO Ed Colligan spent several days in Cannes in February 2004 talking up the Treo handheld computing device over its Windows-based competitors. But that same week, away from the massive 3GSM trade show, he was secretly meeting with the enemy.
At a nondescript Comfort Inn a short distance from the main conference center, Colligan and several Palm colleagues held a clandestine gathering with a team from Microsoft that was led by mobile unit head Pieter Knook. The groups took separate cabs to the hotel, met for several hours in a conference room, and then returned to the tech confab as though their rendezvous had never happened.
The secret meeting, to discuss business terms of a possible partnership, paved the way for the developers of the Palm operating system to join up with a company that had once been their fiercest rival.
Now Colligan and his Microsoft counterparts have gone public. On Monday, Colligan and Microsoft chairman Bill Gates were on a ballroom stage at the far-tonier Palace Hotel in San Francisco to announce plans for a Windows-based Treo."
Some More Information:
Geekzone:"Palm, Inc. and Microsoft Corp. have announced a strategic alliance to accelerate the smartphone market segment with a new device for mobile professionals and businesses. Palm has licensed the Microsoft Windows Mobile operating system for an expanded line of Treo smartphones, the first of which will be available on Verizon Wireless' 3G wireless broadband network."
Palm and Microsoft coming together for a one common purpose...how nice.
"...The collaboration gives customers more choices and marks a dedicated effort to deliver one of the world's most innovative smartphone solutions on the software platform favored by many businesses.. Verizon Wireless expects the new Treo smartphone to be available to its customers in early 2006."
It Seems like they are keeping this "project" of their a big secret.
"...Full product details will be disclosed when the product is available for purchase in early calendar 2006. No plans were revealed for additional mobile operators. Palm indicated that a Treo smartphone using Windows Mobile based on other wireless technologies was not anticipated to be released earlier than the second half of 2006."
At a nondescript Comfort Inn a short distance from the main conference center, Colligan and several Palm colleagues held a clandestine gathering with a team from Microsoft that was led by mobile unit head Pieter Knook. The groups took separate cabs to the hotel, met for several hours in a conference room, and then returned to the tech confab as though their rendezvous had never happened.
The secret meeting, to discuss business terms of a possible partnership, paved the way for the developers of the Palm operating system to join up with a company that had once been their fiercest rival.
Now Colligan and his Microsoft counterparts have gone public. On Monday, Colligan and Microsoft chairman Bill Gates were on a ballroom stage at the far-tonier Palace Hotel in San Francisco to announce plans for a Windows-based Treo."
Some More Information:
Geekzone:"Palm, Inc. and Microsoft Corp. have announced a strategic alliance to accelerate the smartphone market segment with a new device for mobile professionals and businesses. Palm has licensed the Microsoft Windows Mobile operating system for an expanded line of Treo smartphones, the first of which will be available on Verizon Wireless' 3G wireless broadband network."
Palm and Microsoft coming together for a one common purpose...how nice.
"...The collaboration gives customers more choices and marks a dedicated effort to deliver one of the world's most innovative smartphone solutions on the software platform favored by many businesses.. Verizon Wireless expects the new Treo smartphone to be available to its customers in early 2006."
It Seems like they are keeping this "project" of their a big secret.
"...Full product details will be disclosed when the product is available for purchase in early calendar 2006. No plans were revealed for additional mobile operators. Palm indicated that a Treo smartphone using Windows Mobile based on other wireless technologies was not anticipated to be released earlier than the second half of 2006."
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