To: Bill McEachern who wrote (2293 ) 11/15/1999 6:05:00 PM From: Tom Drolet Respond to of 4913
Bill: Good to see you here again. I found this clip below. Gad darn it , I hope Sony takes the ECC from CIC along with the PALM OS. Would that be some 'Biggy'. FYI Tom D. Sony Takes Palm OS in Hand by Leander Kahney 8:55 a.m. 15.Nov.1999 PST In a deal that may put the Palm in the hands of millions of people's consumer electronic devices, Sony has licensed the popular handheld operating system. In return, Palm Computing will incorporate Sony's Memory Stick technology into its handhelds, the companies said at the Comdex trade show in Las Vegas on Monday. The alliance has the potential to vastly increase the number of Palm OS devices, positioning Palm as the Microsoft of the handheld era. The Sony announcement comes just weeks after Nokia said it will use Palm's handheld operating system to run the next generation of smart cell phones. "This cooperation is the first step toward establishing a powerful new consumer electronics platform for accessing a broad range of wireless based network services and content," said Kunitake Ando, president and COO of Sony?s Personal IT Network Company in a statement. Sony will put the Palm OS "into an entirely new line of handheld electronics products that will not be limited to electronic organizers but are expected to include a wide range of mobile wireless telecommunications-enabled AV/IT consumer electronics products," the statement said. In addition, the partnership will add Memory Stick and audio-visual technologies to the Palm OS that will be available to other Palm OS licensees, the companies said. Sony's self-explanatory Memory Stick allows information to be stored and exchanged between compatible devices.