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Technology Stocks : PALM - The rebirth of Palm Inc. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Joe S Pack who wrote (2237)	10/19/2000 6:32:40 PM
From: Joe S Pack	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6784

This is how MafiaSoft tried bribing PALm faithfuls. An interesting and a wake up call to PALM management. They should keep permanent vigil on this slimy company. -Nat dailynews.yahoo.com Thursday October 19 06:15 PM EDT Palm faithful: Can't buy Pocket PC love By Richard Shim, ZDNet News What was meant as an event to introduce influential Palm users to Microsoft's Pocket PC platform came across to some as little more than a thinly veiled bribe. It was billed as an innocuous product demo -- some three dozen influential Palm enthusiasts were invited to Microsoft Corp.'s (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) Redmond, Wash., campus for a demonstration of the latter's Pocket PC-based devices, at an event called the "Pocket PC Wireless and Beyond." But what they walked away with was more than $1,400 worth of Pocket PC booty, including two PDAs -- the Compaq iPaq H3650 and Hewlett Packard 540 -- leaving some to wonder if they weren't being bribed. "A cheap tactic," one attendee called it. .... ..