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

To: KevRupert who wrote (3976)	3/2/2001 10:38:27 AM
From: Mang Cheng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6784

Re:"Will cited a study by BCN, a news service run by Computer News Inc, which said that more than half of the handheld computers in Japan were based on Palm's operating system, which is also available in Japanese." This must be the biggest endorsement of the Palm OS. We all know the Japanese market is extremely competitive with so many entrenched players. PDAs like Palm are very suitable for the Japanese or Chinese markets because the languages of these are written character by charcter, and it's easy to squeeze a whole article onto the screen. Whereas the Western languages are more elongated and variable in length so there are too much wasted white spaces to the margin. Mang

To: KevRupert who wrote (3976)	3/2/2001 9:53:36 PM
From: KevRupert	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6784

New Palm 'imminent' - 3/6/01 theregister.co.uk "Palm is set to announce a new handheld, a more powerful version of its entry-level m100 model, destined to replace the IIIxe. And we've just heard from Register readers that UK computer supplier Misco has the new machine in its latest catalogue. We haven't seen it ourselves, but the catalogue apparently claims the device will be out on 6 March. The details are on page 15, we're told. Reports suggest that the new Palm, dubbed m105, will have 8MB of memory, as opposed to just 2MB. It is expected to have a cradle to synchronise with a PC rather than a cable connector..."