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Palm To Purchase Be's IP

There's been a lot of rumours swirling around an imminent buyout of Be's IP given their current cash situation. But I wouldn't have thought of Palm as a potential suitor - but a story in the subscription only area of today's WSJ indicates it to be true. Hopefully a non-pay service will get the story soon - but looks like Palm is trying to beef up its software side, and wants to get some Be's engineers.Update: 08/16 02:16 PM by H :Looks like C|Net has the details - 11 million USD in Palm stock for the purchase of Be.

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    1. Re:I'm rocking the slashdot! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      What song is that to? The Clash's Rock the Casbah?

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  2. fresh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    turd.

    get it in ya!

  3. Impressive news! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Niggers are not human.

    And now back to our regularly scheduled self-masturbatory geek egofest.

  4. Palm to purchase be by who? by Giant+Hairy+Spider · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Strange is grammer or name article of slashdot. Hurt the my is this by brain.

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  5. Re:This makes a strange sense. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Look ma, it's a karma whore!

  6. Re:BeIA was the likely target by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'd just like to take this time to give a special shout out to my balls.

  7. w00h00 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  8. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    or not

  9. Re:Gotta be for Palm OS 5.0... by Refrag · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Do we even know that Palm will be keeping on the Be employees? All the articles really talk about is Palm buying Be's IP. They gave brief lip service to the fact that Gassee (sp?) will help in the transition of technology.

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  10. fuck palm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    handspring rules... better yet, just get an ipaq... wince baby

  11. Re:Palm running BE OS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Feel my skill, donkey donkey, donkey donkey donkey!