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Bloomberg Reports That Palm Is Up For Sale

Posted by timothy on from the handwriting-on-the-wall-is-graffiti dept.

leetrout writes with this excerpt from a story at Bloomberg News "Palm Inc., creator of the Pre smartphone, put itself up for sale and is seeking bids for the company as early as this week, according to three people familiar with the situation."

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  1. First bid by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'd buy that for a dollar!

    1. Re:First bid by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      Hahahaha, you're the same guy come back to explain your joke.

    2. Re:First bid by nacturation · · Score: 3, Funny

      I'm all of the above people... I just forgot to login.

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  2. Re:BeOS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah!

    Now we can have a viable competitor to Hurd!

  3. Re:Google should buy them by i+ate+my+neighbour · · Score: 4, Funny

    I would be happy to see a real Windows Mobile OS pop up

    No thanks, I had enough with the pop ups on their desktop OS.

  4. Re:Too bad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    And it has a real keyboard that pops out.

    Yeah, I heard they had some hardware problems.

  5. Re:No surprise. by tacarat · · Score: 3, Funny

    No feedback to give. I just saw all the *rats and had to say hi.

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  6. Re:BeOS! by edittard · · Score: 4, Funny

    set themselves up piece-meal

    Don't spell piecemeal in a piecemeal way.

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  7. Re:BeOS! by dangitman · · Score: 3, Funny

    AFAIK, Palm still owns BeOS.

    Pfffft. Big deal. I still own BeOS, it even came with a nice book. You don't see me trying to sell myself for millions of dollars.

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  8. Re:All of my Palm is up for sale too! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's a sweet couch man, I'll give you £35 for it!

  9. Re:No surprise. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Is that a Pixi in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?