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Palm, Incorporated is an American convergence device manufacturer based in Sunnyvale, California that is most famous for its namesake Palm Personal Digital Assistants, or PDAs. The firm started out as a computing company back in 1992, having been founded by three IT industry veterans. Palm's first product was to have been a PDA called the Zoomer, manufactured by the company but sold and marketed by Tandy through its electronic appliance and retail stores, with an operating system from Geoworks, famous for GEOS on the Commodore 64. The Zoomer was not a success, but Palm managed to survive by making software for operating systems by other companies.
The corporation began as a computing company back in the year 1992, founded by 3 computer industry veterans. Its first product was to have been a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) called the Zoomer, manufactured by the company and sold and marketed by Tandy through its electronic appliance and retail stores, with an operating system from Geoworks, famous for GEOS on the Commodore 64. The Zoomer was not a success, but the company itself managed to survive by making software for operating systems by other companies.
In 1995, U.S. Robotics Corporation acquired the company and in 1997 turned it into a 3Com subsidiary, since U.S. Robotics itself was acquired by 3Com. Not satisfied with the way things were turning out, the company's founders left to start up Handspring - which will figure into their history once again at a later date. In the meantime, 3Com made it an independent subsidiary, and publicly traded on NASDAQ from March of 2000. Unfortunately, the infamous Dot-Bomb market crash left the shares at a mere $6.50 each only two years later.
In the latter half of 2003, the hardware division of the company merged together with Handspring, and was renamed palmOne, Inc.; the company trademark became the property of a jointly owned holding company. However, in the second half of 2005 the company name went back to the simpler name they are known for today, Palm.
The intervening years until 2007 saw many different product launches and corporate restructuring. Thus rumors were floating around about a possible sale, until it was announced in June 2007 that they had formed a strategic partnership with a private equity firm that purchased 25 percent stakes in the company. The company left the PDA market a little over a year later to concentrate on smartphone mobile devices, which typically feature many, if not all, of the traditional PDA functions such as daily planners. The company is betting on its exclusive smartphone with specific cell phone provider, which was released recently to the crowds.
There is a legal dispute between the company and another well known organization. The new phone is able to sync up with a program which plays MP3's but the program is only meant to be linked up with products from the same company. The rival company promptly released a mandatory software update for the program that prevents the phone access, which generated another successful attempt by the company to engineer access.
Article by Paul Wise, who has done extensive research on Palm. For Unlocked Cell Phones such as Palm Treo Cell Phones of any kind, visit Cell2Get.com.
Operating System History
I think the mark of a true geek is someone who can actually partake in a meaningful conversation relating to a technology which was pioneered half a decade before they were even born. This realisation comes after yours truly found himself today discussing the old CP/M Operating System with our web guy and the PC techie.
The trip down memory lane got me thinking that perhaps it would be nice to remind ourselves of the path we have walked to have become unfortunate enough to end up with Windows as the most popular choice of Operating System.
CP/M – Created back in 1976, this command line based Operating System was developed to provide 8-bit computer users with an easier way of managing the most basic of computer functions, as well as installing and programming applications. It would be fair to say that the younger MS-DOS was very closely based on CP/M and indeed many of the Operating System structures and commands were retained.
DOS – Of course, there were in fact several different flavours of DOS available from various vendors but MS-DOS was the one that was used by most. Released in 1981, Microsoft continued to develop this Operating System right up until the release of Windows 95, at which point it was phased out. DOS was a command based Operating System without any form of graphical interface which remained popular even after the introduction of Windows due to the fact that not only was it faster and less hardware intensive but also that it was actually required as a base for Windows to run on top of. Up until Windows 95, your computer would load itself in to DOS by default and those that wanted to use Windows would actually have to load it on top of MS-DOS as a secondary Operating System.
GEOS – This remarkably compact Graphical Operating System was originally designed for the Commodore 64; a machine with just 64k of RAM and a 1 MHz processor. Released in 1986 by a company called Berkeley Softworks, GEOS went on to become the third fastest selling Operating System in the world at one stage. Despite the ridiculously miniscule system requirements, GEOS was a nippy Operating System which looked very similar to MacOS which ran on a machine costing ten times the price.
OS/2 – Originally a joint venture between IBM and Microsoft in 1987, at one point Microsoft publically insisted that OS/2 was the future and technically speaking, it was superior. Microsoft however managed to bundle Windows 3.0 with many new PC's (a tactic they have been able to continue up through the years) and as such OS/2 become considered an expensive alternative. Unsurprisingly, the marriage between the two companies hit the rocks and despite IBM soldering on until 2001, OS/2 never managed to enjoy the success that Windows had.
AmigaOS – I truly think that the Amiga OS deserves to be remembered as one of the most revolutionary Operating Systems in history and to me it represents a remarkable technology that it took years for Windows to catch up with. The AmigaOS which was initially introduced back in 1985 for the Commodore Amiga line of machines and not only was it nippy, stable and incredibly fully featured but it also included support for multitasking; something that we take for granted nowadays but was the holy grail of computing back then. Unfortunately financial issues at Commodore led to bankruptcy which largely resulted in development on the Amiga platform being abandoned.
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Will there be any games on the Playstation Store from Sega's Dreamcast or Game Gear ?
What about games from the old Turbo Grafx-16/Turbo Grafx CD, SNK's Neo Geo. Commodore 64 and Atari !
It would be nice if that could happen but it's tricky at best ! I know on the Wii there's games from those consoles so I'm not sure if Sony wants that for the PS3 since they so adamantly seem against PS2 games running on the PS3 even though PS1 games play !
* The Death of GEOS? *
This is a painful article to write. I've been a longtime fan and user of what is affectionately known as PC/GEOS over the years. However, I'm fearing we're nearing the end of GEOS. Read more on this exclusive OSNews article...
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