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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

Be Inc. completes takeover of Palm

Belatedly, a link to an Andrew Orlowski story in The Register, which points out that Be has taken over Palm in much the same way that NeXT took over Apple. By the way, Steve Sakoman used to work for JLG at Apple Computer. It was Sakoman who spurned Go Corp, the real pioneers of handheld computing, and who chose the name Newton for what turned out to be one of the most disastrous projects at a company where disasters have been a way of life.

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