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Offline sam

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HP is Palm's Silicon Valley savior in $1.4B deal (Update)
« on: April 29, 2010, 05:57 »
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Palm Inc. a pioneer in the smart phone business that couldn't quite make the comeback it needed, has agreed to be bought out by Hewlett-Packard Co. for about $1.4 billion in cash.

http://www.physorg.com/news191690736.html
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Re: HP is Palm's Silicon Valley savior in $1.4B deal (Update)
« Reply #1 on: April 30, 2010, 09:58 »
Palm is never one I took much interest in.
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Re: HP is Palm's Silicon Valley savior in $1.4B deal (Update)
« Reply #2 on: April 30, 2010, 10:01 »
I got one free when they first launched. :)
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Re: HP is Palm's Silicon Valley savior in $1.4B deal (Update)
« Reply #3 on: April 30, 2010, 10:17 »
Why?
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Re: HP is Palm's Silicon Valley savior in $1.4B deal (Update)
« Reply #4 on: April 30, 2010, 10:22 »
Sysops at Compuserve were issued with them. It's good PR, if we liked them, our members got told. That's why we got free AV software too.
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Re: HP is Palm's Silicon Valley savior in $1.4B deal (Update)
« Reply #5 on: April 30, 2010, 11:11 »
So, why can't I have a free Desire?  :bawl:
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Re: HP is Palm's Silicon Valley savior in $1.4B deal (Update)
« Reply #6 on: April 30, 2010, 11:15 »
Not enough PR to be had. CI$ was different because it was a very large community and world wide.
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Re: HP is Palm's Silicon Valley savior in $1.4B deal (Update)
« Reply #7 on: April 30, 2010, 11:17 »
We're world wide!  We have spammers from all over the place!  ;)
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Re: HP is Palm's Silicon Valley savior in $1.4B deal (Update)
« Reply #8 on: April 30, 2010, 11:18 »
 ;D

But not several million active members all paying to be here. Sadly. ;)
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Re: HP is Palm's Silicon Valley savior in $1.4B deal (Update)
« Reply #9 on: April 30, 2010, 11:20 »
I knew we'd gone wrong somewhere. 
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Re: HP is Palm's Silicon Valley savior in $1.4B deal (Update)
« Reply #10 on: April 30, 2010, 11:23 »
 ;D
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