HP could kill off Palm smartphones
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Hewlett Packard boss Mark Hurd has revealed that he has no plans to make any new Palm smartphones. HP snapped up the PDA pioneer at the end of April for $1.28 billion and the common consensus was that the computer giant wanted to get into the smartphone market. Now it has emerged that HP has no interest in Palm's hardware business at all, but that the company was acquired for its intellectual property alone. "We didn’t buy Palm to be in the smartphone...
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