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26 Sep
Place your bets now folks! Today’s question is fairly simple: who do you think Bone (from U2 of course) loves most? Is it U2’s official sponsor, RIM, a company with great phones that happens to be pouring in lots of cash in this U2 partnership, or Palm, a company that’s fighting to rise from the dead, in which Bono happens to be currently investing? I know, the question is pretty difficult to answer, and it’s possible that even Bono doesn’t know the real answer.
While U2 is performing in front of thousands of people with RIM’s logo hanging around stadiums and U2 events, Elevation Partners is buying more Palm shares. The investor has purchased 2.2 million shares for $35 million. That means that EP is now controlling 42% of Palm and Bono has an important role in that as EP’s Managing Director and Co-Founder. So what do you think? Palm or RIM?
via mobilitysite
Tags: Bono, Elevation Partners, Mobile News, Palm, Palm, Portable Devices, Research In Motion, RIM, U221 Jan
Palm’s new webOS is quite something. We haven’t touched it yet but our fingers are getting anxious to play with it. Roger MacNamee revealed some interesting but very well hidden features of the OS.
But better than that, it does stuff for you. So when you wake up in the morning, it has taken your calendar — if you ask it to — and downloaded the maps for you whole day, it’s downloaded the wikipedias for the people you’re going to visit and the companies you’re going to see… Why is it on PCs you have to go and do all that?
And when you’re late — get this — when you’re late it — remember, this things has GPS, it has a clock, and it has your calendar. So it not only knows where you are, it knows where you’re supposed to be and when; and so when it realizes you’re going to be late, it says “Hey, not only are you going to be late, but I can take care of it for you. I’ll send an email to your assistant or to the people in the meeting, which would you prefer? And oh, by the way, here’s the map.” This is the beginning of a new wave.
Well how about that? Isn’t that a very convenient phone? And in case you were wondering who Roger Macnamee is then you ought to know he is only behind one of those investors from Elevation Partners, the company that poured $425 million in this Palm project.
via precentral
Tags: Elevation Partners, Mobile News, Mobile Software, Palm, Palm, Roger Macnamee, webOS
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