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2 Years Later, HP's Botched Palm Acquisition Still Stings

If the creative force behind webOS still regrets turning over his brainchild to HP, imagine how bad HP must feel over having squandered more than a billion dollars. "I agree with Rubinstein -- HP killed a very good OS and one that was very forward-looking for its time," said tech analyst Trip Chowdhry. "WebOS offered many of the features that came later in iOS and Android.
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Best Buy Clears Floor Space for New Windows Shops

Best Buy may need more than a breath of fresh air to survive, but it will at least get that much by opening a whole lot of Windows Stores inside its stuffy big boxes. The shops will show off Microsoft's own branded products, plus those of manufacturers that run Windows on their hardware. Shoppers get to see items that otherwise would be out of reach, and Best Buy gets -- it hopes -- more sales.
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		Re: IBM Discloses 15,000 Layoffs	2	Horus	2002-08-14 16:14:46
		Re: Raise a Toast to the Stubborn	3	jpivonka	2002-08-14 15:26:45
		Re: AOL Uses Netscape for Mac OS X	2	ANTMAX	2002-08-13 13:21:39
		Re: Multichannel Players: The E-Tail Shakeout Survivors	2	Bonefish99	2002-08-12 16:25:45
		Re: What's Wrong with Quarterly Reports?	2	kathleen.mccahill	2002-08-07 13:52:35
		Re: Analysts Applaud HP-Compaq Merger	2	kathleen.mccahill	2002-08-07 13:20:06
		Re: Amazon Jumps on Web Services Bandwagon	2	mmunro	2002-08-07 07:47:51
		Re: Cruising Memory Lane in the Webvan	2	pogborn	2002-08-05 19:33:31
		Re: Can Fun Still Sell E-Commerce?	2	mark_friedman	2002-08-02 13:46:03
		Re: Yahoo! Cashes In On eBay's Outage	2	syzygy	2002-08-02 01:33:01
		Re: Phase Two for E-Commerce	2	azell	2002-08-01 18:05:10
		Re: IBM Grabs PwC Consulting for $3.5B	2	Horus	2002-07-31 15:41:20
		Re: Dude, You're Not Getting a Dell	5	esrever_otua	2002-07-31 01:03:57
		Re: Can Microsoft Beat Its Image Problem?	4	Sheumack	2002-07-23 12:08:17
		Re: Bare-Bones E-Commerce Versus Bells and Whistles	4	bitmonkey	2002-07-23 08:58:50
		Re: Study: Web Security Spending To Surge	3	faelyne	2002-07-22 17:12:09
		Re: Federated Buys Fingerhut for $1.7 Billion	2	barbara50	2002-07-22 13:48:28
		Re: Auctions Top Online Fraud Complaints	3	JackBenimble	2002-07-22 11:19:21
		Re: Wireless Tech Stocks To Watch	2	qquizz	2002-07-21 12:18:17
		Re: The Changing Face of Online Stock Trading	2	rmayer	2002-07-18 17:22:14