The Palm acquisition had nothing to do with being in the smartphone business. Hurd said that the company isn't going to "spend billions of dollars trying to go into the smartphone business; that doesn't in any way make any sense." Read more at ZDNet <http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/hp-ceo-mark-hurd-talks-datacenters-networ\ king-and-palm/35312> . via Precentral <http://www.precentral.net/hp-ceo-we-didnt-buy-pal-mto-be-smartphone-bus\ iness> and Engadget <http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/hp-ceo-we-didnt-buy-palm-to-be-in-th\ e-smartphone-business/> .
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