{"id":5350,"date":"2010-04-29T15:15:32","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T20:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=5350"},"modified":"2011-01-20T14:32:17","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T19:32:17","slug":"palm-bought-by-h-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/04\/29\/palm-bought-by-h-p\/","title":{"rendered":"Palm bought by H-P"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-5354\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/04\/Palm-Pre1-150x150.png\" alt=\"Palm Pre\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Struggling smart-phone pioneer Palm Inc., unable to keep up with Apple&#8217;s iPhone or RIM&#8217;s Blackberry,\u00a0is <a title=\"bought out\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/04\/28\/AR2010042804072.html\" target=\"_blank\">being bought <\/a>out by Hewlett-Packard for around $1.4 billion in cash.\u00a0 School of Management Professor <a title=\"N. Venkat Venkatraman\" href=\"http:\/\/smgnet.bu.edu\/mgmt_new\/profiles\/VenkatramanN.html\" target=\"_blank\">N. Venkat Venkatraman<\/a>, chair of the Information Systems Department, says he has his doubts if H-P CEO Mark Hurd can make this bet pay off.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;But if he can develop a series of devices (netbooks, smartphones and other devices) using Palm WebOS, then H-P could emerge as a serious competitor to Apple, Google, Nokia, RIMM and Microsoft. &#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact N. Venkat Venkatraman, 617-353-7117, <a href=\"mailto:venkat@bu.edu\">venkat@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Struggling smart-phone pioneer Palm Inc., unable to keep up with Apple&#8217;s iPhone or RIM&#8217;s Blackberry,\u00a0is being bought out by Hewlett-Packard for around $1.4 billion in cash.\u00a0 School of Management Professor N. Venkat Venkatraman, chair of the Information Systems Department, says he has his doubts if H-P CEO Mark Hurd can make this bet pay off. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[1119,2756,720,669,2757,2754,2755],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5350"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5350"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7766,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5350\/revisions\/7766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}