Palm Talking Collaboration with Sony

Palm CEO Carl Yankowski revealed yesterday that Palm is in talks with Sony Corp. for possible collaboration on new products: ``We are in a dialogue with Sony to see if there is any overlap in those areas.'' Sony is already a licensee of the Palm OS but the relationship was thrown into doubt recently when Sony announced that it had licensed the EPOC OS to use in its next generation of smart phones. Mr. Yankowski's statement was probably intended to convince investors that Palm is still on good terms with the electronics giant.

At the same meeting, Mr. Yankowski repeated his company's plan to release wireless clip-on devices for all Palm handhelds. No further details were released.