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Palm, Inc. is a Personal Digital Assistant manufacturer responsible for popular products such as the Zire , Tungsten PDAs , Treo Smartphone s and the LifeDrive . Previous product lines include the Palm Pilot , Palm III, Palm V and Palm VII. While most of their devices run Palm OS , a recent edition of the Treo runs Windows Mobile . Palm Computing, Inc. was founded in 1992 by Jeff Hawkins , Donna Dubinsky , and Ed Colligan , later co-inventors of the Palm Pilot. The company was started to create a PDA for consumers, called the Zoomer. The devices were manufactured by Casio and marketed by Tandy , while Palm provided the PIM software. The Zoomer failed commercially, but Palm managed to survive through selling synchronization software for HP devices, and the Graffiti Handwriting Recognition software for the Apple Newton MessagePad. The company was acquired by U.S. Robotics Corp. in 1995 . In June 1997 , Palm became a subsidiary of 3Com when U.S. Robotics was acquired by 3Com. In June 1998 the founders became unhappy at the direction in which 3Com was taking the company, they left and founded Handspring . 3Com made the Palm subsidiary an independent, Publicly Traded Company on March 2 , 2000 , and it was traded on the NASDAQ under the Ticker Symbol PALM. In , palmOne launched its new name and brand reverting to Palm, Inc. and trading under the ticker symbol PALM once again. On January 4 2006 Palm released the Palm Treo 700w , the first Windows Mobile -powered Treo in a partnership with Verizon and Microsoft . Current Palm OS products come with many free programs such as a suite called Documents to Go which allows the user to view PowerPoint files and modify Word and Excel files. A premium version of this software can be purchases which allows the user increased functionality. Palm's Windows Mobile product (The Treo 700w) comes with Excel, PowerPoint, and Word Mobile editions which are part of Microsoft's Windows Mobile 5.0 edition. LIST OF PDA MODELS Current models Discontinued models The following PDAs are no longer in production. SEE ALSO
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