News Burst: Sony, Palm team up against Windows CE

Palm and Sony have announced a partnership to develop a new range of wireless consumer electronics devices with audio/visual functionality.

Sony has agreed to license the Palm OS operating system and Palm has committed to supporting Sony's Memory Stick removable storage media as part of the Palm platform. The two companies have also agreed to work on developing a new version of the Palm OS to incorporate other Sony technologies.

The collaboration is another blow for Microsoft's competing Windows CE operating system.

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