Good Thinking, Motorola!

In all the coverage of Motorola's acquisition of Good Technology (over the weekend for a reported $500M), no one has remembered that this is the second company acquired to get synchronization technology. That's right, Motorola already bought Starfish in 1998. I think they paid something like $200M for that company (founded by Philippe Kahn). Starfish made something called TrueSync for PDAs. This from a Business Week commentary about Motorola in its August 10 issue of that year: "Thanks to Starfish, Motorola says, phones released within the next 18 months will store addresses, telephone numbers, and other data, just like 3Com Corp.'s (COMS) Palm organizer." I'm still waiting.

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[Jim Forbes]

We're all still waiting Stew. Remember when Good Technology was started and funded to be a HandSpring hardware handmaiden?
Things change very quickly. In an ADD-induced thought, I've wondered whether Moto looked at and passed on Gene Wang's technology-- which he got through the acquisition of Digital Transit, a company I helped bootstrap into DemoMobile in 2000. he bought them right after the show.
Be well,
jim Forbes