2 posts and columns on nondisclosure agreement

Four Other Companies Wanted Palm. Who Were They? Lenovo, Dell, Huawei and HTC?

in News on May 17, 2010 at 4:50 am PT

Palm’s last-minute sale to Hewlett-Packard in April wasn’t nearly so last-minute or straightforward as it seemed. A new SEC filing from the company reveals that the buyout was the result of a process that began in February with a list of 24 potential acquirers that was subsequently winnowed down to 16 companies, then to five and finally to three. If HP is one of those five, who were the other four?

Phone SDK NDA DOA

in News on October 1, 2008 at 11:21 am PT

Apple has finally realized that blocking open collaboration among iPhone developers may not be the best approach to iPhone application development. And so this morning it dropped the nondisclosure agreement with which it had hamstrung developers by prohibiting them from discussing iPhone programming and caused no end of consternation in the iPhone dev community.