Peter Burrows, Senior Writer, BusinessWeek

Palm's Secret Weapon for the Pre

March 25, 2009 at 12:01 am PT

As recently as late 2008, Pandora Networks’ Chief Technology Officer Tom Conrad still had big doubts about the prospects for smartphone maker Palm (PALM). In November, Conrad was among a coterie of software developers invited to Palm headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif., to take an early, up-close look at an operating system for use in the company’s phones. “I was totally skeptical when I walked in,” says Conrad, who met Palm execs along with representatives of MySpace, Intuit (INTU), movie site Fandango, and Epocrates, a maker of mobile software for physicians.

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