(L to R) Denny Strigl, President and CEO of Verizon Wireless, Bill Gates, Chairman and Chief Software Architect of Microsoft Corporation and Ed Colligan, President and CEO of Palm, Inc announce an alliance of the three companies during a press conference in San Francisco on Sept 26. Former rivals Microsoft and Palm teamed up with Verizon to release a new TREO smart phone that will run on Microsofts operating system, marking the first time Palm has employed a platform other than its own.
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