PalmSource, Inc. recently announced the completion of its acquisition of China MobileSoft (CMS). CMS is a leading Chinese mobile phone software company with business operations headquartered with its wholly owned subsidiary, MobileSoft Technology (Nanjing), in China. CMS provides mobile device manufacturers and original design manufacturers (ODM) complete, integrated software platforms and user-friendly applications for the Chinese market. CMS currently has 10 licensees shipping CMS software on over 30 phone models in China.
The combination of Palm OS and CMS's software products is expected to enable PalmSource to provide one of the broadest lines of mobile software in the industry, powering mobile phones at all price points in all regions of the world. Over time, PalmSource expects to leverage the work CMS has done with Linux to provide a new version of Palm OS based on Linux. The Company will continue to support the Palm OSŪ Garnet and Palm OSŪ Cobalt operating system software lines.
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