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How do you find out what domains are registered to Handspring?

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Wow Miradu, you really are the geek next door. Where do you go to find this info out??

Also, I got the 100th reply to this post! Wee!

**Aww, I got beat to this 100th post by 1 minute. Oh well, make that 101th!

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I thought I explained how I found it. I used the premise, that handspring would be smart enough to buy their domaiin names for their products (cybersquatters == egh!).

I used a base of Pro, and Neo, since those are naems that were confiremd over at the PDAbuzz discussions. They are both regiestered, unlike the Ace and Columbia (And I was finalyl getting used to the Visor ace and Visor columbiua as a name!)

I than did a whois search, found it was netsol. Did a advanced whois search off netsol for Alex Shwartz, and foudn the rest of the domains. http://www.netsol.com/cgi-bin/whois...amp;STRING2.y=8

Notice the large block of names to "Alex Shwartz" 555-1212, 1000 Marketstreet, San Fran, CA. 94118.

The address doesn't exist in the 94118 Zip code. This guys a complete fake, representing handsrping. I'm 100% sure.

As for wireless, that's my educated guess with donna talkign abotu the wireless handheld shes brinign out to her investors..

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Well done, Mike! I forgive you your poor spelling. You must just be a "logic thinks."

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major kudos to Miradu2000-You must be the nightmare for Handspring's PR department-and don't expect a Christmas card from Alex, either

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alex?

I'm not THAT bad for HS PR. well.. maybe.. let me ask HS and see what they think

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Miradu, maybe you can email Alex?

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WHO IS ALEX?!?!?!

oh wait. damn it. god I'm dumb. Alex Shwartz! god my memory sucks..

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WHO IS ALEX?!?!?!

oh wait. damn it. god I'm dumb. Alex Shwartz! god my memory sucks..

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Originally posted by miradu2000
They are both regiestered, unlike the Ace and Columbia (And I was finalyl getting used to the Visor ace and Visor columbiua as a name!)

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I understand. and I trust what you said, but I heard from closer sources to me, that they were actually Neo and Pro, and since Neo and Pro are regestered unlike Ace and Columbia it furthured my assumptions.

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Hmmm. I'm not goign to say I was wrong, but maybe I was a bit mistaken. Check out what google finds, for the existance of an Alex Schwartz. http://www.google.com/search?sa=X&a...,+Schwartz,++CA

Look athte second one fomr the bottom San Fransisco. So I geusss technicly, this could be somebody who didn't want their real phone # or real address on the domain.. *sigh* And his Zip is only one char off.

Let me apologize right here, right now, on the Visorcentral Discussion boards, for calling Alex Schwartz a fake. I am sincerly sorry, and I really thought that this was Handspring. *sigh*

Let me also apologize to the REAL Alex Schwartz right here, for calling you a fake. Please take no offence, as I was only tryign to figiure out how Handspring was running stuff... I got over zealous, and assumed certain things. because of the fake address/phone number it really got me suspisioucs

well, back to the starting board.

and I AM serious abotu what I say. I feel not only bad that I over hyped it, but that my dreams were shattered

*sigh*

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Last edited by miradu on 08-15-2001 at 06:29 AM

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Okay � lets see how far I can stretch this �

I think Ace and Columbia were just smoke screens. Neo and Pro are the real names. And really, if you consider the definition of all four words, they match up �

Ace = champion, top rank, world class
Pro = authority, master, professional

See the similarities between Ace and Pro?

Columbia = New Latin, from Christopher Columbus
Neo = new

See the similarities between Columbia and Neo? Columbia = Columbus = new world!!!

It�s all starting to make sense now. The stars are finally starting to line up!

(I do find the name �Neo� a bit interesting. It does mean �new,� and so I wonder what�s new about this particular Visor? Maybe no more Springboard!!!!!!!).

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Look athte second one fomr the bottom San Fransisco. So I geusss technicly, this could be somebody who didn't want their real phone # or real address on the domain.. *sigh* And his Zip is only one char off.

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It's still possible that Alex Schwartz is a fake. The other 5 entries there are all in California. Maybe by chance they created a fake Alex that lived in SF not realizing that a real alex does also.

Remember folks I said way back at the beginning of the thread that Ace and Columbia were probably just "Codenames"

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When?

Does anyone have an idea/guess when Neo and Pro are going to be released? I presume the anticipated price cuts are to clear inventory, then the new units will be released...

And I can't imagine they'd have the nerve to call one of the new units "Pro" if it didn't have a color screen.

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Re: When?

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Does anyone have an idea/guess when Neo and Pro are going to be released?

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dammit...

just hurry the hell up and tell us about these new units Handspring!

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Originally posted by creole
dammit...

just hurry the hell up and tell us about these new units Handspring!

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Originally posted by dick-richardson
BTW, has anyone thought that maybe Alex Schwartz could be a HS employee?

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If not, he's going to be the luckiest bastard in the world when these devices are announced!

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Originally posted by dick-richardson
BTW, has anyone thought that maybe Alex Schwartz could be a HS employee?

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