Companies like Sony and Microsoft are typically the ones to gather the biggest crowds at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. This year, however, a lot of anticipation centered on Palm, a company that pioneered the concept of the PDA and the smartphone, but has more recently endured a streak of lousy sales, few new or exciting devices, and the unfortunate embarrassment of an aborted product. What it managed to come up with for CES was expected to be an indication of whether Palm would sink or swim.
