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Sony CEO Nobuyuki Idei said in an interview in January that the company is interested in purchasing the operating system division of Palm. In an article posted on its Web site on Tuesday, AlwaysOn quoted Idei as saying, “I really want to own either Symbian or Palm — I want to buy them. Three years ago the Palm was so simple, but it is getting better and better.

Sony has invested US$20 million in Palm’s software division, and now owns about 6 percent of the unit, reports Reuters today. Palm said that Sony will expand its business and technical collaboration with PalmSource, Palm’s planned spin-off unit that develops the Palm OS.