GO Corporation was founded in 1987 to create portable computers, an operating system, and software with a pen-based user interface. It was famous not only for its pioneering work in pen-based computing but as well as being one of the most well-funded start-up companies of its time.
Though the company enjoyed high levels of public awareness and generally positive attention from industry press, it ran into fierce competition, first from Microsoft (...
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GO Corporation was founded in 1987 to create portable computers, an operating system, and software with a pen-based user interface. It was famous not only for its pioneering work in pen-based computing but as well as being one of the most well-funded start-up companies of its time.
Though the company enjoyed high levels of public awareness and generally positive attention from industry press, it ran into fierce competition, first from Microsoft (whose Pen Services for Windows were later the subject of an FTC investigation and patent violation suits by GO), and later from Apple's Newton project, and others. The company lined up software development partners but struggled to deliver hardware and software on their intended schedule. In 1991, they spun off their hardware unit under the name EO Inc., and in 1993 EO was acquired by AT&T;, who hoped that its devices would showcase their AT&T; Hobbit microprocessors. This sale raised much-needed cash but introduced new problems, as EO then...
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