In his letter to me today, Ed Colligan claimed that “Jeff Hawkins and I still believe that the market category defined by Foleo has enormous potential”.

This morning I got a letter in my inbox from Ed Colligan, the CEO of Palm. who doesn’t normally write to me. It turned out that he was writing to all those people who had asked to be kept informed about the launch of the Foleo, Palm’s secret “third business” come to life.

In August 2005, Jeff Hawkins, the inventor of the Palm Pilot and the Treo smartphone, claimed that Palm had a “secret third business”. Since then he has single-handedly redefined neuroscience through some personal research that culminated in a book On Information and the founding of a new company Numenta. Now he has given an interview to PalmAddicts, in which he ties these together, and promises a big announcement sometime this year.