ctivnan
10/27/07, 07:48 AM
from Business Week
Palm Barks Up the Right Tree
Palm:
Palm, Inc., a global firm based in Sunnyvale, California, that produces smartphones and hand-held electronic devices.
barks up the right Treo:
This is a play on the idiom "to bark up the wrong tree," which means to follow he wrong course of thought or action. The headline says that Palm has done the right thing (by producing an improved product, the Treo).
Treo:
the name of a brand of smartphones produced by Palm.
In simple English:
Palm has followed the right course of action with its new Treo.
Business Spotlight, September-October 2006, p.32.
Palm Barks Up the Right Tree
Palm:
Palm, Inc., a global firm based in Sunnyvale, California, that produces smartphones and hand-held electronic devices.
barks up the right Treo:
This is a play on the idiom "to bark up the wrong tree," which means to follow he wrong course of thought or action. The headline says that Palm has done the right thing (by producing an improved product, the Treo).
Treo:
the name of a brand of smartphones produced by Palm.
In simple English:
Palm has followed the right course of action with its new Treo.
Business Spotlight, September-October 2006, p.32.