STARFISH SOFTWARE.
STARFISH SOFTWARE Starfish was founded in 1994 by Philippe Kahn, best known for his invention of the camera phone and his most recent company Fullpower Technologies. The founding vision of Starfish was global synchronization and integration of wireless and wireline devices, which translated with the chairman Philippe Kahn Philippe Kahn (born March 16, 1952)[1] is an American technology innovator and entrepreneur, French-born, known as the founder of Borland, a producer of software development tools for as well as Starfish Software, the creator of the first wireless synchronization on the renaming of Borland (Borland Software Corporation, Austin, TX, www.borland.com) A software company founded as Borland International in 1983 by Philippe Kahn. The company is noted for its language and development products. It also popularized the desktop accessory for DOS PCs with its Sidekick program. International, the company he founded: "I really liked that name,
because it means Land of the Deep Forest in ancient Celtic."
(Quoted in The Wall Street Journal, 4/30/98)
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