Ever so slightly, Microsoft enlarged its handhold in the handheld market during the second quarter. Devices based on the software giant's Pocket PC operating system made a small gain against the Palm OS during the quarter, according to a new report released on Monday by Dataquest, a unit of market researcher Gartner. But each operating system camp felt the pinch from declines in unit shipments from Palm and Handspring and from the consolidation of Hewlett-Packard and Compaq Computer.
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