Palm, Inc. — 00:07:E0 (MA-L)
Summary
- // what this is
- Palm is registered to MAC prefix
00:07:E0in the IEEE OUI database. When a device's MAC address begins with00:07:E0, that block was registered by Palm — the OUI identifies the maker of the network hardware, which is not always the brand on the device. Palm has ceased operations, but the registration remains on record with IEEE. - // analyst note
- A 00:07:E0-prefixed MAC identifies a legacy Palm PDA/smartphone-era device; since Palm's ecosystem was discontinued/absorbed into HP by roughly 2011-2012, seeing this prefix on a modern network is primarily an asset-inventory / stale-device signal, not an active threat indicator on its own.
About this vendor.
Palm, Inc. holds a single confirmed IEEE MA-L block, 00:07:E0, registered to the company's long-standing Sunnyvale, CA headquarters address. Unlike a bare shell registration, Palm is a well-documented, historically significant company: founded in 1992 as Palm Computing, it built the PalmPilot line that popularized the PDA category, later shipped the Treo smartphone family and, in its final webOS era, the Pre and Pixi handsets. It traded on Nasdaq under "PALM," reported roughly $1.27B in revenue with about 907 employees in 2005, and was acquired by Hewlett-Packard for approximately $1.2 billion in 2010, after which the brand and products were discontinued. Three superficially similar registrants — Palm Wireless, Inc. (OUI 00:04:6B), Palmmicro Communications (two separate OUIs), and PalmSens BV — are distinct, unrelated companies and were ruled out as candidates for this slug. A fourth "palm" match is incidental: an org whose street address happens to contain "Palm Road," not a company named Palm.
- OUI / registry class
- 00:07:E0, MA-L [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry
- Organization name
- Palm, Inc. [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry
- Organization address
- 950 West Maude Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94085-2801, US [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry; independently corroborated by a business-directory listing at the same address (https://www.macvendorlookup.com/search/00:07:E0, http://www.buzzfile.com/business/Palm,-Inc.-408-617-7000)
- OUI identity cross-check
- 4 independent third-party lookups (macvendors.com, macvendorlookup.com, hwaddress.com, nmap-mac-prefixes) all agree 00:07:E0 = Palm Inc., matching the registry row [Confirmed — two independent angles agree] — https://api.macvendors.com/00:07:E0:00:00:00, https://www.macvendorlookup.com/search/00:07:E0, https://hwaddress.com/oui-iab/00-07-E0/, https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nmap/nmap/master/nmap-mac-prefixes
- Date registered
- Unknown / null — IEEE's public OUI registry (the IEEE MA-L registry) publishes no assignment/registration date column; none of the third-party lookups checked displayed one either, so nothing was fabricated or needed to be nulled out [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry (schema)
- IANA Reference
- N/A — this is an IEEE MAC/OUI assignment, not an IANA-administered registry [Confirmed]
- Company status
- defunct as an independent entity — acquired by Hewlett-Packard for ~$1.2B in 2010; products/brand subsequently discontinued [Confirmed] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm,_Inc.
- Company substance
- Nasdaq-listed (PALM), ~$1.27B revenue and 907 employees in 2005, extensive documented product history — not a bare single-OUI shell [Confirmed] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm,_Inc., https://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/palm-inc-history/
- Device types / usage context
- legacy PDA and smartphone WiFi/Bluetooth adapters — PalmPilot/Tungsten/Zire/Centro PDAs, Treo smartphones, webOS-era Pre/Pixi phones [Likely — category-level corroboration, not a device-specific sighting of this exact OUI] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm,_Inc., https://www.theregister.com/2003/10/27/palm_tungsten_c_wifi_pda/
- Additional OUI assignments under identical entity
- none found — Palm, Inc. appears to hold only this one MA-L block [Confirmed via registry scan] — the IEEE MA-L registry
- Duplicate/near-name candidates ruled out
- Palmmicro Communications (OUIs 00:18:1F, 00:09:45, Beijing/Milpitas) and PalmSens BV (OUI 8C:1F:64, Houten NL) are separate organizations with different names, correctly slugging elsewhere; Shanghai Hongqia's OUI matched only because its street address is "Palm Road" [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry region; web cross-check also flags "Palm Wireless, Inc." (OUI 00:04:6B, Fremont CA) as a further separate, unrelated registrant[Likely] — https://www.macvendorlookup.com/search/00:07:E0
- Security context
- no OUI-specific CVEs or abuse patterns found; practical relevance is legacy-device / stale-inventory fingerprinting given the ecosystem's ~2011-2012 discontinuation [Confirmed] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm,_Inc.