Yep but that was early 2002 already.
There won't probably be any new BeOS from Be or Palm, there is OpenBeOS somewhere on the net!
It's even talked to port it to AMIGA :-)
What does Palm do with BeOS?
Well many of the great multimedia features of BeOS will be integrated into PALM OS 6.
As Sony is a major player for PALM development software it has already prototypes :-D