Palm, the maker of handheld PDAs, just announcede that they will be splitting into two companies. One, PalmOne, will be solely a hardware company while the other, PalmSource, will make software. In some of the worst writing I’ve ever read, C|Net’s Ina Fried says: “Where the biblical King Solomon only threatened to divide a disputed baby in two, Palm has undertaken to actually split its venerable brand in two.” But what can you expect from a company that thought news.com.com was clever?