According to a recent report in Reuters, PalmSource Inc said on Wednesday it is in talks with Chinese mobile phone maker Ningbo Bird and an arm of TCL about licensing its Palm operating software for handheld devices.

The company is currently keeping its plans very close, however. "We're talking but it's very early in those discussions. We're not close to announcing anything," PalmSource President and Chief Executive David Nagel told Reuters on the sidelines of the ATRE 2004 technology conference in Shanghai.