1. Video: Palm launches new OS, phone  permalink

Video: Palm launches new OS, phone
CNET

Palm is trying to relight its fading star with a brand-new operating system, WebOS, and a new smartphone model, the Pre, launching later this year on Sprint. The combination looks compelling, and if anything can bring Palm back to the front lines in the smartphone market, it's these new products. Rafe Needleman interviews Ina Fried on the Palm ...

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Video: Palm launches new OS, phone Palm Unveils Its iPhone Rival: The Pre. Don’t Expect to Buy One Cheap.   —  Palm used to own the smartphone market, but now it’s barely hanging on amid competition from Research In Motion’s (RIMM) BlackBerry line and Apple’s iPhone. Today the company unveils its long-awaited comeback plan: Nova “Palm Web OS,” an operating system the company has been working on for some two years. Will it be ...

Adrian Covert / Gizmodo
Video: Palm launches new OS, phone Live: Palm Keynote   —  In a few moments, we will see the fruits of the Palm team's many months of labor, and the Palm fan's answer to what the Post-Treo revolution looks like. Updates. It's a lot for them to live up to, but we're resetting our expectations and approaching the lagging company's new model line with an open mind. We're guessing we'll see a brand new phone,

2. Five useful places to find financial data online  permalink

Five useful places to find financial data online
Don Reisinger / Webware.com

I spend a considerable amount of time perusing financial sites for data that impacts a respective company's financial statements. Because of that, I've developed a liking for certain sites, and a severe distaste for others that have no business providing information to anyone. But it's the great that I'm highlighting today. And in the following ...

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Five useful places to find financial data online Google SEC Filing Fuels Speculation   —  As internet marketers we tend to concentrate on Google and its product set. Makes perfect sense considering Google is the undisputed King of the Online World. What’s interesting to see is what Google does as a business. The Yahoo! news site ran an Associated Press story that says the AP ‘obtained’ a copy of the regulatory [...]

Mike / Searchnewz
Five useful places to find financial data online Yahoo! Sets 90 Day Data Policy - Does Google Care?   —  It seems like Yahoo! is going around in circles at the moment, with the once mighty search engine and portal unsure how to resurrect its corporate lustre. The PR team have just announced a new data retention policy which they claim, "sets an industry-leading approach to user data privacy"... Yahoo! Sets 90 Day Data Policy - Does Google Care? ..." ...

3. 3DVU announces Way2Go 3D mobile mapping  permalink

3DVU announces Way2Go 3D mobile mapping
CNET

Watch out, Google Maps for Mobile. One company thinks it has a better 3D navigational experience for Symbian and Windows Mobile phones.

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First Version of Skype Now Available for Intel-based Mobile Internet Devices   —  First, complete communications client for MIDs supports voice and video calls, IM LAS VEGAS (CES BOOTH: HILTON #5121), January 8, 2009 -- Skype today announced the availability of Skype™ 1.0 Beta for Intel-based Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs). This new version of Skype software is the result of working with Intel Corporation to develop a new ...

Sascha Segan / Gearlog
3DVU announces Way2Go 3D mobile mapping CES 2009: Hands-On With LG's Mobile DTV   —  Free mobile TV is real, it's on the floor at CES, and ... it works like TV. At LG's booth at this year's CES, the company was showing off several devices with the new Mobile DTV standard. Two of them looked a lot like the existing LG Vu and LG Voyager phones; two were netbooks with LG TV dongles plugged into USB ports; and the last was a ...

4. Fake CNN site from phishing e-mail hides a Trojan  permalink

Fake CNN site from phishing e-mail hides a Trojan
CNET

RSA discovers phishing e-mail that leads to bogus CNN site with Trojan designed to steal sensitive data.

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CNN: Zimbabwe demands $36,000 fee from journalists   —  CNN reports that the Zimbabwean government is demanding that foreign journalists pay a combined annual licence fee of $36,000 to practice journalism in its country. This appears to be supported by a story in the Zimbabwe Times. Full story… Similar Posts: NUJ calls for investigation into death of photojournalist Richard Mills Journalism in ...

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Fake CNN site from phishing e-mail hides a Trojan CNN.com Live to Team with Facebook for Inauguration   —  During the Inauguration of Barack Obama on Tuesday, Jan. 20, CNN.com Live users will be able to update their own Facebook status directly from the CNN.com Live player; and also see status updates from their friends and other Facebook users on CNN.com Live. On Facebook, the status updates for those using CNN.com Live will be published in their ...

5. Learn how to play guitar in your browser  permalink

Learn how to play guitar in your browser
Josh Lowensohn / Webware.com

Apple's Macworld announcement about professional and celebrity music instruction as part of Garageband '09 may have been impressive, but what might be a little more eye catching (and ultimately useful) is iPerform3D . This browser-based music learning system shows users how to play guitar in 3D, and works on both Macs and PCs. iPerform3D eschews ...

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Learn how to play guitar in your browser Finally, Guitar Hero for Actual Guitar   —  LAS VEGAS -- As popular as Guitar Hero and Rock Band are, the games elicit winces from some musicians who've taken the time to learn to play instruments rather than their plastic imitations. Thanks to a partnership between Disney and...

6. Skype thrives amid tough economy  permalink

Skype thrives amid tough economy
CNET

The Internet telephony provider may be one of the only technology companies experiencing a boom as the economy tanks.

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Skype thrives amid tough economy Thursday Evening Links -   —  Broadband Bullies Shouldn't Benefit From Stimulus huffingtonpost.com Firm Pairs DSL and Cable Lines for Super Fast Broadband yahoo.com IEEE Confirms Baseline for BPL Standard cable360.net Skype thrives amid tough economy cnet.com Vietnamese government mandates Open Source theinquirer.net Sony DSC-G3, a WiFi Camera with a Web Browser ubergizmo. ...

7. Answers to burning Palm Pre questions  permalink

Answers to burning Palm Pre questions
CNET

Here's the stuff they didn't mention during the keynote, including whether there will be a GSM version.

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Answers to burning Palm Pre questions I´ve been WOWED! Palm Pre = Awesome!   —  [From Mauricio Tanzi Costa Rica] Hi Sammy! Hope you´re as excited as I am about the new Palm Pre and best of all about the new OS. I want one (please unlocked GSM!) I just saw the live blogging and felt like a child staring at the sea for the first time. I really like my iPhone 3g a lot and now I want to trade it for this shiny new gadget on ...

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Answers to burning Palm Pre questions A closer look at the Palm Pre and webOS   —  Electronista has taken a closer look at the Pre smartphone unveiled at CES. The device is noticeably smaller in person than it seems in previous images. Despite the smaller screen, the display still appears crisp and vivid. The company matched the 48...

8. Obama: Delay Digital TV Switch  permalink

Obama: Delay Digital TV Switch
Www.washingtonpost.com

President-elect Barack Obama's transition team today asked key members of Congress to consider delaying the nation's switch to digital television scheduled for Feb. 17, saying there is "insufficient support" for the problems consumers will experience during the shut-off of analog signals.

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Delay Digital TV Transition? NOT! Dramatic action   —  "The time has come to build a 21st century economy in which hard work and responsibility are once again rewarded," President-elect Obama said in a speech this morning, making the case for urgent action on an American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan. The plan will save or create 3 million jobs by doubling the production of alternative energy; ...