
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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Gizmodo
Live: Palm Keynote
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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,
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The Palm Pre
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The new-ness is underway, and Palm just debuted its long(est) awaited all-new handset, the Palm Pre. The curvy touchscreen handset has a 3.1-inch 320 x 480 multitouch display, with a silver center button down below and touch sensitivity all down the face -- the lower part is for "gestures." A full QWERTY keyboard slides out from the phone in a ...
MATT RICHTEL
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NYT
Palm Unveils iPhone Competitor, the Pre
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LAS VEGAS Seeking to revive its sharply fallen fortunes and produce a successor to its aging Treo device, Palm on Thursday unveiled a new smartphone, the Pre, and an exclusive partnership with Sprint to distribute it.
Adrian Covert
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Gizmodo
Palm Pre: First Look and Details
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Palm just announced the multitouch Palm Pre smartphone with the completely new Web OS at CES 2009. It's a full touchscreen phone that slides open to reveal a keyboard. It has a 3.1 inch 480x320 screen that slides vertically to reveal a keyboard. The slider action is curved, sort of like the SE Xperia X1. It also has 3MP Camera, LED Flash, EVDO ...
Live.gdgt.com
Live Palm keynote coverage from CES 2009
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This is it for Palm. Today’s launch will either mark the beginning of the company’s second coming — or the beginning of the end. So yeah, you might say expectations are high for Nova and their next-gen hardware — or whatever it is they’re showing off today. But even if Palm pulls out another Faileo, this is going to ...
Joshua Topolsky
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Engadget
Palm Pre in-depth impressions, video, and huge hands-on gallery
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We just sat down with Palm for a more in-depth look at the device, and here are our takeaways. First off, the software and hardware they're showing right now aren't the final versions. They're updating and tweaking as we speak, so some of the features haven't been implemented yet. Our take? Check it all out after the break, along with video, a ...
Chaim
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About Skype
Skype Launches on Android Platform and more than 100 Java-Enabled Mobile Phones
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Updated Beta version of Skype offered for millions worldwide to load onto their mobile phones LAS VEGAS (CES BOOTH: HILTON #5121), January 8, 2009 - Skype today announced the release of a lite version of Skype™, a 'thin' client for Skype that can be downloaded on Android-powered devices, as well as more than 100 other Java-enabled mobile phones.
Www.mobilecrunch.com
“Hands on” with the Palm Pre
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Seeing as everyone in the blogging world is scrambling to get up a Hands-on article on the Palm Pre, I’ll go ahead and say this now: if anyone claims to have gotten a true hands-on, they’re probably lying. We just got back from a post-announcement, closed doors Palm event where a handful of Pres were being demonstrated. While we could ...
Www.newsweek.com
Palm’s New Reach
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You've probably never heard of Jon Rubinstein, but in computer engineering circles, the 52-year-old former Apple engineer is a legend. He helped create two of the most iconic products of the past decade: the original brightly colored egg-shaped iMac, which saved Apple from going out of business, and the iPod, which turned that once-ailing ...
James Kendrick
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JkOnTheRun
Palm Pre pics and grins
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We were all over the Palm keynote and introduction of the Palm Pre smartphone running the new Web OS. We have a few pics we can now share with you from that presentation. We expect to have a hands-on session with the Pre to share soon.
Dean Takahashi
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VentureBeat
CES: Palm speaks out about its quest to reinvent itself
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As Palm introduced the new Palm Pre phone and the Palm Web OS platform today at the CES conference in Las Vegas, its executives told the story of how they hatched the plot to save the company. Jon Rubinstein (left), the former Apple executive who spearheaded the iPod development, had retired from Apple and was living [...]
Greg Kumparak
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MobileCrunch
Palm announces Palm Pre at CES 2009
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At a press announcement today at CES, Palm announced a brand spankin’ new handset: the Palm Pre. Running the much-gossiped new Palm WebOS (Not known as “Nova” afterall) and sporting a QWERTY slide-out keyboard below a 3.1″ touchscreen, this might just be enough to get Palm out of their slump. Here’s what we know so ...
Priya Ganapati
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Wired
New WebOS Is Palm's Secret Sauce
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LAS VEGAS -- With its new Palm Pre phone announced earlier today, troubled phone maker Palm has clearly put itself back into the game. The spotlight is clearly on the slick hardware but Palm is betting its secret sauce, its...
Macworld
CES: New Palm Pre smart phone features touch screen, physical keyboard
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At the Consumer Electronics Show, Palm announced a new operating system running on a new smart phone called the Palm Pre.
Sascha Segan
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Gearlog
CES 2009: Palm Pre to Support App Store, WebKit, Possibly Flash
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I'm here at the Palm Pre VIP lounge at the 2009 CES, where they're serving up delicious coffee drinks and doing demos for developers. I got to ask a bunch of questions that Palm CEO Ed Colligan didn't answer during his Pre press conference , and wanted to pass along the answers. The Pre will have an app store, Palm reps confirmed. They're not ...
Today
New 3G Palm Pre Enters Smart Phone War
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Palm tries to rise from the dead with an innovative new operating system--Web OS--and a handset called the Palm Pre.
Ubergizmo
Live @ Palm Press Conference CES 2009
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[CES 2009] And we’re in, waiting for the Palm Press Conference to begin. The many rows of chairs are being filled up slowly but surely, so stay tuned as we bring you the latest on what Palm has to offer. Plenty of dark chocolates, smart water and function: urban detox drinks for everybody. Everyone surely is looking forward to the Palm Nova –
Ubergizmo
Palm Pre - Palm is Back With a Roar
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Palm is back big time with the Palm Pre. Tune in our live coverage at live.ubergizmo.com . There are a bunch of photos and comments about the physical design, the UI, the web browser and so on... Check it out The bottom-line: Palm has taken a big risk and it paid off. The time of re-hashing the Treo 7xx is over. The UI is awesome, the Pre has a ...
MacNN
Palm launches Pre smartphone, webOS
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Palm at CES launched the Pre (pronounced "pree"), its latest smartphone featuring a touchscreen and slide-out QWERTY keyboard. The device runs on the new webOS operating system which supports third-party app development and takes advantage of the touch interface. It also pushes the high-end of smartphones with a 3-megapixel camera, EVDO Rev. A, Wi-
Ars Technica
Resurrection on video: hands on with the Palm pré
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Ars Technica's Jon Stokes gets a first-look at the new Palm pré announced Wednesday at CES 2009. We talk with a Palm representative and have captured video of the smooth new UI. Read More...
VNU Business Publications
CES: Palm Pre wows CES crowds
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Iain Thomson at CES in Las Vegas, vnunet.com , Thursday 8 January 2009 at 23:31:00 New smartphone could repair Palm's fortunes As expected Palm has unveiled a new smartphone and operating system that it believes outperforms every other smartphone on the market....
USATODAY.com Tech
Palm's new Pre smartphone gets lots of good buzz
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Is Palm up or Palm down? The answer depends on how well consumers receive the slick new Palm Pre smartphone the company introduced ...
Digg.com
The Palm pre
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The new-ness is underway, and Palm just debuted its latest handset, the Palm pre. It's a touchscreen phone with a trackball and a slide-out keyboard.
BetaNews.Com
Photos: Palm's new Pre smartphone takes a few cues from Apple
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In building its Pre, Palm seems to have learned a thing or two from Apple's iPhone. Check out our slideshow of the device and tell us what you think: Is Palm back in the game?
Ars Technica
Palm strikes back with new OS, pré handset at CES
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Palm has released its next-generation handset, called the pré, which features impressive hardware specs and uses a new operating system called webOS that runs HTML/CSS applications. Read More...
Yahoo! News
Palm's new phone and operating system ignite shares
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Reuters - Palm Inc overhauled its mobile operating system and introduced a new touch-screen phone, sending its shares soaring 35 percent as investors hoped the moves can help win back customers from rivals such as Apple Inc .
Yahoo! News
Palm debuts "Pre" smartphone, operating system at CES
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Reuters - Palm Inc took the wraps off its overhauled mobile operating system on Thursday and introduced a touch-screen phone, raising hopes the move can help it win back customers from rivals such as Apple Inc's iPhone.
Priya Ganapati
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Wired Top Stories
Palm Unveils New Smartphone With Web OS
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The sleek, black Palm Pre is no ordinary iPhone clone. Its clean interface has both touchscreen and keyboard inputs and the company touts fast web browsing.
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Bits
For a Palm Rebound, the Phone Is Not Enough
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Palm's future depends on convincing developers to write cool applications for its new smartphone platform, WebOS, instead of the competition.
TG Daily
CES 2009: Palm unveils new smart phone and operating system
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Coverage from the PMA 2008 (January 31 - February 2). Get a first-hand look at JVCs and Samsungs new 1080p camcorders, the wireless SD Eye-Fi card, Delkins Image Router and Panasonics new camcorders.
The Globe and Mail
Palm debuts smart phone, Web OS
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LAS VEGAS Palm Inc. took the wraps off its overhauled mobile operating system Thursday and introduced a touch-screen phone, raising hopes the move can help it win back customers from rivals such as Apple Inc.'s iPhone.
By Matt Richtel
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Bits
Microsoft: Expect Fewer Phones with Windows
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Microsoft says it is responding to the fierce competition in the phone market by retooling and beefing up its mobile operating system–and by putting it on fewer devices.
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PalmAddicts
Palm Unveils All-new webOS. Web-Centric Platform and New Palm Pre Phone to Debut Exclusively on Sprint's Mobile Broadband Network in First Half of 2009
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[From Palm PR] Palm, Inc. (NASDAQ:PALM) today unveiled its groundbreaking Palm(R) webOS(TM) mobile platform, built from the ground up to be constantly connected to the web, and the new Palm Pre(TM), the first phone based on the new platform.(1) Pre is scheduled to be available exclusively from Sprint in the first half of 2009. Palm webOS is a ...
JG Mason
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Gadgetell
Lifting the veil of Palm webOS
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Section: Communications , Cellphones , Smartphones , Mobile Palm unveiled its long-awaited new OS today to eager CES Press. Filled with sync to cloud ideas, the OS does not seem to disappoint. From simple development tools, to ubiquitous connectivity of information, the new OS will power the new Palm Pre, also announced today. Palm webOS is a ...
JG Mason
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Gadgetell
Palm Pre’s linked contacts: why the big deal?
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Section: Communications , Cellphones , Cellular Providers , Email / IM , Mobile This morning Palm rolled out the Palm webOS and Palm Pre. One of the items they focused on was communicating with people, regardless of the medium (email, voice, text, chat, smoke signals). Why is linked contacts such a big deal? Because it is the future. Imagine you ...
EWeek
First Images of the Palm Pre Smart Phone from 2009 CES
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At the 2009 International CES in Las Vegas, Palm rolled out the Palm Pre smart phone as the answer to the Apple iPhone, the RIM BlackBerry Storm and other touch-screen devices that have invaded the market in the past year. The Palm Pre offers a slide-out keyboard in addition to its multitouch screen capabilities. In addition, the Palm Pre offers ...
Digital Trends
The Hardware Behind WebOS: Palm Pre
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While half the buzz at Palm’s Thursday press conference focused on its hot new WebOS operating system, the rest centered on the shiny new phone Palm has cooked up to run its golden child. The Pre, as the next-gen Palm will be called, adopts the full-touch screen interface that many other modern smartphones have tended towards as of late, ...
Fernando Moreno
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PalmAddicts
The palm newness... AWESOME!!
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From the moment I woke up i was so nervous about what palm might show at CES '09, I woke up at 10 a.m. (currently looking for a job), but pacific time was 8 a.m. so... a few hours until palm's conference. I browsed the web for a bit, cleaned a bit my room and so other stuff, finally the time arrived... Palm was about to show a few surprises... ...
Zach Epstein
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Boy Genius Report
Will the Pre and its shiny new webOS be enough to save Palm?
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There you have it folks, the mystery Palm phone and OS are no longer a mystery and the world has now received its first glimpse at Palm’s hopeful savior. First impressions mean everything and for the time being it’s safe to say we were supremely wowed. Seriously, did you ever imagine you’d see the day [...]
MAKE
Alt.CES the Palm Pre & the history of Palm devices...
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Palm introduced a new phone today called the Palm pre, it catches them up to what's out there and looks like a solid phone - there is also a new WebOS for it, I'm going to take a close look at it - but what I think is more interesting is the colorful menagerie of Palm devices starting from 1996. Enjoy the trip down memory lane ... What was your ...
Andru Edwards
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Gear Live
Palm pre photo gallery
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Earlier today Palm introduced us to the handset that they hope will bring them into the future, the Palm pre. We’ve collected a bunch of press shots into our gallery that show off the device quite nicely in our Palm pre gallery. We will have video as well, but for now, check out the stills. What do you think? iPhone killer?
Peter Kafka
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MediaMemo
Palm Unveils Its iPhone Rival: The Pre. Don’t Expect to Buy One Cheap.
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Palm used to own the smartphone market, but now it's barely hanging on. Today the company unveils its long-awaited comeback plan: The Pre, which features an iPhone-like multi-touch screen but also boasts a keyboard. Will it be enough?
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Paul Kedrosky
Palm Pre, Plus Roger and Me
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I don’t do much tech here these days, nevertheless, this is one thing I need to mention. Despite my general Palm bearishness, I have to admit that the new Palm Pre -- sporting a spiffy and seemingly well-designed new o/s -- seems to be rocking the house at CES. Early reviews are highly positive, it looks visually impressive, and the stock is ...
Andru Edwards
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Gear Live
Palm announces the Palm pre
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This morning at CES 2009, Palm announced the phone that they expect will take them into the next generation - the Palm pre. It’s a small, rounded black handset with a trackball, and the specs read like a dream as far as we’re concerned. We are talking about a 3.1-inch 320x480 touchscreen with multi-touch support and a gesture area, the newest ...
By RACHEL METZ
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SFGate
Palm unveils new smart phone, operating system
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Palm Inc. unveiled a new touch-screen smart phone and operating system Thursday, marking its latest attempt to catch up with competition from Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry and Apple Inc.'s iPhone. At the International Consumer Electronics Show, Palm...
Paul Hartsock
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TechNewsWorld
Palm Steals CES Spotlight With New Smartphone and OS
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Companies like Sony and Microsoft are typically the ones to gather the biggest crowds at CES. This year, however, a lot of anticipation centered on Palm, a company that pioneered the concept of the PDA and the smartphone, but has more recently endured a streak of lousy sales, few new or exciting devices, and the unfortunate embarrassment of an ...
Bonnie Cha
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CES
Photos: Palm Pre and Palm Web OS
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Photos: CES 2009: Palm Pre Even before CES 2009 began, Palm created quite a buzz by announcing that it would introduce its new operating system as well as the first device of the family. On opening day of the show, the company finally introduced Palm Web OS and the Palm Pre and crowd was wowed. ...
MobileBurn.com
Palm announces webOS, the Palm Pre's multi-tasking operating system
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Palm has announced webOS, a new multi-touch operating system developed for the Palm Pre. webOS utilizes HTML, JavaScript,and CSS for development. Read the full story here.
MarketWatch.com
Palm debuts new touch-screen phone, operating system
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Palm Inc. introduces a long-awaited new operating system and touch-screen wireless phone following a nearly two-year long restructuring effort designed to revamp the company's product portfolio.
MobileBurn.com
Palm announces multi-touch Palm Pre
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At the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Palm announced the Palm Pre, a multi-touch smartphone. The small, curvy smartphone features a 3.1" touchscreen, 3G EV-DO Rev A. connectivity, built-in GPS, WiFi, and Bluetooth 2.1. Read the full story here.
David Pescovitz
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Boing Boing
The Rap-Up boombox, Palm's last stand, and more from CES
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The Consumer Electronics Show carnage continues over at Boing Boing Gadgets. Above, Lasonic's Rap-Up boombox and Palm's "Hail Mary" smartphone. Boing Boing Gadgets @ CES...
Site.editor
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PC Pro news
Palm announces killer phone
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CES 2009: Palm today announced what promises to be the product that finally matches and even betters the Apple iPhone, and certainly looks to be the most important product announced at this year's Consumer Electronics Show.
EWeek
Palm Leaps into Smartphone Fray
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The Palm Pre, which debuted Jan. 8 at CES in Las Vegas, features a new operating system that leverages several industry-standard technologies, including Web technologies such as CSS, XHTML and JavaScript. The Palm Pre joins the smartphone race alongside Apple's iPhone and Research In Motion's BlackBerry. - Add Palm to the smartphone sweepstakes. ...
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BusinessWeek Online
CES: Palm: Revival of the Fittest?
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I'm sitting in the ballroom at the Venetian Hotel here in Vegas, and you'd think from the crowds with me that we are witnessing the second coming of Apple. It may be the next best thing, though. Palm Executive Chairman Jon Rubinstein, a former Apple alum, just came out to rousing applause as the company attempts to reverse its fortunes with a ...
Bizjournals Technology:General headlines
Palm unveils iPhone, Blackberry competitor
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Palm Inc. on Thursday unveiled the Palm Pre, a smartphone that will compete with Apple Inc.'s iPhone and Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry. (PALM)
Electronista
Sony Ericsson launches two Walkman phones, C510
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Sony Ericsson has staked out a position at CES with three new phone launches. Leading the field, the W715 is an improvement on the older W705 that adds GPS to the Walkman slider and thus support for both turn-by-turn directions and finding points of...
Gordon Kelly
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TrustedReviews Site-wide Feed
CES 2009: Palm Unveils Stunning New OS & Smartphone
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OK, perhaps the most vital keynote for any company at CES in 2009 comes from Palm - a company surely headed only one way (and fast) if it doesn't get this right. We were expecting the company's long overdue new mobile OS and a new touchscreen handset with a sliding physical keyboard. So is it live or die time? I'll tell you what - I think it may ...
Eric M. Zeman
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Phone Scoop
Palm Announces the Pre
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Today Palm announced its next-generation smartphone, the Pre. It is a touch-based phone, that has a 3.1-inch display with 320 x 480 resolution. It has EVDO Rev. A for connectivity, as well as GPS, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.1+EDR with ... (follow link to read)
Peter Ha
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CrunchGear
CES Video: Samsung ships world’s first pico projector enabled cell phone, the Show
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Did I call it or what? This is, at the moment, the first and only mobile phone with TI's DLP pico projector technology. It will ship later this month in Korea but we'll have to wait until later this year to see if Samsung decides to ship it Stateside. As you'll see in the video the device is capable of projecting all sorts of content at a decent ...
Digital Trends
Palm Awes Audiences with WebOS
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Given all the hyperbole, expectations for Palm’s press conference this afternoon were almost impossibly high. But judging by audience reaction, it would seem the struggling company delivered. Read | Permalink | Linking Blogs | Mobile
Techchron
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The Technology Chronicles
CES09: Palm silences doubters with new OS and phone
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With Palm's back up against the wall and all eyes focused on its next move, the Sunnyvale company came out swinging at CES and showed off a new platform and device that look like they will make the...
Arik_hesseldahl
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BusinessWeek Online
Palm Pre Uses Wireless Charger
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Yesterday I told you a little about Powermat , a company that specializes in wireless charging via electromagnetic induction, and which announced plans for products to come later this year. I first wrote about the company and the technology in June of 2007 . Well a big name in the wireless industry just got into the inductive charging business: ...
PC World Latest
Palm Announces WebOS and Pre Phone
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Palm is hoping to get back on track with its new Pre touch phone, which comes equipped with equally new operating system...
SocalTECH.com
Qualcomm Shows Android On Snapdragon Chipset
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San Diego-based Qualcomm is showing Google's Android operating system running on the firm's Snapdragon mobile computing chipsets, the firm said today, at CES in Las Vegas. Qualcomm's Snapdragon chipset is a 1Ghz, DSP-enabled processor specifically focused on 3G mobile devices. According to Qualcomm, the demo shows "tight integration" between the ...
Iain Thomson
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Silicon Valley Sleuth
CES 2009: Palm Power
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Today I did something I haven't done in years - I applauded at a press conference. While there are some journalists who do give the presenter a hand at the end of a press conference I've always eschewed the habit, as I think we're hear to report objectively, not to be cheerleaders. But at the end of the Palm press conference today I clapped and ...
Msnbc.com
Palm debuts "Pre" smartphone, operating system at CES
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Palm Inc took the wraps off its overhauled mobile operating system on Thursday and introduced a touch-screen phone, raising hopes the move can help it win back customers from rivals such as Apple Inc's iPhone.
Earnest Cavalli
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Wired
Video: 'Mac Versus PC' in Paragon City
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City of Heroes recently came to the Mac OS X operating system and to celebrate publisher NCsoft released the above parody of Apple's iconic "Mac versus PC" commercials. Instead of John Hodgman's lovably nebbish "PC" and Justin Long's smug hipster cliché "Mac," the City of Heroes version offers two beings, each fitting the comic book hero and ...
Kristopher
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DailyTech News Feed
Palm Annouces "pre" Smartphone, webOS
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"Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine." -- Bill Gates
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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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Andy Beal
Google SEC Filing Fuels Speculation
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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 [...]
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Searchnewz
Yahoo! Sets 90 Day Data Policy - Does Google Care?
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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? ..." ...
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Searchnewz
Survival Techniques for Yahoo
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Jawad Shuaib wrote a guest post for ReadWriteWeb today called What Yahoo Must Do to Survive, and I thought it was worth some comments as I have some disagreements with it. First, for disclosure purposes, I work for Yahoo! running the product marketing for our display ad platforms. This gives me some internal perspective, but also may leave me ...
Chris Crum
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Top News
Google Testing New AdWords Budgeting Feature
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Google seems to be offering beta testing of a new AdWords budgeting feature called "Timeframe," which allows users to choose between monthly and daily budgeting. Barry Schwartz at Search Engine Roundtable says the beta testing has been confirmed, and points to a WebmasterWorld thread that includes a response from an official Google ...
Search Engine Watch Blog
Google Street View Aids Cops in Finding Missing Child
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We often hear about the bad stuff about Google's Street View on its mapping product. People are concerned about privacy and some have been photographed in a less than flattering light. Google's street view vehicles have also been banned from U.S. military bases . But today Street View is getting some good press by way of a happy ending to a ...
Stan Schroeder
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Mashable!
MySpace and Yahoo on Your TV: Nice, But Why?
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MySpace, Yahoo, and Intel have unveiled a joint plan at CES to offer consumers a way to use their favorite social network directly on the TV . Imagine a tiny application that shows up on TVs and other devices equipped with Intel’s special chipset that enables consumers to access MySpace and interact with their buddies while watching ...
Nate Elliott
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The Forrester Blog For Interactive Marketing Professionals
The Easiest Way to a First-Page Ranking on Google
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[Posted by Nate Elliott] If you're like most interactive marketers, you probably don't think much about search optimizing your online video content. Less than 20% of marketers tell us they insert keywords into the filenames of the videos on their site, and even fewer use more advanced tactics like writing keyword-rich captions and annotations, ...
Search Engine Watch Blog
Yahoo Gets Into the TV Business , While TiVo Gets Into Search
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The news coming out of this year's CES is turning out to be a showcase for the way things are changing for the internet, which in turns affect how people use search (for both searching and marketing). First, Microsoft had its major Live Search announcements . Then, we saw a device with Android to compete with the iPod Touch . But another major ...
Robert Andrews
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PaidContent.org
Google Won't Buy Ailing Newspapers, Could 'Merge Without Merging'
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Their fortunes are poles apart and yet inseparable—one is hauling in buckets of advertising, the other is losing it at an alarming rate. Google ( NSDQ: GOOG ) sympathizes with the newspaper business' predicament and continues to say it can help, but, sadly for NYT-Google acquisition speculators , CEO Eric Schmidt says he isn't about to buy or ...
Matt McGee
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Search Engine Land
Google SMS Search Is Down … For The Count?
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Search Engine Roundtable reports today that Google’s SMS Search service isn’t working: When you send a search term to 466453, Google quickly replies that your query “did not return any results.” Barry Schwartz used “Lakers” and “RustyBrick” as examples to show what’s happening: The SER report ...
Jemima Kiss
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Technology
Turn on, tune in, and log on to MySpace
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Users of social networking site MySpace will be able to message their friends while watching TV, following a partnership between the News Corporation-owned site and a web TV project led by Yahoo and the processor manufacturer Intel. The Widget Channel will make selected content and functionality from some of the biggest internet names available ...
Owen Thomas
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Gawker
Yahoo's Depressing Backup Plan
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No one wants to buy Yahoo. And the only person who wants to run Yahoo is an insider who helped sink it. Is there any hope left for the beleaguered Web giant? A ludicrously patchy trial balloon lifted off this week, airing the notion that Microsoft might fund some kind of complex buyout of Yahoo, at a knockdown price of $20 billion — less ...
Owen Thomas
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Gawker
Google Launches "School of Spiritual Growth"
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How soul-draining it must be to work at the world's best company! Hence the launch of Google's School of Spiritual Growth, an arm of the search engine's in-house university. Behind it: star-struck engineer Chade-Meng Tan , who's known for his disturbingly large collection of snapshots with the famous people who visit the Googleplex. Tan, a ...
John Thompson
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Journalism.co.uk
HuffPost: What Google Can Do for Journalism
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Dan Froomkin suggests seven ways Google could help journalism (if it really cared). Full story… Similar Posts: CNNMoney.com (Fortune magazine): Google CEO wants to lend a hand to newspapers CNN: Zimbabwe demands $36,000 fee from journalists Comments not so popular on Google News Publishing 2.0: The declining value of redundant web news ...
Judith Townend
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Journalism.co.uk
CNNMoney.com : Google CEO wants to lend a hand to newspapers
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt ‘professes a passionate desire to lend a hand [to newspapers],’ reports Fortune magazine. In an interview with Fortune’s Adam Lashinsky, Schmidt ’shares some thoughts on how newspapers might yet survive - and how Google might help’. Full story... Similar Posts: Eric Schmidt - Google resistance ...
Readwriteweb
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ReadWriteWeb
Return of the Cheap Decade
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In March 2003, Rich Kaarlgaard wrote a great article in Forbes detailing how the coming decade was all about massive reductions in costs and prices, driven by technology. We had grown accustomed to Moore's Law driving down PC costs. Kaarlgaard pointed out that this was happening across the spectrum of the economy. He was right, but many of the ...
Sean Fallon
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Gizmodo
Google May Be Working on Its Own Router
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According to various SD Times sources, including one inside Cisco, Google is exploring the idea of dumping Juniper Networks in favor of building its own routers to handle their ever-expanding need for bandwidth. It seems unlikely that Google would go all in on the hardware end like this, but whether they partner up or not, just a rumor is enough ...
Google Earth Blog
Urban Tick - Research Results in Google Earth
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Imagine if you tracked your daily commute and every side trip for several months. What would your track reveal about the place you work? If you animated the track over time, what would it tell you about the daily flow of traffic in a city? Imagine using Google Earth to show the data and compare it to the underlying imagery and data GE provides? ...
Darren Murph
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Engadget HD
SlingCatcher updates reportedly on the way, cheers heard all over
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Filed under: Media streamers , Others Sling Media's SlingCatcher has been hampered since release due to a few software limitations, but according to ZatzNotFunny , project manager Matthew Feinstein has confirmed that both Slingbox PRO-HD high-def / networked drive streaming are on the way sometime this quarter. Supposedly, resolutions are ...
Yahoo! News
Yahoo unveils partners for Web TV push at CES
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Reuters - Yahoo Inc unveiled on Wednesday a list of partners to aid its push to bring the Internet and television together, hoping their joint effort will finally connect with consumers.
Ubergizmo
Xantrex Solar Charger Prototype
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[CES 2009] Going green is a pretty big theme at CES this year - after all with the stuttering economy, it makes perfect sense to help renew and preserve whatever we have to save costs (as well as have a green planet for our kids in the future). It is no wonder then that we look forward to the day Xantrex releases its Solar Charger prototype. ...
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Startup Meme
CES 2009: Yahoo unveils partners for Web TV bid
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The fact that tech companies are all over CES’s open-opportunity to show off big plans and new technologies is being fully justified – as we learnt that Yahoo unveiled a list of partners that it hopes will help carry forward its Web TV plan with. The joint effort is going to bring Internet and television together for good, and is being done ...
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Rumor: Google Cooking Up Own Router - Apparently fed up with Juniper..
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According to the Software Development Times , Google is working on its own router. That could be bad news for Juniper, the current provider of much of their network gear (Juniper's stock took a hit on the news). When contacted for comment, Google says they don't comment on rumor -- yet the same was said when word leaked out they were working on ...
Communications and Technology Blog
Palm Pre, Game Changer or Dud?
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We owe a great deal to Palm as it started a handheld computing revolution which eventually was eclipsed by smartphones. Years back at a TMC event one of the important comments I heard was that Palm saw RIM as the most important competitor and not Treo (this comment was made prior to the Treo acquisition by Palm) or Microsoft. How right the ...
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Startup Meme
Google Maps for mobile improved
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Google has launched a server side change on Google Maps for mobile and now it is much easier to get directions to a business. Before this change if you would have searched starbucks then application would have searched different addresses with stabucks and not the business. The application now differentiates between an address and a business. ...
Communications and Technology Blog
FlyCast Adds Streaming to PCs and Google Android
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While on vacation in the Cayman Islands last week I was lucky enough to have DSL where I was staying and brought an AP and lit up the beach. I fired up Pandora to listen to music and after about a minute received a message that Pandora was not authorized to run in the country I was in. I found it interesting that this island was a haven for ...
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CES
Panasonic SC-TZ1: wireless, ultra-slim speaker system
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Panasonic released a bundle of home theater systems at CES 2009, but the SC-TZ1 is easily the best of the bunch. The SC-TZ1 is a wireless home theater system that uses the 2.4GHz band to send uncompressed audio to all four speakers. Like all wireless systems, you'll need ...
Maggie Brown
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Media
I've read Ofcom's public service review submissions – so you don't have to
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Happy new year — just think of all the lovely PSB review submissions you could spend January reading. Or not. Luckily, I've read them for you. And there are quite a number of them. Ofcom received some 300 submissions in December, in response to the regulator's Public Service Broadcasting Review phase two, and prior to its final recommendations,
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ILounge
News: Panasonic debuts SC-HC3 iPod stereo, iPod-docking TVs
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Panasonic has introduced its SC-HC3 compact stereo system for iPod. Nearly flat on the front, the system features proprietary, 2.5-inch full-range bamboo cone speakers with a dual passive radiator design, a motorized front door that allows access to the integrated iPod dock and CD player, MP3 CD support, an AM/FM tuner, a clock, 40 watts of ...
Tim Anderson
Five things right, five things wrong from Microsoft in 2008
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Just saw this Network World article on four things Microsoft got right in 2008 . It says: Windows 7, Hiring Yahoo talent, Windows Azure and Server 2008. I partly agree (I am not sure about Azure, or the significance of Yahoo hires). Here’s my own five right moves, with my usual developer bias. 1. Not buying Yahoo at what now seems a ...
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Top News
Yahoo Announces Partners For Online TV
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Yahoo has announced partnerships with consumer electronics manufacturers Samsung, Sony, LG Electronics and Vizo to provide TV widgets to a new line of Internet connected television sets. read more
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Yahoo and Google respond to Microsoft's Verizon deal
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LAS VEGAS -- In the aftermath of Microsoft's deal to put its Live Search on all Verizon phones for the next five years, both Google and Yahoo, who are actively going after the mobile search market, put out statements today.
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Ed Brill
CIO: Using Google Gadgets as Free Lotus Notes Plug-ins
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Tom Duff is back at it for CIO.com. The article talks about Google gadgets in the Notes 8 sidebar in a way that is understandable by any technologist. The conclusion is what grabs me, though:Once you realize that your Notes client can go beyond e-mail and workflow applications, the value you get f ...
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
7 reasons why lawyers using Twitter need a blog
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Twitter's been a game changer in lawyer networking, branding, and client development. But that doesn't mean lawyers using Twitter can forgo a blog. You still need a blog. Here's seven reasons: Twitter, despite a meteoric rise in popularity (mirroring blog growth of 4 or 5 years ago) is not used by enough people. As a lawyer you need to reach ...
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Geekswithblogs.net
Silverlight Cream for -- #479
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Note the GeekSpeak today at 12:00 PST by John Papa . In this issue: Seema Ramchandani, Jeff Wilcox, John Papa, Pete Brown, and Lee. Shoutouts: I had to look up "Otaku", but then thought my granddaughter might like Laurence Moroney's Silverlight and Otaku – A match made in heaven :) ... plus it's DeepZoom, so what's not to like! Yeah, Laurent ...
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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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About Skype
First Version of Skype Now Available for Intel-based Mobile Internet Devices
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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 ...
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Sascha Segan
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Gearlog
CES 2009: Hands-On With LG's Mobile DTV
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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 ...
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Smaller Markets on OMVC Mobile DTV Launch Station List
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Millions of Americans won't have access to the mobile digital TV simulcast, at least, not in the first rollout by the Open Mobile Video Coalition, but a few small markets, such as Mobile,AL, are among the first cities to receive Portable Digital Broadcasts. Consider it digital TV to-go. People in the participating markets will be able to watch ...
Lee Mathews
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Download Squad
Microsoft realeases mobile "Tagging" barcode app
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Filed under: Utilities , Windows Mobile , Microsoft , Beta , Mobile Microsoft has entered the "additional content from a barcode" game, though similar apps like Scanlife have been available for the iPhone for quite some time. Today the beta release of Microsoft Tag - which the company says "links real life with the digital world" - hit the web. ...
Ubergizmo
Nokia 7510 Launches with T-Mobile USA
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[CES 2009] I was able to get my hands on the stylish and colorful Nokia 7510. T-Mobile will be the exclusive carrier of this phone that features UMA connectivity that offers the flexibility to switch between cellular and wi-fi networks for calls. Features include 2.2 inch QVGA display, 240 x 320, 2 megapixel camera, Digital music player ( ...
Lee Mathews
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Download Squad
Flycast upgrades mobile streaming media app, adds Android support
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Filed under: Audio , Internet , Video , Mobile Flycast has announced major upgrades to their mobile media streaming application. T-Mobile users will be excited to learn that it's now available for the G1 Android handset. The desktop application (built on the Adobe Air platform) has also been enhanced. Flycast now features 1,000 channels and 300 ...
SocalTECH.com
ViewSonic Taps Where 2 Get It For Mobile
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Anaheim-based Where 2 Get It has been selected by ViewSonic for the firm's mobile location-based services, the firm said Thursday. Where 2 Get It, which provides software to help consumers find retail stores, said that ViewSonic currently is using its online business and product locator software, and will now use its Mobile Suite.... (more)
MobileBurn.com
T-Mobile announces new Shadow smartphone for 2009
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T-Mobile announced the Shadow 2009, a replacement for the original Shadow launched last year. The new model features an updated design as well as UMA support for HotSpot@Home service. Read the full story here.
MobileBurn.com
Samsung introduces entry-level SGH-t119 for T-Mobile
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Samsung's entry-level candybar, the SGH-t119, has been announced for T-Mobile's network. The SGH-t119 features support for T-Mobile's myFaves service and weighs in at a mere 76.5g (2.7oz). Read the full story here.
Electronista
T-Mobile intros new Shadow, Nokia 7510, Samsung t119
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T-Mobile this morning volunteered to use CES as the venue to introduce a trio of new phones for its network. The company's long in progress Shadow update completely reworks the design but continues to embrace the same basic philosophy of a jogwheel ...
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T-Mobile slide show
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New T-Mobile phones Sprint may have the Palm Pre , but T-Mobile wasn't a wallflower at CES. The carrier announced five new cell phones that span the range of usability. In the smartphone category there's the T-Mobile Shadow and the Rim BlackBerry Curve 8900 , the Nokia 7510 is a mid-range handset and ...
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MocoNews.net
@ CES: Mobile TV Will Likely Be Free, But No Retail Or Carrier Partnerships Announced
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In a very poorly run press conference this morning (picture about 30 executives up on a stage, but no introductions as to who they were or where they work), the Open Mobile Video Coalition gave an update on the state of broadcast mobile TV. What I gathered from the presentation is that when it gets here, mobile TV services likely won't cost ...
Arnold Zafra
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Gadgetell
T-Mobile snags the Nokia 7510, drops the Supernova monicker
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Section: Communications , Cellphones , Cellular Providers , Smartphones , Mobile , Trade Shows , CES What was previously unofficially called Nokia Supernova 7510 will now simply be called the Nokia 7510. T-Mobile USA was the lucky mobile carrier to release the phone to the U.S. market. Just announced at CES, the Nokia 7510 is sure to please ...
BetaNews.Com
HTC unveils Windows phones for T-Mobile and unlocked use
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At CES today, HTC is announcing another mobile phone for T-Mobile's US wireless network. Unlike HTC's G1, the new phone isn't Android-based.
Phil Goldstein
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FierceWireless
T-Mobile launches revamped Shadow
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T-Mobile USA has launched a revamped version of the Shadow (note: it is not being called the Shadow II), which after Research In Motion's BlackBerry Curve 8900 is probably the most anticipated launch in the recent crop of phones the carrier has put out. The HTC-manufactured quad-band world phone, which will run on Windows Mobile 6.1 (an upgrade ...
Dianne See Morrison
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MocoNews.net
Runcom Technologies Acquires Mobile Video Platform Provider Bamboo Media Casting
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WiMax mobile chipset maker Runcom Technologies has acquired Bamboo Media Casting, a mobile video platform provider, in an options swap deal. Financial terms of the agreement were not revealed. Israel-based Runcom jumped on Bamboo after ChinaTel Group, a China-based WiMax and mesh Wi-Fi network, decided not to buy the company, reports Venturebeat. ...
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RSA discovers phishing e-mail that leads to bogus CNN site with Trojan designed to steal sensitive data.
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Journalism.co.uk
CNN: Zimbabwe demands $36,000 fee from journalists
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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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CNN.com Live to Team with Facebook for Inauguration
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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 ...
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The Scoreboard: Wednesday, Jan. 7
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25-54 demographic: (L +SD) Total day: FNC: 282 | CNN: 188 | MSNBC: 160 | HLN: 156 Prime: FNC: 489 | CNN: 318 | MSNBC: 328 | HLN: 401 5p: 6p: 7p: 8p: 9p: 10p: 11p: FNC NewsHQ: Baier: Shep: O'Reilly: Hannity: Greta: O'Reilly: 152 299 350 704 469 295 410 CNN Blitzer: Blitzer: Dobbs: Brown: King: Cooper: Cooper: 192 221 166 203 382 370 235 MSNBC ...
Mediabistro.com
It's a Rick Sanchez World, We Just Twitter It
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During a CES panel today, CNN's Rick Sanchez was cited several times for his use of Twitter as a means of communicating with his audience before, during and after CNN's 3pmET show. We caught up with CNN.com's G.M. and SVP KC Estenson , who was on the panel, to talk about how cable news anchors and correspondents are increasingly using the tool ...
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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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Wired
Finally, Guitar Hero for Actual Guitar
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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...
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The Internet telephony provider may be one of the only technology companies experiencing a boom as the economy tanks.
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Startup Tips: Surviving & Thriving in a Down Economy
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This week's RWW Live podcast show was on the topic of how startups can navigate through the choppy waters of the current economy. We've already posted today on a two year old life-story repository startup called Dandelife, which is struggling - although we were able to draw some lessons from that. But it's also good to look at the startups that ...
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Thursday Evening Links -
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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. ...
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Here's the stuff they didn't mention during the keynote, including whether there will be a GSM version.
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PalmAddicts
I´ve been WOWED! Palm Pre = Awesome!
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[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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Electronista
A closer look at the Palm Pre and webOS
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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...
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TechBurgh Blog and PodCast
7 Top Digital TV Questions Answered
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(ARA) - Are you a television junkie? Do you hold viewing parties for season premieres, award shows or season finales? You may already know that at 11:59 p.m. on Feb. 17, 2009 analog TV will cease to exist. But you may not know what this really means for you. Is this the [...]
BetaNews.Com
Samsung: We had questions, they had answers
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A roundtable panel on Thursday afternoon at CES was one of the show's briefer events so far, but we picked up some interesting news tidbits from the forthright Samsung executives present.
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Bub.blicio.us
18 Questions You Should Answer Before Starting a Social Media Campaign
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By Bernadette Balla Yes, they are many reasons why a social media campaign can be a great resource to reach your consumers on the Internet. But how many of you actually thought about executing your campaign before starting one? Companies such as Wal-Mart, failed twice on their social media outreach. Why do companies fail when executing [...]
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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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Change.gov
Dramatic action
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"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; ...
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