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With Palm’s Treo 700w going Windows and PalmSource being purchased by Access, many are questioning the future of these PDA innovators.
We’ve seen Microsoft gobble up its competition in the past (OS/2, Lotus, OmniPro, for example) and it’s any wonder if history may once again be repeating itself. With five questions posed to some Palm [...]

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After the iPod nano scratch returns fiasco, Apple is easing restrictions on returned fifth-generation iPods.
Basically you can bring it back and tell them that, “it just doesn’t hold all my music,” or, “I thought it would have a red button in the middle like the last U2 iPod,” and they’ll take it back. Like [...]

Forget about the iBooks or iPods some students have been given on campuses around the country. Oregon school district’s are issuing Palm’s to 7,000 students in hope to make them more productive.

Many people and technology experts thought that the new Motorola Rokr would be a smash hit on the market. Are some now changing their thoughts? Like I always say, the Rokr has been out for some time now, and people have had a chance to get one and review it. Unfortunately however, many of the [...]

When you read my review of NoviiRemote from NoviiMedia right here in the coming days you’ll be hot to want it, I’m sure. But if funds are low and your desire is high, put it on your Christmas list or just win it from NoviiMedia direct!

Chalk this up as another frivolous lawsuit as some kid and a few others are going after Apple’s deep pockets. It’s not about the scratches that the iPod nano gets, nope, it’s about the money.

Is this of things to come? Will more and more Palm OS developers just give up on PalmOS and PalmSource’s lagging operating system and follow Textware’s lead? Was Palm, Inc’s move to hug Bill Gates and his Pocket PC a death nail for the Palm OS?

What the… According to the article below, prepaid service is patented and not only that, a recent court ruling might just change the entire industry.

It seems that Verizon is just not ready to be fully compliant with the mandate for location pinpointing on their mobiles just yet. Check back later, maybe they’ll have it then.

Looks like Palm wants to juice its Treo 650 up and offer RIM’s BlackBerry Connect early next year on them.
Seems Palm may be covering all bases with its Treo as the Treo 700w will have a very similar feature in Windows Mobile 2005 when coupled with Microsoft’s Exchange 2003 server. Either that, or [...]

With PalmSource going Linux for the next version of its operating system, it comes as no surprise that PalmSource has joined Open Source Development Labs.
PalmSource hopes that the Linux community will contribute greatly to its mobile phone operating system, but time will tell if PalmSource will contribute back, openly, to the community.

ProphecyBoy is reporting that Palm is going the Apple Store route and making one of its very own in L.A. just a spitting’s distance from Apple’s main digs in L.A.
While Palm has little kiosks in malls and airports across America (of which I saw and touched my first T3 oh so long ago), this is [...]

Oh this really sucks for both BlackBerry the company and U.S. users of their products. Just take a look for yourself…

Hmmm, guess Google is not the only one looking to get into the Wi-Fi scene. Earthlink has just won the bid to “unwire Philadelphia” according to Muniwireless.

Hey, if Real can offer video service for Cingular users without the bloat such as the app being used on Windows PCs, then more power to both of them…

Earlier today Motorola announced five new phones that are set to drop on the Asian market. In fact, it announced that it has been selected by the GSM Association (GSMA) to serve for a second phase as the sole supplier of handsets for the Emerging Market Handset (EMH) program - a program that strives to [...]

And after reading the title, the response has got to be; “Why the heck not?” After all, they already teamed up on a phone together, right?

With GoogleNet in full effect, the search engine giant has just taken a huge step into a whole new world. I wonder just how powerful GoogleNet will become and if we should in fact, be as concerned as other Wi-Fi companies likely are right now…

Looks like China is not the only new growth market for mobile phones. I just learned that Nigeria has sold their billionth Nokia phone. Now that is a lot of calling plans!