Areas of our digital life that should be left open or kept closed
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The Palm Pre sold out in many locations, during its first weekend on sale. Experts expect Palm to ramp up production quickly before enthusiasm cools. Palm will also have refreshed competition from Apple, which is expected to deliver big iPhone news from the WWDC.
Read the full article at eWeek.com
Palm has stopped teasing us and finally announced a date for the launch of the Pre. The handset will go on sale on Saturday June 6th for $300, just two days before Apple’s WWDC, where many are expecting the announcement of a new iPhone.
Read the whole article at Wired.com
OpenedHand is a small open-source firm that worked on projects for Nokia, One Laptop Per Child, OpenMoko, iRex, Access, STMicroelectronics and Vernier. The firm has recently been acquired by Intel, who plans to absorb it into its Open Source Technology Center, the department working on Intel’s Moblin Linux platform.
Microsoft hasn’t infirmed rumors about a Verizon “pink” phone.
«Microsoft may be wielding a new weapon in the war against Apple. The company’s rumored to be working on a top-secret smartphone with Verizon. The mission: take out the iPhone. The code-name: “Pink.”»
Read the article at PCWorld.com
Well, considering the Redmond company’s record track of attempts to compete in the field of mobile computing (remember the Zune?) and the fact that the iPhone is king, I’d say Microsoft stands as much chance as the World reaching global peace.
Commenting on the BusinessWeek article announcing that HP Is Studying Android for PC Use, an anonymous reader made the rather pertinent observation that Smartphones appear to be leading the computer industry into the future, where you essentially get a “thin” OS (e.g. Android, iPhone, Symbian, Blackberry, WinMo, WebOS, etc.) and you “build” the functionality you want on the device from an app store. If/when HTML5, PhoneGap, BONDI, etc. become mainstream, essentially all the same apps will run on all of the “thin” OSes, so it will simply be a matter of picking the device you like with the user interface you are comfortable with.
