HP Acquire Palm

HP and Palm, Inc. (NASDAQ: PALM) today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which HP will purchase Palm, a provider of smartphones powered by the Palm webOS mobile operating system, at a price of $5.70 per share of Palm common stock in cash or an enterprise value of approximately $1.2 billion. The transaction has been approved by the HP and Palm boards of directors. The combination of HP’s global scale and financial...

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Voice Over WiFi on BlackBerry

Research In Motion (Nasdaq: RIMM) on Monday unveiled two new BlackBerry smartphones and a voice over WiFi feature to its voice technology. The BlackBerry Bold 9650 The new devices are the BlackBerry Pearl 3G and the BlackBerry Bold 9650. The new BlackBerry Pearl 3G measures 4.25 by 1.96 by 0.52 inches and weighs 3.3 ounces. It has a 624 MHz processor with 256 MB of flash memory and a microSD/SDHD memory card slot that supports cards of up...

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Palm begin to fall out

A senior vice president at Palm has just left the company, and one of its biggest retail partners, Radio Shack, as of today will phase out all systemwide stock of Palm phones. Michael Abbott, Palm's SVP of Software and Services, will officially leave his executive post on Friday, April 23 after the company confirmed his resignation last Friday. And today, the Wall Street Journal confirmed that Radio Shack no longer plans to sell the Palm Pre...

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New iPhone coming in June?

We got word that Apple has booked a conference center in San Francisco and this just paves the way for the introduction of the next iPhone. We also heard that AT&T is not letting customers take vacation for certain periods in June, which was how it operated during the releases of the previous iPhone handsets. BFD, you say? I have a feeling Apple’s really going to knock it out of the park with this hardware upgrade because it has to. The Droid...

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100 Amazing Design, Futuristic Concepts

Concept designers are also referred to as “visual futurists”. These concept designs may not be on the market yet, but they can still inspire you to create something just as futuristic and exciting online. The designs may be impractical in some cases, but the idea is to put the concept out to the world to see how it evolves and grows. Remember that these are all just conceptual, you can’t buy them yet! Some may be closer to being produced than others,...

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