Palm has announced their “new-ness” : a new smartphone called the Palm Pre, powered by the new Palm OS called webOS (formerly code named Nova).
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Palm recently refreshed their website for the new year. It’s more streamlined and looks good, for a corporate website. Palm now has only 3 products on sale, all of them smartphones : The Treo Pro (Windows Mobile, GSM), Treo 800w (Windows Mobile, Sprint/EVDO) and the Centro (Palm OS Garnet, GSM).
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Apple and the music labels sure haggled for a long time over making the iTunes Store DRM-free. Both sides won some, lost some : Apple had to concede to variable pricing, and the labels had to consent to DRM free, plus giving Apple to ability to offer song downloads directly to iPhones from cellular networks (3G and EDGE) instead of just WiFi.
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Well, it was an interesting night for me, and an interesting morning for a lot of people. Apple held their last ever keynote presentation for the Macworld conference yesterday. There were no surprises, with some announcements on iWork, iLife, iTunes and a new 17 inch MacBook Pro. I stayed up for the keynote (it started at 1 am local time), and blogged about the announcements as they came available.
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