Palm’s PDAs were once a tech accessory equivalent to wearing Jimmy Choo shoes. Having one made you appear important, rich, successful, or all three. The raging debate over who had the bestest PDA - Compaq/HP Pocket PCs or Palm’s wide range - was as intense and dorky as the iPhone fanboys versus CrackBerry addicts. I once witnessed two Circuit City salesmen argue over the best one to go with my new bluetooth-capable mobile phone. The advent of smartphones made carrying a phone AND a PDA a t

New data released today by comScore shows a 34% increase of online video consumption by U.S. Internet users versus year ago. A total of 12.7 billion online videos were viewed during November 2008. Not surprisingly, Google/YouTube held the top spot with a 40% share of videos viewed online. Also in the top five most visited video sites were Fox Interactive (3.5%), Viacom (2.6%), Yahoo! (2.4%) and Microsoft (2.3%). Other tidbits from the comScore report: 77 percent of the total U.S. Internet audi

The popular site Twitter has been experiencing a tremendous amount of phishing attacks that stole the usernames and passwords of site users. Many of these accounts were prominent Twitter accounts. Fox News’ account declared for about an hour that “Bill O’Reilly is gay” while Barack Obama’s account, which was last used in November on election day, posted a long link to a third-party survey with the lure of a gas card prize. Rick Sanchez, a CNN anchor and frequent Twitterer, was declaring earlie

We’ve talked about iPhone tethering for so many times so far that it should only be fair for AT&T and Apple to officially settle the deal so far. We’ve seen both legal and illegal tethering version so we should only be waiting for the officially official version. Is Tuesday’s Macworld keynote going to reveal an AT&T iPhone tethering plan? The plan has been rumored cost $30 per month for $5GB. Sounds familiar? Well that’s what AT&T BlackBerry users are paying so far. Will we be disappointed

The good news is that with the keynote almost upon us, the Mac community has switched primarily from crying about Jobs not giving the keynote to instead focusing on the usual rumors and speculation. This is as it should be. I’ve written about what I think of the change from Jobs to Schiller for Apple’s last Macworld keynote, so let’s talk about what we may see tomorrow. So many rumors, so little time… Software It seems there are three likely announcements on the software front: An update t

Android ported to OpenMoko Handset, as Palm gets big Xmas present Posted in Phone Systems by admin on January 5th, 2009 Googles Android platform for mobile phones has been successfully ported to OpenMoko’s open-source handset. OpenMoko’s hardware is an open source handset that users are free to modify till their hearts are content so long as they stick to the open source license. The handset comes with a Linux-based OS and interface, but sticking Android was an obvious, yet useful developme

Here’s another cool free iPhone App, called iSteam. iSteam adds steam to your iPhone’s screen when you blow on the iPhone microphone, you can then wipe it away or write on it just like you would on the bathroom mirror. Here’s a video of it in action. The iSteam iPhone App is available as a free download from the iPhone App Store, here’s the download link. Download iSteam iPhone App - Free iSteam via Coated This is a Syndicated post from iPhone Sync. This is a post from Geeky Gad

CrunchGear got an exclusive information from a trusted source about Palm (NSDQ: PALM)’s upcoming CES announcement. Palm’s new OS aka “Nova” is described as “amazing,” boasting full software market a la Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) AppStore alongside Palm’s classic PIM suite. The device that will run the new operating system is “iPhone-like” and comes with a full QWERTY keyboard that slides down under a portrait-oriented touchscreen. A mock-up above should explain you how this could look like… And tha

If you are a long time iPhone user who is used to its virtual keyboard, you might find the need of a physical keyboard unnecessary. However, some folks insist that its one of deal breakers. We have already seen the iPhone hacked by wiring it up to a genuine physical...

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