Palm’s troubles represent a familiar theme: how to re-brand a failing company, and turn it back into the success that it once was.
Palm will be getting a much needed injection of cash from Elevation Partners, in the amount of $100 million USD.  In details disclosed in a Palm company press release on Monday, Elevation [...]

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Loopt, a GPS-based geo-location service that allows you to broadcast your whereabouts on the web, is now available on the Google Android, including support for the HTC G1.
Loopt, as with Loki and Yahoo’s FireEagle service, are all in the same category of sites that I feel actually go a little too far in terms [...]

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MyFox Washington DC reports that they were able to snag a $20 used BlackBerry at a McCain campaign fire sale that included some interesting tidbits:
When we charged them up in the newsroom, we found one of the $20 Blackberry phones contained more than 50 phone numbers for people connected with the McCain-Palin campaign, as well [...]

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Just as the Netbook devices start to become popular – you know, those tiny laptops with ridiculously tiny screens and keyboards – the founder of Netvibes, Tariq Krim, announced plans to release a new software stack, named Jolicloud, to provide a streamlined OS for the Netbook platform.
Most of the Netbooks today come pre-loaded with [...]

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Here’s another nice little tidbit that’s worth keeping in mind for anyone currently building the next killer web application:  the SMS text messaging market is predicted to nearly double by 2013 to over $224 billion.
In a new report by Portio Research titled ‘Mobile Messaging Futures 2009 – 2013’:
Traffic volumes and revenues continue to confound predictions [...]

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Virgin mobile announced two new services for Helio-based phones today, describing themselves as having provided “game-changing features” for mobile social networking.
According to Virgin, the new Helio ‘Connect’ service provides advances mobile-based social networking:
Connect ushers in a new era of community integration for Helio By Virgin Mobile members, allowing them to display friend updates and [...]

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What is up with me finding news out of Australia lately?
Check this out, the Kogan Agora Pro Android phone:
Back at the beginning of November, Kogan had said that the phone was going to be AU$199 and ship by Christmas, but that has since changed.
According to Kogan:
The Agora will cost AU$299, and the Agora Pro will [...]

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