First digest post done on mac

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Sunday, March 15th 2009

Motion’s J3400 rugged tablet PC boasts dual batteries, outdoor display
Boxee remote app for iPhone and iPod Touch available on App Store
Clock ticks for plasmas, LCDs
Old Habits Die Hard
Surprise! Google Earth used for robbery
Patent bares rumor: Apple TV gearing up for games?
Comcast, Sony to open joint retail store
Sprint Treo Pro now finally available, for real this time
SXSWi: Web Awards Honor 2009’s Big Names, Underdogs
Four Things The New iPhone Must Have!
iPhone 3.0 to have copy and paste, Pre-like features — but no background apps
Windows 7 to officially support logon UI background customization
Cell Phone “Jammers” = “Pandor’s Box”
New Life for Older PCs
Stopper Postcard Measures Delivery Speed While Stressing Out Postal Workers [Pointless]
UK ISPs Could Be Forced To Block Or Restrict P2P
Holy Cats! There is a DRM chip inside the iPod Shuffle earbuds! [Update]
Delivery Status touch for iPhone
Would you buy an Intel smartphone?

Saturday, March 14th 2009

Over 80 bug fixes due in Mac OS X 10.5.7 “Juno”
SXSW: AT&T’s Spotty Service Frustrates iPhone Users
TUAW @SXSW: The iPhone Gaming Panel
Live Images From Google Mars Now Available [Mars]
At SXSW, attendees confront Twitter saturation
SXSW: ‘Dead Space,’ a ‘Deep Media’ Case Study
Are You Interested In “Wearable Technology”?
Google Releases Jaiku Code!
Video: Apple Nehalem-based Mac Pro unboxing and hands-on
Apple Facing Lawsuit Over Exploding Ipod
Public Bug Tracking and Open-Source Policy
Will Apple sell iPhone themes on iTunes?
Bell Canada doesn’t want to share next-gen fiber network
Rumor: A Premium App Store for Even Pricier iPhone Apps? [Apple]

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Here are the links for: Sunday, January 25th 2009…

Record video with any Liveview enabled Canon EOS DSLR
Mario Paint Composers
Apple to sue Palm?
Plastic Logic e-reader not coming until early 2010
Bill Gates’ Plan To Destroy Music, Note By Note
Edit-Approval System Proposed For English-Language Wikipedia
iLife ‘09 Shipping Now For Some People? Hits Torrents in Three, Two… [Apple]
DLP Pico Pocket Projector Technology - CES 2009
HP TouchSmart for Business - CES 2009
22 Most Used Free Fonts By Professional Designers
Mac: 25 Years in Pictures
Twitter Has Done News. Now It’s Doing Global Charity Events
Is the Zune doomed?
Google to launch next big update to Google Earth
Multiple Windows 7 versions coming? Say it ain’t so!
Who Needs Netbooks? Acer Plans Detail Mobile Internet Device [Acer]
Rogue Android App Allegedly Destroying G1 Memory, Installing Adware [App Market Scam]
5 Resources for Netbook Helps, Hacks and How-To’s
Mozilla wants to watch 1% of Firefox users
iPhone 101: Basic questions, basic answers
Sprint Treo Pro spotted in the wild, specs and all
FriendFeed Hits Nearly One Million Users; Grew Tenfold In The Past Six Months
Monster.com Data Stolen, Won’t Email Users
RSS-powered Windows 7 desktop slideshows
iPhone Bluetooth File Transfer Coming Soon (YES!) [IPhone]
Comcast Charges Hurricane Victim $24.95 For Calling Service
Windows 7: some bad news for business users
Microsoft To Exit the Zune Business?
New Twhirl beta turbocharges Twitter - becomes must have Twitter client
AMD sees distinction between netbooks and laptops vanishing
Google Puts The Squeeze On Free Apps
CNN Uses P2P Plugin for its Live Stream
Get your hack on: unofficial multi-touch support released for Android
Jolicloud: the OS your netbook has been screaming for
National Censorship Plan Offensive, Says Aussie Shadow Minister

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There was a time when the pda market  was new… Apple was the original leader of the pda market. In 1989 Apple started work on the newton under the lead of John Sculley. In fact the term PDA or Personal Digital Assistant was coined by apple .You may ask what this has to do with palm but it has alot to do with it since the Newton even tho it was largely successful it was big and clunky.

In 1992 palm started  work on a pda/tablet hybrid device called the Zoomer… it was built by Casio and was sold by Tandy. It ran a GeoWorks OS with custom set of applications but it really didn’t take off.

Graffiti and HotSync were a sucess and was used on many pdas… Eventually they decided they wanted to make their own PDA right from the ground up (Hardware/Software). US Robotics provided the money and manufacuring behind it… When released in 1996 the Palm Pda then Pilot was a huge sucess due to its size and function but the Pilot pen company objected to them using the name and forced them to change it.

Over the years various models were released ans the feature sets/OS got enhanced over time. 3Com had bought US Robotics but the integration of palm into 3com didn’t go so well and the creator of the palm pda left to form Handsrping… they released a Palm OS device called the Visor that could use a phone card and eventualy they released the Treo a pda with built in cell phone.

Later on 3Com decided to spin off Palm into Palm Inc but part of the shuffle was the resulting company was split into two parts… PalmSource for the OS and Palm For the hardware. Eventually Handspring was bought by Palm and became PalmOne…. later on they aquired the rights to the Palm name back from PalmSource and changed their name back.

Less and less hardware company’s licensed the os over the years in North America (Yes the start of the death of the PDA market) more so due to the prohibitive licensing. The last true Palm OS was version 6 Cobalt but it was never adopted by any hardware makers even palm them self… the previous version 5 Garnet was continued to be used on most devices including their own.

Shockingly PalmSource was sold to the Japanese comany Acess but palm bought back the Palm OS rights. Palm even branched out to using Windows mobile on newer Treo models starting with teh 700w… as of this publishing date they currently only focus on the windows mobile Treo models but things may change with a new smart phone announced that runs a new os of their own.

Overall id say Palm is a shadow of their former self and unless they really change things they are doomed to failure.

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