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Exclusive: Palm Pre’s Arrival at Verizon Shelved (Scott Moritz/TheStreet.com)
Scott Moritz / TheStreet.com: Exclusive: Palm Pre's Arrival at Verizon Shelved — SUNNYVALE, Calif. (TheStreet) — Palm's (PALM Quote) Pre phone isn't making the cut at Verizon (VZ Quote). — The Pre, Palm's premier touch-screen smartphone, which has been an exclusive offering this year at Sprint (S Quote), had been scheduled to arrive at... »
Twitter to Become Tech’s Newest $1 Billion Company (Brad Stone/Bits)
Brad Stone / Bits: Twitter to Become Tech's Newest $1 Billion Company — Twitter, the fashionable microblogging service, is set to close a round of financing of around $100 million that values the three-and-a-half-year-old start-up at $1 billion, according to a person briefed on the company's plans. »
Apple ready and waiting with redesigned iMac line (Kasper Jade/AppleInsider)
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider: Apple ready and waiting with redesigned iMac line — Apple as early as this month will begin to fill out its 2009 Mac product line with a new family of iMacs sporting classier enclosures and a few added bells and whistles, AppleInsider has learned. — The new all-in-one … »
AT&T announces time for iPhone MMS availability Friday (Sam Oliver/AppleInsider)
Sam Oliver / AppleInsider: AT&T announces time for iPhone MMS availability Friday — American iPhone users should see multimedia messaging features unlocked late in the morning Friday on the west coast by way of a carrier update file that will be delivered through iTunes, AT&T announced Wednesday. »
Confirmed – Nvidia Working on Chrome OS Tegra Devices (Kevin C. Tofel/jkOnTheRun)
Kevin C. Tofel / jkOnTheRun: Confirmed — Nvidia Working on Chrome OS Tegra Devices — Earlier this month, rumors out of China indicated that we'd see Google Chrome OS devices running on Nvidia's Tegra platform. I had a product briefing with Mike Rayfield, Nvidia's GM of Mobile Business, and heard it directly from the... »
Google Mobile App for Windows Mobile gets My Location and more (Craig Wilkinson/Google Mobile Blog)
Craig Wilkinson / Google Mobile Blog: Google Mobile App for Windows Mobile gets My Location and more — It's easier and faster than ever to search Google using your Windows Mobile phone. Just visit m.google.com to download the latest version of Google Mobile App, which includes these new features: — My Location. »
Breaking News: Twitter to Raise $100 Million From Insight … (Deal Journal)
Deal Journal: Breaking News: Twitter to Raise $100 Million From Insight, T. Rowe Price, Other Investors — Michael Corkery and Jessica E. Vascellaro report: — Twitter, the messaging web site that has become an Internet sensation, is nearing a deal to close as much as $100 million of new funding … »
New study says Palm Pre second only to iPhone 3GS in mindshare (Joshua Topolsky/Engadget)
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget: New study says Palm Pre second only to iPhone 3GS in mindshare — Market research firm Interpret recently made some discoveries about public perception of smartphones that should shock, surprise, and amaze you. The just released report, dubbed “Signature Smartphones: Gaining Mindshare … »
(Updated) Gmail Problems Arise Once Again. [downtime] (Zee/The Next Web)
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Zee / The Next Web: (Updated) Gmail Problems Arise Once Again. — We're receiving messages and tweets reporting Gmail being down for some and inaccessible in parts for others. — This comes soon after a major downtime period just three weeks ago, where the company were forced to explain … »
Apple’s 2009 earnings up nearly 44% under new accounting rules – analyst (Philip Elmer-DeWitt/Brainstorm Tech)
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech: Apple's 2009 earnings up nearly 44% under new accounting rules - analyst — How much will Apple's (AAPL) reported earnings be affected by the new accounting rules approved Wednesday? — A lot, says Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster. — In a note to clients issued early Thursday … »
Microsoft giving free tools – lots of them – to woo Web designers (Brier Dudley/The Seattle Times)
Brier Dudley / The Seattle Times: Microsoft giving free tools — lots of them — to woo Web designers — Web designers haven't exactly rushed out to buy Microsoft's Expression design tools, which are aimed at a market dominated by Adobe. — But small design shops may have trouble resisting a new offer that... »
Palm Pre coming to the UK and Ireland October 16, Germany October 13 … (Vladislav Savov/Engadget)
Vladislav Savov / Engadget: Palm Pre coming to the UK and Ireland October 16, Germany October 13, all O2 exclusives — It might be about four months late, but the UK is finally getting its slice of the tasty new Palm pie. There'll be no shortage of outlets to buy this from, with the... »
