Cody Taylor

Barence writes “At CES, Palm announced what promises to be the product that finally matches and even betters the Apple iPhone, and certainly looks to be the most important product announced at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show. It’s called the Palm Pre and it’s based on a completely new operating system, called Palm webOS. Its key specs include a 3.1in 320x 480 touchscreen, 8GB of storage, UMTS HDSPA support (in the UK version of the phone), 802.11b/g WLAN, Bluetooth, and GPS. It also includes a slide-out Qwerty keyboard, 3.5mm headphone jack, and what Palm described as the ‘fastest ever’ Texas Instruments OMAP processor.”

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Best Buy seems to have a good deal going with Apple, as it was the first retailer outside of Apple’s own stores to carry iPhones, and now will be the first again, by selling “refreshed” or, more accurately, refurbished 3G iPhones.

James Bond and Dick Tracy fans are likely to queue up for this soon. The new watch-phone from LG is one of the coolest gadgets at CES 2009 show.

The new-ness is underway, and Palm just debuted its latest handset, the Palm pre. It’s a touchscreen phone with a trackball and a slide-out keyboard.

The cell phone company provided provided latitude and longitude coordinates and triangulated them to learn where the two missing people were. Coordinates kept coming in within 300 feet of each other. “Then I Googled it,” Deputy Chief Lozier said. Using street view, he was able to look back and forth from the intersection and identify a motel…

True, Microsoft seems to be all about me-too wares these days. But here are 8 research projects that are pretty cool, like the auto-updating Digital Postcard and the sign language Shake2Talk phone.

AdMob, the world’s largest and fastest growing mobile advertising marketplace, today launched Download Tracking for iPhone applications. For the first time, advertisers can accurately monitor App Store conversion rates – clicks on an ad that lead to a completed download of the advertised application…

Motorola has announced plans to launch the world’s first completely carbon neutral mobile phone, at CES 2009 in Las Vegas. The shell of the W233 Renew is made entirely of recycled water bottles, and will be available via T-Mobile within the next three months.