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Handcase Launches Gune for WebOS

Do you get tired of trying to go to multiple search sites from your SmartPhone, bouncing from Bing to Google to whatever?  Brazillian company Handcase wants to help.  Gune (which is a Basque word meaning “site”–how cool is that?  Basque!) is a meta-search system that searches through other sites and generates one page of results. [...]

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Slacker Radio Plus Giveway

[ image courtesy of TheDroidGeek.com ] If you’re a Gear Diary reader and you still haven’t tried out Slacker Radio for your iPhone / iPod touch, BlackBerry, Palm webOS or Android smartphone, you’re missing out.   We still get responses from people who’ve read Dan’s “Rediscovering The Music of My Youth” feature from February, and have [...]

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ZumoDrive Announces Free Cloud Storage Apps to Android and Palm WebOS Devices

ZumoDrive is personal cloud based storage that let you access any type of data anywhere you have online access. They offer 2GB of free storage that you can use to store virtually anything you want instant access too. The desktop client supports Mac, PC, and Linux operating systems.  Based off the success of the currently [...]

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Lets hear it for Palm– up to almost 1,000 apps!

The saga of the Palm  Pre and Palm Pixi seems to be the saga of the little phone that could. Everyone, both tech and consumer alike, likes the interface and smirks a lot at the commercials.  But, its a slow adopter. But, it’s a new year, and time to give the Palm Pre and Pixi [...]

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Smartphone Experts Sites Accessories Sale

Several of the Smartphone Experts sites are having an end-of-year sale! All accessories are 10% off at each of their respective stores, with the right site-specific code.

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Sprint Pre gets WebOS update today

Its update time once again!  Aside from the news of the G1 update to Android 2.0, there is news from the land of Sprint. According to the folks over at Engadget, a WebOS update to the Sprint Palm Pre to version 1.35 is due out today.  It is supposed to fix issues with the application [...]

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Don’t Buy That Sprint Pixi!

Unless you really hate Verizon. Engadget broke the news that the Pixi has been cleared by the FCC for Verizon, and it includes WiFi!

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Palm Sued Over Poor WebOS Backups

A few reports have surfaced over the last few months about Palm’s WebOS “backup” being a bit less than stellar. Stories of people losing contacts, calendar data, etc have been pretty common, especially tied in with OS updates and hardware swaps. The gist of the suit appears to be that Palm not only offered an [...]

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NewsRoom for the Palm Pre – Finally a world beater.

Although I’m a fan of the Palm Pre, let’s just say, the app selection and quality is a ‘mixed bag.’  Apps that are mediocre get pretty popular because there are few alternatives and many people have lower expectations.  Sort of like the fact you can’t open a mediocre pizza joint in New York City as [...]

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The Palm Pre through the eyes of a former Palm OS Treo Business User

I’ve been a business smartphone user since the category was invented.  I started with Palm and have been loyal to them through the years as the market has developed from a niche geek market to the fastest growing segment of mobile communications.  Analysts say it will easily overtake conventional cell phones in developed countries very [...]

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Dealert for the Palm Pre keeps one eye open for deals

Dealert recently appeared in the App Catalog for the Pre.  At $1.99 its a very reasonable price for what it does – which is keep an eye open at all times for great shopping deals.  I haven’t seen anything quite like it in terms of usefulness – most of which is caused by the ability [...]

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Palm webOS 1.2 available now

Palm webOS 1.2 available now

Palm Pre users can now update their phone to version 1.2 of webOS. Some of the new operating system features include: a beefed up Palm Synergy that includes LinkedIn contact syncing, more linking across different “flavors” of IM contacts (no word on what flavors), better filtering of your email inbox by typing a search term, [...]

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Palm Sneaks in a Pixi

Sometimes it pays to stay up into the wee hours of the morning, watching Bounty with your sweetie. I came to check email during a popcorn break, and found a little surprise in my inbox.. Here is thew newest member of the webOS lineup – the Palm Pixi. It looks like the HTC Tattoo isn’t [...]

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Palm Pre App Catalog. 30 Apps in 30 Days. Day 30: Yelp

Palm Pre App Catalog. 30 Apps in 30 Days. Day 30: Yelp

When I started this series, my hope had been to tackle all of the apps in the Palm Pre App Catalog before its official launch, later this month.  But the developers turned out to be too fast for me.  In the month since I started this series, the App Catalog has grown from 30 apps [...]

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Palm Pre App Catalog. 30 Apps in 30 Days. Day 29: Express Stocks

Palm Pre App Catalog. 30 Apps in 30 Days. Day 29: Express Stocks

I have to admit that I have never been one to dabble to deep in the stock market.  Most of my money is in IRAs or index based funds.  Plus, I rarely want to have the values too close, because looking at how much money I am constantly losing can get a bit depressing these [...]

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Save on the Logitech Z906 5.1-channel 3D Surround Sound THX-certified Speaker System

Audio quality matters. But until you hear something that is really full and rich sounding you can’t know what you [...]

PlayStation Vita Game System Review – Part I

Gamers gain a more robust mobile console experience with the PlayStation Vita versions using Wi-Fi/3G or Wi-Fi only online capabilities plus a rear touchpad, two analog sticks and a sharp OLED display.

BANG! Your Lights Are Out

Back in the days when I was on the look out for the “perfect tablet” (in other words, before I [...]

RIP Eugene Polley, Inventor of the TV Remote at 96

Image courtesy of Wikipedia I remember reading an article about 25 years or so ago! on how everything wired was [...]

Get a Droid RAZR 16GB 4G LTE Plus $25 Apps Plus $40 Credit Plus Double Data

AmazonWireless had the 16 GB Droid RAZR for just $0.01 with new two year contract. Thatnis pretty amazing considering the [...]

Windows XP’s “Bliss” Background: A Blissful Happenstance

Most people who have been using PCs in the past decade or so have doubtless seen this image, the default [...]