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Branding-wise, they’re calling the new phone the “Palm Pre 2”, but the updated OS gets the HP name. The demo videos are Flash — so not only can you not watch them from most competing mobile devices, but you can’t watch th...

Sounds like a great software update. Hard to judge the hardware by the press release. But there’s no U.S. release date for the new phone. And why announce this major news — the first major Palm news since the HP acquisition — with a ...

The boss made a rare appearance on Apple’s analyst call, and he was en fuego. Macworld has a full transcript, and it’s chock full of good stuff. Highlights, paraphrased:Upcoming iPad competitors are going with 7-inch screens as a cost-c...

Sounds like a “don’t let the door hit you on the way out” departure. Everything he’s done at Microsoft has been a dud. ★ 

Apple, reporting over $20 billion in revenue and $4.3 billion in profit:Apple sold 3.89 million Macs during the quarter, a 27 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. The Company sold 14.1 million iPhones in the quarter, representing 91 p...

Just finished Kevin Guilfoile’s new novel, The Thousand, and I really enjoyed it. It’s smart, fun, intricately plotted, and really comes together at the end. Sort of like a Dan Brown novel for smart people. Don’t take my word for it ...

Speaking of Philip Elmer-DeWitt, he’s got a good round-up of analyst predictions for today’s quarterly results announcement from Apple. What’s the deal with Daniel Ernst’s prediction of a mere 2.4 million iPads sold? Apple sold...

Philip Elmer-DeWitt on a report by Deutsche Bank’s Chris Whitmore:Exclude the iPad, and Apple’s PC sales grew 24% year-over-year. Include them, and Apple’s unit sales soared roughly 250%. By comparison, Hewlett-Packard grew 3% y...

Vlad Savov’s review of Nokia’s new flagship smartphone is devastating: decent hardware (but a slow processor) and terrible software. ★ 

Brooke Crothers:“That tablet thing? Yeah, we’ll get back to you on that.” That’s a crude but fairly accurate encapsulation of the attitude Microsoft, Intel, and Advanced Micro Devices have toward the iPad and the tablet ma...

Don’t miss the companion sites for Enterprise CSS and JavaScript. ★ 

Scathing behind-the-scenes look at the development of EA’s Warhammer Online MMO game, from “EA Louse”, a pseudonymous insider:Anyway, back to Warhammer. We shouldn’t have released when we did, everyone knows it. The game wasn