Reminder: Pre-order Windows 7 (Home Premium Update) for $50 (for limited time)

Microsoft is to sell the standard home-user version of its new Windows 7 operating system for 8 percent less than the comparable version of its Vista system, as the global downturn hits spending on technology.
The new operating system, which Microsoft hopes will be a bigger hit than the poorly received Vista, will be generally [...]

MLB.com Debuts Premium Mobile Service for Palm Pre

 MLB.com Debuts Premium Mobile Service for Palm Pre, Feature set includes live stats, video highlights and streaming audio broadcasts of every game
MLB.com, the official Web site of Major League Baseball, announced that MLB.com Mobile Premium, a new mobile-optimized live game product developed for the Palm(R) Pre(TM) smartphone, is available on the device via the [...]

LG aims to be #2 in mobile space

In an interview with Yonhap News Agency, Ahn Seung-kwon, president for LG’s mobile business, determines to take over Samsung’s second spot in mobile phone market within 2 years. He also went ahead to lay out LG aggressive plan to gain market share. The plan includes a “Back-label” series phone to compete with the iPhone; [...]

Palm Pre Classic Store Sale 20% off

To celebrate the launch of the Classic catalog for Palm Pre phones we’ve created a 20% off all software sale from Wednesday, June 23 through July 4th. You just need to enter the coupon code “CLASSIC” on checkout. Visit Classic App Store for Palm Pre HERE! 
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GDGT.com is live

Peter Roja and Ryan Block, both former Engadgeteers took some time to create their new Web site http://gdgt.com and it just went live few minutes ago.
This is how they describe their site:
It’s taken a little while for us to get here, but we’re very happy to be finally unveiling gdgt to the world. So [...]

Windows Mobile is considering capacity screen support

The iPhone, Palm Pre, Android have capacitive screen support, while Windows Mobile only supports resistive screen. Even Steve Ballmer mentioned in recent interview the reason why. Microsoft certainly will consider to implement this feature in future Windows Mobile OS releases.
Taken from a recent Microsoft development blog, which gives a nice summary of the [...]

Waze, Free Android app for real-time road info

Waze is the first free provider of driver-generated maps and real-time road information. It uses a community-based approach to maps and traffic, and harnesses driver-generated data to build navigable road maps and provide real-time information to commuters on the latest road conditions, traffic, street closures, speed traps and more. By building a community of [...]

Global 3G Blackberry Tour hits Verizon Stores on July 12th

Wireless announced today that customers can pre-order the BlackBerry Tour for $199.99 after a $70 mail-in rebate with a new two-year customer agreement online at www.verizonwireless.com/tour.
The BlackBerry Tour joins the BlackBerry Storm, BlackBerry Curve 8330 (available in either silver or pink), BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8230 and BlackBerry 8830 World Edition smartphones in the Verizon Wireless [...]

Skype 3.0 for Windows Mobile released

Skype, the popular VoIP just released Skype 3.0 for Windows Mobile. The notable changes are File transfer (similar to the desktop counterpart) and SMS.
Other new features/enhancements include:

feature: Add to Contacts Wizard
feature: Dial Helper
improvement: Emoticons support in mood messages/about me
improvement: Hyperlinks support in mood messages/about me
improvement: Added option to block [...]

Rumor again about Dell working on a mobile device

WSJ reports Dell is working on a non-phone Internet portable device that will be powered by Google Android OS. The device reportedly has a form factor similar to the Apple iPod touch, using ARM-based chip. As you know, since the Axim line, Dell has explored several mobile products but none came to fruition. This [...]

YouTube Debuts YouTube Reporter’s Center

With recent events, many users have upload video clips in real time as well as live updates over Twitter. Sometime the currency of the event gains over quality of the produced contents.
From Google blog: And so today, Google is launching a new resource on YouTube to help citizens learn more about how to report the [...]

Mozilla Weave Sync Bookmarks, Passwords, Preferences across systems

The anticipated Firefox 3.5 is on course for Tuesday release. In addition to new enhancements, Mozilla also released its add-on, Weave, allowing Firefox users to synchronize bookmarks, passwords, and now preferences and automatic logins across systems. Weave essentially is a framework that let you export your Firefox environment to the cloud, so from any [...]

Msnbc.com Introduces New iPhone and iPod Touch Application on The Zumobi Network

Free App from America’s News Site Delivers Compelling Multimedia Experience with Video, Photos and Twitter Feeds 
Msnbc.com and Zumobi today announced the launch of the msnbc.com application for the iPhone and iPod touch, offering access to breaking news, videos, photos, and more from msnbc.com.  Now available for free on the Apple App Store, consumers can [...]

Toshiba TG01 Comes With Nimbuzz for O2 in Germany

First Handsets Available With Optimized Version of the Nimbuzz Social Messaging Client Pre-Installed.
Today, Nimbuzz announces that its native preinstalled version will be available on the highly anticipated Toshiba TG01 handset that will launch with O2 Germany in mid June 2009.
The arrival of the TG01, one of the most anticipated new smartphones of 2009, brings [...]

Easy Tilt-Shift your photos with TiltShiftMaker

One of the easy way to add drama to your photo is to add some blurry effects to certain areas while highlighting others. If you don’t have fancy camera to add depth to your photo, TiltShiftMaker can easily help to transform your good photo to a great photo.
The technique Tilt-shift is normally used to  manipulate [...]