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Alan Grassia at 1src has a very interesing editorial on what he feels is the future of Palm.  I've been listening to Alan's podcasts for a long while.  First with his Grassnet pods, then later when he replaced Jeff Kervin with the 1src pods, so I repect his outlook.

Interesting reading.... 

Just What Does Palm Have Cooking?


Treo rumors aside, Palm is working on a number of cool things out there in Sunnyvale, California.

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Just when everything got back to normal in the Blackberry world, RIM gets hit again by a patent-infringement lawsuit. RIM settled the patent lawsuit with NTP in March.

This time it is Visto. Visto just won against Seven Networks and receives about $3.6 million. Motivated by this win, Visto filed now a similar suit against BlackBerry provider Research in Motion (RIM). Visto is seeking an injunction and monetary damages against RIM.

RIM's initial statement is that Visto's patents are invalid and that their customers will not be affected by the lawsuit.

Via: I4U 

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Yahoo! News offers up their top 10 Windows XP tips of all time. They've covered a wide range of topics from display tips to bits on how to increase disk space and performance.

Below is the list of topics they cover.  Read the entire story at YahooNews.

• Halt background services to improve performance.
• Increase available disk space by scaling back System Restore.
• Scrub your hard drive clean.
• Run two displays on the same PC.
• Force unresponsive applications to close at shutdown.
• Automatically optimize your hard drive.
• Set a custom resolution.
• Stay on top of registry changes.
• Recover lost data.
• Automatically log when and why shutdowns have occurred.

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Students at Del Mar College in Corpus Christi, TX now have to use computers outside the school's system if they want to visit the popular Web site MySpace.com.

The community college has blocked the site in response to complaints about sluggish Internet speed on campus computers.

An investigation found that heavy traffic at MySpace.com was eating up too much bandwidth, said August Alfonso, the school's chief of information and technology. Forty percent of daily Internet traffic at the college involved the site, he said.

"This was more about us being able to offer Web-based instruction, and MySpace.com was slowing everything down," President Carlos Garcia said.

MySpace.com — a social networking hub with more 72 million members — allow users to post searchable profiles that can include photos of themselves and such details as where they live and what music they like.

Paul Martinez, 20, is a frequent visitor to MySpace.com and finds the site to be addictive. Restricting access to the site could be a good idea, he said.

"The library is pretty much full with people on MySpace, and with them banning it you won't have anything to distract you," he said.

Some though, disagree with Del Mar College's decision.

"We pay for school and the resources that are used," said Zeke Santos, 20. "It's our choice, we're the ones paying for our classes. If we pass or fail, it's up to us."

Via: YahooNews 

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The world's biggest chip maker Intel is investing in Vietnam and Microsoft chairman Bill Gates is due to visit this weekend, but the poor Southeast Asian country's IT industry has a long way to go.

Business analysts say that for the second time in a decade an array of foreign industries and services, including IT firms, have an eye on Vietnam's highly literate, young workforce.

Read Full Story at CNN.com 

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The CDMA Development Group (CDG)

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Isn't that what all men are accused of saying? 

If the words assembly required send chills down your spine, you might want to If the words assembly required send chills down your spine, you might want to talk to Mike Mehrle & check out Assemble4You.com.

The Columbus, Ohio, resident has created an online network of assemblers around the country to help individuals and businesses put together things such as office furniture and exercise equipment.

The network is built around Mr. Mehrle's Web site, where users can search for assemblers in their region.

But he soon put aside his career in graphic design to become a full-time Mr. Assemble-It.

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Today, The New York Times released a new redesign of their website, announced by Leonard M. Apcar, editor in chief of the NYTimes online edition.

Many people have been commenting that the design is based on weblogs, and others are saying that bloggers have something to learn from the new Times redesign.

One of the noticeable changes in the design is the fact that it makes use of large monitors by being able to expand indefinitely. The space provided by the new design allows them to better place advertisements as well as more content.

Many blogs have been experimenting with this new design layout - having the columns expand as large as the screen resolution can go to make reader easier on the eyes.

However, according to Anil Dash at Six Apart, other popular newspapers have had their websites redesigned based on blogs, such as the recent redesign of the New York Magazine. It's exciting to see that weblogs influence popular websites, because it shows that popular web services pay attention to blogs.

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While 3.6 Million sounds like a lot--and it is, the Justice Department finds far fewer victims of identity theft than previous Federal Trade Commission study.

An estimated 3.6 million households, or about 3 percent of all households in the country, have been victims of identity theft, according to the Justice Department.

That's far less the estimated 9.3 million victims reported by a Federal Trade Commission study for the same period.

The estimated total loss during the six-month period in 2004 was about $3.2 billion, the study said.

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Source: BusinessWeek Online 

JetBlue and other low-fare airlines once again held the top rankings in a national survey of carrier quality, made public Monday. The survey found that people are flying more and complaining more.

Following JetBlue in the rankings were Air Tran, Independence Air and Southwest. Independence has since gone out of business.

The annual survey said that people are boarding planes as often as they did before the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackings -- and complaints about airline service are growing as well.

The year 2000 was the high watermark for flight delays, cancellations and seething passengers left stranded in terminals.

"We've got the same problems we had five years ago," said Dean Headley, a co-author of the study and associate professor at Wichita State University in Kansas.

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LoveMySeat.com caters to the world’s estimated 69 million annual airline travelers. When comfort is a priority, LoveMySeat.com is the first place Internet air travelers should turn to ensure they secure the best possible airline seats.

The world’s estimated 69 million annual air travelers now have a new place to turn online when it comes to booking the best possible airline seats. Fueled by this figure—which is expected to grow to 1 billion passengers by the year 2015—LoveMySeat.com today made its official Internet debut in 2005. Designed to fully inform passengers in advance about airline seat specifics, LoveMySeat.com exclusively caters to this growing segment of the travel population. Airline passengers who have booked flight tickets and would like to ensure they secure the best possible seats can visit the company online at www.LoveMySeat.com.

A recent Gallup Poll revealed that a full 60 percent of air travelers say they’ve experienced at least minor problem with their seat comfort, with 19 percent citing airline seat discomfort as a major issue. Frequent complaints range from lack of seat legroom to no seat recline, and everything in between. If flight ticket holders were informed to these issues prior to selecting their airline seat assignments, they could make more informed decisions, thereby experiencing a more enjoyable journey. But with dozens of airlines to choose from and seat layouts changing all the time, where does the time-pressed air traveler turn for such information? LoveMySeat.com arms air travelers with the information they need to make the most informed airline seat selections.

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Popular Mechanics has released this impressive list of the Top 50 Inventions of our time.

PM convened a panel of 25 experts to identify innovations that have made the biggest impact, from the hospital to outer space to the kitchen.

It's amazing to see how far we have come in such a short time frame. 

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The Wall Street Journal reports that Microsoft is expected later this week to name Steven Sinofsky, who now oversees the company's Office product group, to run the operating system unit.

Vista's delay until January is expected to hit sales of personal computers during the holiday shopping season.

The Journal reports Sinofsky has a reputation as a meticulous manager who is adept at controlling large software projects, which the paper said is seen as a need at a company where there remains a large gap between upper management and the thousands of programmers and engineers building a product.

Source: CNN.com

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