We have information from a trusted source that the latest Palm smartphone running the Nova operating system will be launched Thursday. The new phone will have a full QWERTY keyboard that will slide down under a portrait-oriented touchscreen. We’ll have a mock-up shortly.
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New European streaming music service Spotify, which TechCrunch UK has been tracking since October, is getting increasingly good reviews. Spotify is a downloadable client for Windows and Mac users that lets you search, browse and stream a deep collection of music.
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YellowSn0w is out and it’s ready to rock. Here’s how to become SIM-independent.
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What should be Barack Obama’s resolutions for the New Year once he takes office? He needs to look to further than his transition Website, Change.gov, where more than 74,031 people have submitted more than 53,369 questions (and counting) for his administration and voted 3,122,015 times to prioritize the questions in a Digg-like fashion.
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Looks like the iPod Touch had a good Christmas, as App Store downloads on December 25th increased three-fold or more for most titles.
The boost in sales “appears to be from a large influx of iPod Touch users,” according to MacRumors.com, who noted that it would have been much easier to give an iPod Touch as a Christmas gift versus an iPhone, which would have to be activated and whatnot.
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Vertor is a new BitTorrent site that aims to eliminate fake torrents and spam. Every torrent on the site is checked for viruses, DRM and password protected archives by Vertor’s software. A nice advantage of this site is that users are able to preview the contents of torrents before they download them.
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John Gruber tackles private APIs again on Daring Fireball, noting that even some homegrown solutions to mimic iPhone private API calls has been banned inexplicably by Apple.
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Someone at InformationWeek could probably use a vacation right about now.
Earlier today the site ran a post titled “BlackBerry Storm Causes Major AT&T Outages“, in which it described the network issues the telecom giant has been having over the last day.
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WD’s badass little media box is getting its first firmware update and it’s available starting now. Read on for details to find out what’s been fixed, what’s new and how to get the update for yourself.
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Would you buy a Nokia 8800? No? Okay, but would you buy a Nokia 8800 that’s encrusted in 8.2 ct diamonds? Still no? Smart man.
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