MotionApps, which we wrote about earlier, has released one of the few apps available for Palm’s Pre and its webOS platform: an emulator that allows you to run Palm OS applications. On Friday, they launched Classic Well, a community-driven Web site that tracks Palm OS “Classic” app compatibility. Here’s what the site says: Classic Well is a user driven forum where Palm OS user community can report on and discuss Palm OS apps run in Classic. Users can share how those apps behaved and provide recommendations and

On Sprint’s Facebook page, we find a new ad that is directed at 1st generation iPhone users. The ad brings to light the fact that the new Palm Pre can run multiple applications at the same time and can save users up to $1,200 over two years compared to the iPhone.The ad also suggests that since many 1st generation iPhone users are just getting out of their contracts, now is the perfect time to make the switch to Sprint and the Palm Pre. Sprint’s new and upcoming 4G network, the first of its kind from a national

Taking a break from expanding its Aspire netbook lineup, Acer has instead select its monitor and desktop lines to refresh this week. Getting us going is the new H235H premium monitor, a 23″ widescreen LCD while provides a 1920×1080 resolution, 2ms response time, 300 cd/m2 brightness and 100,000:1 contrast ratio. The unit also boasts SensorTouch technology, or in other words, LED illuminated controls that replace the buttons that are standard on many displays. There’s also a VGA and HDMI port as well as DVI with

Garmin has been steadily expanding its Nuvi GPS lineup for quite some time, but the company’s latest introductions are more for the outdoors crowd. The Dakota 10 and Dakota 20 handheld GPS navigators each include a high sensitivity GPS receiver, worldwide basemap and color touchscreen display. Both are completely waterproof and up to 20 hours of battery life. 20 hours! In theory, anyway, the GPS systems could be used as one’s main system, but these are tailored for use in hiking and trekking scenarios. The rugged

A Playstation on your cell phone?  The notion might not be so far-fetched. The latest news out of the Japanese electronics and gaming giant is that it’s “considering developing a cellphone-game gear hybrid” on Sony Ericsson phones.Once the superpower in portable music – the Walkman, launched about 30 years ago, was revolutionary and became one of the best-known brands of its time. Anyone who didn’t own a Walkman owned a knockoff. The Discman, which, as it sounds, played compact discs wasn’t as huge a hit,

HTC unveiled its latest Android phone, the Hero, earlier in the week. Perhaps more exciting than the phone itself, however, was the custom Android interface called Sense. This UI lets users customize their device and provides better access to the information you want at a glance. The UI supports widgets, customized profiles, and consolidated views of various types of information. HTC has said its future devices will use this Sense UI. Now, we’re seeing more good news from the company, with various sources reporting

Microsoft is reportedly considering offering Windows 7 on USB thumb drives to allow netbook owners to upgrade their machines. Windows has, until now, only been distributed on DVDs or via download. This is great news for netbooks owners as netbooks don't have optical drives.

The challenge of getting Windows 7 on to older Netbooks threatens to cast a shadow over the technical work Microsoft did to get Windows 7 running on Netbooks. Its predecessor, Windows Vista, proved ill-suited to Netbooks forcing Microsoft to continue selling Windows XP as its answer to the low-cost notebook phenomenon. The Windows 7 ISO weighs in at 2.3GB, which would take several hours to download on an average broadband connection and potentially do serious damage to a customer's broadband data cap. Consequently, the company is exploring alternative means of distributing the OS, including USB flash drives, according to a report.

A new rumor has surfaced that suggests Microsoft is considering a third method for distributing copies of Windows 7: USB flash drives. We already know Microsoft plans to offer a retail version as well as a downloadable version of Windows 7, but these two options present some challenges for users with netbooks that lack DVD drives who want to upgrade to Windows 7. According to an undisclosed source, CNET claims “Microsoft is considering offering Windows 7 on a thumb drive to allow netbook owners to more easily

Apple Ups Its Stake Of Imagination Tech to 9.5% LONDON, June 26 (Reuters) – UK chip designer Imagination Technologies Plc (IMG.L) said on Friday iPhone maker Apple Inc (AAPL.O) has upped its stake in the company to 9.5 percent following a share placement and recent share purchases. Stake-building in Imagination Tech by both Apple and U.S. chipmaker Intel Corp (INTC.O), which now owns a 16 pct stake, ignited takeover speculation and drove up the share price earlier this week, although the shares have dropped

Patriot Launches AMD Black Edition Ready DDR3 G SeriesHigh Bandwidth Memory to Fully Utilize performance with AMD Overdrive software on AM3 desktop platforms. Fremont, California – Patriot Memory, a global pioneer in high-performance memory, NAND flash and computer technologies, today announced their first co-branded Gamer Series for AMD’s socket AM3 processors and desktop platform technology, codenamed “Dragon.”Built with Patriot’s pre-sorted low-voltage solutions, the AMD Black Edition Ready G series, targeted