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Can AT&T Help Palm?
Palm’s “Pre Plus” and “Pixi Plus” smartphones will start selling through AT&T (joining Verizon and Sprint), but will...
A Quarter of Phones to have WiFi in 2012
Wi-Fi continues to infiltrate not just smartphones, but feature cellphones, as hotspots proliferate in the home and office....
MESA Selects Concept for Video
The Mobile Electronics Specialists of America (MESA)— the buying group expected to represent a $1/2 billion in car...
SBN Sets “Trade Only” Day
Next year’s Spring Break Nationals in Daytona Beach, FLA will include a "trade only day" on Monday, March...
Amazon’s Kindle for Mac
Amazon continues to expand its Kindle eBookstore’s reach beyond the Kindle eReader, announcing today eReading software for the...
Nook is Best-Selling Product at B&N
The Barnes & Noble nook eReader has become the best-selling product at Barnes & Noble since it launched...
Garmin Moves To Switzerland
Garmin said it will move its place of incorporation from the Cayman Islands to Switzerland, pending approval by...
B&N Names Lynch CEO
In a sign of the growing importance of e-commerce, Barnes & Noble rearranged its executives making the head...
B&N Nook Gets Exclusive Content
Barnes & Noble is offering special eBooks and prices exclusively for its nook eReader customers. When the B&N...
Mobile DTV Seems to Clear FCC
In case you are wondering if Mobile DTV—free over-the-air-live-TV to portables and car TV-- is still alive, the...
Navigon iPhone App is $25
Here’s a backdoor way that iPhone navigation just got cheaper (where it’s not already free). Navigon just launched...
Alex Ships in April at $399
The Alex eReader, heading for sale at Borders bookstores this June, is also now available for pre-order online...
iPad Pre-Orders Pass 150K
Pre-sales of the Apple iPad rolled in at an initial fast a furious rate of 120,000 units in...
TomTom iPhone Traffic is $20/yr
How much is real time traffic worth to you; an extra $20 per year? That’s what TomTom is...
QUE Delayed Til Summer
Plastic Logic delayed the release of its business-aimed eReader, the QUE, which is due to be sold through...
New JL Audio Stealthbox
JL Audio released its latest Stealthbox car-specific subwoofer system, with a $949 model for the Nissan 370Z coupe....
MESA Adds More Vendors
Mobile Electronics Specialists of America (MESA) named its five accessory vendor partners and said it will announce its...
Kenwood Car Decks to Read Email
Finally, it looks like aftermarket suppliers are waking up to the new reality that people want more from...
DS Sales Hit Record High in Feb.
Maybe Apple’s iPod Touch isn’t putting the quash on Nintendo DS portables as much as some believed. The...
Barnes & Noble Readies iPad App
The Apple iPad may have at least two eReader apps close to its April 3 launch as Barnes...