HP acquires Palm for $1.2 billion, webOS to accelerate
HP is buying Palm for $5.70 a share, or roughly $1.2 billion. Does this mean we can expect HP netbooks and tablets running webOS sooner rather than later? Sure would beat Windows 7 starter, wouldn’t it?
Says Todd Bradley, executive vice president, Personal Systems Group, HP:
“Palm’s innovative operating system provides an ideal platform [...]
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Quick Review: Words with friends HD for the iPad
Words with friends by Newtoy $4.99 [iTunes Link] is a scrabble-like game for the iPhone and now, iPad.
With Words with friends, you can play online against your friends, against random online opponents, or pass-and play on a single iPad. The nice thing about Words with friends is that it allows you to play [...]
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Apple buys Siri voice-powered personal assistant
Apple’s buying spree obviously didn’t stop with chip wizards Intricity — they’ve snapped up voice-powered personal assistant Siri as well.
The Siri iPhone app is currently still available in the US App Store [free - iTunes link]. No guarantees on how long that will last. What makes Siri so interesting is how they integrate a number [...]
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Apple buys chip designer Intrisity for $121 million
Apple has bought chip designer Intrisity for $121 million. Given the rapidity and speed of the Apple A4 chipset debuted alongside the iPad, rumors have persisted that Intrisity was behind the new system-on-chip (SoC), but confirmation took a while to arrive.
Intrisity was able to take the standard ARM Cortex A8 found in 650MHz flavor in [...]
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Windows Live Messenger Coming to iPhone
There is no shortage of Instant Messenger application in App Store to keep in touch with your MSN (or Windows Live) friends. BeejiveIM, eBuddy and Meebo are all great IM apps for iPhone. However, none of IM apps is from Microsoft, the official creator for MSN (or Windows Live) messenger.
Today, as unveiled by neowin, Microsoft [...]