Steve O’Hear / last100:
Have we just witnessed the second coming of Palm?  —  Ex-Engadget editor Ryan Block put it best when he said that Palm’s much anticipated CES announcement “will either mark the beginning of the company’s second coming — or the beginning of the end.”  Thankfully, for those like me who were rooting […]

Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Chrome 2.0 Pre-Beta  —  Google Chrome’s development is high-paced and version numbers are not very significant, but it’s weird to see a pre-beta release of Chrome 2.0, four months after Chrome 0.2.  There are many new things in Chrome 2.0:  —  * form autocomplete …

Jason D. O’Grady / The Apple Core:
Four core iPhones and firmware 3.0  —  One of the most interesting rumors I’ve been tracking here at Macworld Expo in San Francisco surrounds the mysterious four-core iPhone.  While the current iPhone has (roughly) the processing power of the Sony PSP, an upgraded four core iPhone …

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Palm Unveils Its iPhone Rival: The Pre.  Don’t Expect to Buy One Cheap.  —  Palm used to own the smartphone market, but now it’s barely hanging on amid competition from Research In Motion’s (RIMM) BlackBerry line and Apple’s iPhone.  Today the company unveils its long-awaited comeback plan …

Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Obama Digs In for His BlackBerry  —  WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama has yet to relent, but he conceded that he might be losing the battle to keep his independent lifeline to the outside world.  —  “I’m still clinging to my BlackBerry,” Mr. Obama said Wednesday.  “They’re going to […]

Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:
Reasons to skip Microsoft’s Windows 7 Beta download  —  As many of you know, I’m a hardcore Mac guy - but I wasn’t always this way.  My experiences with Windows Vista sent me over the edge, prompting me to add the “hardcore” next to my “Mac guy” title.  Still, […]

Matt Richtel / New York Times:
Palm Unveils iPhone Competitor, the Pre  —  LAS VEGAS — Seeking to revive its sharply fallen fortunes and produce a successor to its aging Treo device, Palm on Thursday unveiled a new smartphone, the Pre, and an exclusive partnership with Sprint to distribute it.

Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Palm announces webOS platform  —  Palm just got official with its new webOS platform, running on the new Palm Pre.  According to the company, anyone who knows CSS, HTML and XML will be able to develop for the OS without having to learn any new languages — sounds kind of like […]

Paul Miller / Engadget:
The Palm pre  —  The new-ness is underway, and Palm just debuted its long(est) awaited all-new handset, the Palm pre.  The curvy touchscreen handset has a 3.1-inch 320 x 480 multitouch display, with a rollerball down below and touch sensitivity all down the face — the lower part is for “gestures.”

Ryan Block / gdgt live:
Live Palm keynote coverage from CES 2009  —  This is it for Palm.  Today’s launch will either mark the beginning of the company’s second coming — or the beginning of the end.  So yeah, you might say expectations are high for Nova and their next-gen hardware — or whatever it […]