Here's a pretty cool revelation, check it out and if you need a stimulus check, how did you spend it? Voila! I STRUCK GOLD, your beloved Palm Pre is out for $99.99. It's a real deal at LetsTalk, if you can afford Palm's touchscreen sensation. No, I am not talking about the refurbished ones like the iPhone for $49. The company would be offering the Palm Pre for $99 after calculating mail-in and instant discounts. However, if you wanna be eligible for the rebate you need to order before the end of today.

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With iPhone turning out to be a phenomenal success, the telecom majors are eager to cram the share of smartphone markets. T-Mobile USA will be selling a new smartphone using Google Inc's Android operating software from this August onwards. The high-end device has to directly face off the smartphone giants iPhone and Palm Pre. The NO. 4 mobile service in US, T-mobile myTouch 3G phone would be a slimmer and more advanced version of G1 manufactured by HTC Corp, based-on Google's Android technology. The smartphone would carry the same price tag - $199, as that of 16 GB Apple iPhone and Palm Pre, expect a rebate for two-year service contract. MyTouch's biggest claim is its across-the-board personalization.  Let's dig out its features to know whether the newbie stands a chance in the smartphone war.
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Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

The year 2009 started on a high-note with some ground breaking revelations in CES 2009. In a keynote address, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced the availability of its long awaited, next-gen OS - Windows 7 beta. Following the suit, next big thing in the line of Linux OS was Fedora 11 Leonidas. While Apple chief Steve Jobs took his first break after a decade, blogs were flooded with iPhone 3G S leaks, out as the new avtar in mobile market long before it floored on the Apple store - enough noise to overwhelm Steven Spielberg's next project with Tintin as protagonist. Palm one the other end was looking to recover its lost glory in mobile phone market with the launch of its smartphone Pre. In the turn of events, Google created ripples in the enterprise market with its new tool for communication and collaboration on the web - Google waves. Google co-ounder Sergey Brin was highly apprehensive of Microsoft ad-hyped search engine Bing's launch this season, of course for no good reason. Microsoft plans to take gaming experience on Xbox 360 to the next level with controller-free gaming under the Project Natal.

Not just these but there was much more happening in the tech world that took let jaws drop. We went on an exhaustive search to break out the top tech adventures that shook the tech world in 2009

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In our Palm Pre Vs Apple iPhone we had already highlighted the raging war between smartphones. It seems Palm with its dwindling market is making every possible effort to grab a share of touchscreen mobile phone market. With Apple's iPhone stealing the show with its assortments of apps, Palm Pre couldn't just keep ogling. Palm's touchscreen novelty comes with a catalog of 19 third-party apps. What's most exciting is that all these Palm Pre apps are free. But these are not high-end games, as Palm's Mojo SDK (software developer's kit) prevents third parties from programming flashy action games and intensive office applications. For Palm this is a mere beginning and they have announced more advanced SDK in future.

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With the air over iPhone getting hotter and the App Store about to spill over with apps, Apple plans to allow the developers to in-app payments to applications through the iPhone App Store.The in-app commerce would be one of the the significant additions to the much awaited iPhone 3.0 OS.The idea seems quite simple, with transactions taking place within the application Apple is trying to change the economic trend of mobile application market. In addition, it could be a lucrative inclusion for the developers offering the opportunity to make money from their applications. From what could be anticipated, Apple could leave the smartphone competitors to dust if their plan is executed accordingly.

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Apple WWDC 2009 starts day after tomorrow. But this year, its just not gonna be another occasion where you can relax and expect Apple to conquer simply because 2009 is a lot different. When Apple Inc. launched an updated iPhone at its annual gathering of software developers last June, its biggest competitor was the iPhone that Apple had introduced the year before. That won't be the case at this year's conference, which opens Monday. Now the next version of Apple's touch-screen phone has to outdo a slew of rival gadgets — including one that comes out this weekend — that emulate or improve on some of the iPhone's best features. And that is not it. From the new Mac OS X to the new Macbook tablet PC waiting to be launched or announced, they all will have a steep competition coz the real guns are waiting. Microsoft has a respectable bunch of products now headed by Windows 7. So is the case of Linux community which is growing from strength to strength. So the question is, can we be surprised once again?

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Apple is all set to host the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco's Moscone Center that will begin from Monday. It has been customary for the back-fence talks to intensify on eve of WWDC, turning on the guessing game for Apple's would-be release. This time the banners read WWDC: One year later. Light-years ahead. The phrase combined with all the application icons, provide a clear hint that the crux of the conference will be the App Store and the new features of the iPhone OS 3.0. In its announcement of the conference keynote address, Apple.
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The whole world is buzzing in with the competition that Palm Pre is gonna face with the mighty iPhone but on the other hand, gadget gurus predict that a smartphone to truly match and perhaps surpass the quality of iPhone is here. In a remarkable achievement, Palm Inc., a company that was something of a has-been, has come up with a phone operating system that is more powerful, elegant and user-friendly. The Pre, which goes on sale Saturday for $200 (after a mail-in rebate) at Sprint stores, makes it easier to do more things on the go.

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Palm, pioneer in PDA and smart phone market made no noise when Apple launched its iPhone two years back.  With the announcement of Palm Pre in CES 2009 it could be anticipated that Palm is all set to recover its lost ground. Palm has decided to schedule Palm Pre's release on June 6, that is just two days before the start of Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco where the company will release the next generation iPhone. The new Palm Pre touch screen smart phone, priced at $200 comes slide-out QWERTY keyboard, GPS, 2.0 MP camera, 8GB internal memory, gesture area, application store and more.

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