"American gadget group Palm will next week confirm that it has signed
a deal with O2 which will see the mobile phone network become the
exclusive UK partner for its eagerly awaited Palm Pre handset.
The Pre, which went on sale in the US last month, has been tipped as the most viable alternative yet produced to the iPhone. The new version of the Apple device – the iPhone 3GS – went on sale less than two weeks ago and a million were snapped up in the first three days."
"As forewarned, if you are among the millions who downloaded the Windows 7 beta and you haven't
since upgrade to the Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC), you are about to
experience unpleasant service interruptions. In lieu of an October 22 release, and a wrap-up for the RC phase, Microsoft began the end of life process for the beta release today.
Starting today users running the beta version of the OS will have their
system shut down every two hours. Microsoft is urging users who stuck
with the beta to jump to the release candidate, which includes a number
of additional features and refinements. WritesMicrosoft's Brandon LeBlanc in a Windows team blog post, "If you're still on the Windows 7 Beta you should certainly look at giving the Windows 7 RC at try!""
"The company purchased 2.2 million shares at 1.43 British pounds
($2.36), for a total cost of 3.14 million pounds ($5.19 million). The
purchase brings Apple's stake in the company to 9.5 percent,
effectively tripling its ownership in Imagination, according to a report on MocoNews."
"Many users are reporting signal oddities with the new iPhone
Apple's
problems, like history, seem to have a way of repeating themself. The
iPhone 3G S launch, like the 3G launch of a year before brought more crashed servers and more unhappy customers. And just this last week Mac Pro users began to experience display problems
with their new computers, echoing problems that have been reported for
a couple years in various models. Now iPhone users are reporting
reception and signal problems that echo the iPhone 3G's problems last
year that were eventually traced to/blamed on faulty chipset firmware."
