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Palm Shorts Celebrating Chinese New Years in Style Thanks to OTR Global Report

John Paczkowski in News on February 11, 2010 at 1:45 pm PT

With a new distribution deal with Verizon in hand and another with AT&T in the works, Palm is about the last company you’d expect to shut down production of its entire smartphone lineup. Yet, that’s precisely what it did. As OTR Global reported in a breathless alert this morning, Palm has temporarily shut down production of the Pre, Pre Plus, Pixi and Pixi Plus. But not for any worrisome reason, as the OTR note seemed to imply. No, Palm handset production was shut down in observance of Chinese New Year.

The Microsoft Cougar Memo: It's Grrrrrrrrreat!

Kara Swisher in News on September 23, 2009 at 5:12 am PT

Last week, a cougar was reported to be roaming on the Redmond, Wash., campus of Microsoft. Here’s an image the very fine global alert from Microsoft Global Security first sent last week, which assured employees of the software giant that “Microsoft Security will conduct frequent patrols of all wooded areas of the campus.” That’s more than you can say about how the software giant handles hackers!

Microsoft Vine: The Zune of Social Networks

John Paczkowski in News on April 28, 2009 at 9:09 am PT

Think of it as Facebook for the people you actually know and like, those whose health and safety you’d worry about in a natural disaster. It’s called Microsoft Vine and it’s not so much a social network as it is a “societal” one–or at least, Redmond likes to bill it as such.

Tracking Your Money Without Paying a Mint

Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on April 30, 2008 at 12:01 am PT

A free Web site called Mint.com hopes to help users get a better handle on where their money is going, how much is in each account, and what can be done to budget that money more efficiently.

Keeping Tabs on Kids’ Phones

Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on July 25, 2007 at 12:01 am PT

A new software application called Radar allows parents to monitor activity on their children’s cellphones. The program is user-friendly enough for tech-shy parents, but it doesn’t yet work with most basic cellphones.