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New Version of Twitter for Android

in News on February 10, 2011 at 2:35 pm PT

According to a post on Twitter’s Web site, six months ago, Twitter for Android didn’t rank among the top 10 Twitter apps. But usage has doubled in the last couple of months, and now it’s in the top five. Accordingly, the company is launching a new version of the Android app that looks and feels more like its other official apps and offers design improvements, along with username auto-completion and universal search.

Palm Pixi Needs a Dusting of Speed

in The Mossberg Solution on November 17, 2009 at 4:52 pm PT

Palm offers the Pre’s webOS operating system in a tinier package: the Pixi.
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Rubinstein and McNamee: Remaking Palm

in D7 on May 28, 2009 at 12:14 pm PT

What a wonderful curative the Palm Pre has proven to be for Palm. Especially considering that the device has yet to ship. In early January of this year, the company’s shares were trading below $3, having been dragged deep into the mud by a string of nasty quarterly losses. Five months later, after the Pre’s announcement at CES, they’re trading at over $10.
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iPhone 3 Rumors Upgraded to Outperform

in News on March 16, 2009 at 8:07 am PT

Apple’s plan to preview iPhone OS 3.0 tomorrow is a sure sign that the company is on track to debut the next iteration of the phone on which it will run this summer. That’s the word from Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, who has high expectations for the OS and device both.
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