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Pandigital announces the already available Nova ereading tablet, also teases of future models

Yesterday we mentioned how the Pandigital Nova ereading tablet had come available by way of Best Buy and was selling for $169.99. And well, flash forward a day and it looks like Pandigital has officially announced the device. Needless to say, the Best Buy listing was indeed accurate and the Nova ereading tablet will be more »

Live from the Palm Press Conference: Nova anyone?

We’re here getting ready to see what Palm has got in store for us. We assume they’ll be launching their new mobile operating system Nova, but will they simultaneously launch a groundbreaking device? We sure hope so. Stick around and refresh the page every so often to make sure you’re getting real-time updates from the more »

Last minute CES 2009 predictions

About 12 hours before CES we’ll kick into high gear with ‘Press Day”, here are my last minute predictions for the big themes at CES: 3D HDTV with out glasses It has been a looong time in the making (yup a whole three o’s worth). 3D is the impossible tech that consumers always flock to more »

Palm: New OS will be finished by year’s end

Palm has announced that their next-generation OS will be finished by the end of year and new handsets will be announced in the first half of 2009. The Linux based OS, which has been in development since 2003, is known as Palm OS II or Nova, and has been highly anticipated by Palm loyalists, many of who have been frustrated by the glacial pace of the new OS’s development.

Palm announces another loss

Despite strong sales of its Palm Centro smartphone, Palm reported its 5th straight quarterly loss yesterday. It posted a net loss of nearly $42 million for the three months ending on August 31st, which is a sharp increase when compared to their net loss of $841,000 for the same period last year.

Amid the loss is a success – the Palm Centro smartphone, which sold more than 1 million units in the past quarter, an almost 50% increase from last quarter and has sold more than 2 million units in less than a year. The phone, which is available from Sprint, AT&T, and Verizon, comes in a variety of colors (including the upcoming Rose and Green) and was a hit among women and newcomers to the smartphone world. It also endeared itself to Palm veterans loyal to the aging OS.