Palm opens up third-party webOS apps beta program

From InfoWorld: Those who've been waiting for the Palm Pre to become a meaningful competitor to the iPhone are one step closer on Tuesday, as Palm announced that it's beginning to take submissions for its App Catalog's e-commerce beta program.

Previously, the App Catalog had been...

Logitech's New Mice Like Shiny Objects

From PC World: Logitech on Wednesday expanded the company's line of high-end mice with two models that offer enhanced scrolling capabilities. Thanks to the company's new Darkfield Laser Tracking, the desktop Performance Mouse MX (similar to the MX 1100) and the portable Anywhere...

HP quarterly profit dips 19 percent

From CNET News.com: With revenue down across almost all of its businesses, Hewlett-Packard posted a 19 percent drop in profit for the third quarter of 2009.

For the quarter ended July 31, HP recorded earnings of $1.6 billion, down from $2 billion the same quarter a year ago, and...

UK Gets Windows 7 Full Versions at Half Price, U.S. Left Out

From DailyTech: Usually on the short end of the stick when it comes to pricing, the British finally have some good news to cheer about. The UK will be receiving special pricing on the Windows 7 that will make full versions of the software cheaper than the upgrade edition in the U.S...

OCZ Technology: Solid-State Drives Really Going Mainstream

From X-bit Lab's: OCZ Technology is primarily known for its high-performance dynamic random access memory (DRAM) modules aimed at performance-minded end-users. The company also makes power supply units, USB drives and even notebooks, but it looks like the company’s main growth driver...

Twitter declares latest application platform problems solved

From InfoWorld: The technical problems that affected the performance and availability of third-party Twitter applications in recent days have been fixed, the micro-blogging and social networking company said Monday evening.

"We have made some great progress today in tuning the...

Apple Customers Still Most Satisfied

From PC World: Apple again thrashed rival computer makers selling Windows PCs in an annual customer satisfaction survey, although by a smaller margin than last year, the poll's manager said today.

One reason, said David VanAmburg, the managing director of the American Customer...

Report: Sony's OLED TVs on hold

From CNET News.com: Nobody, least of all Sony, ever said it would be easy to start cranking out OLED TVs. It doesn't help matters to be in a financial crunch.

So it should come as little surprise that according to a report in Tuesday's Wall Street Journal (subscriber access only)...

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