Computerworld – After Palm Inc. admitted that its smartphone sales were below expectations, rumors started swirling that the company might be sold, or that it could be beefing up its product line with a WiMax smartphone for Sprint Nextel.
Palm’s biggest fans say they don’t want Palm to be sold and hope the cell phone maker [...]

Network World – Although Verizon has been relatively quiet on the 4G front lately, the carrier says it’s still on track to have LTE services up and running by year-end.
Don’t expect fireworks from LTE in 2010
What’s more, Verizon is planning to aggressively expand its LTE coverage throughout the next four years so that by the [...]

IDG News Service – PocketGear said on Tuesday it had acquired Handango, creating the biggest cross-platform mobile application store.
The combined store will have more than 140,000 applications, PocketGear said. Users of Android, Symbian, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Palm, Linux and Java phones can shop for and buy applications for their phones from the sites.
Both companies in [...]

PC World – It’s not often that a product lives up to its name, but the Jabra Stone ($130, price as of February 10, 2010) does so quite literally. This sculpted black Bluetooth headset fits so neatly into its charging base that the combination looks like a smooth, black, plastic stone–albeit one with a micro-USB [...]

Network World – Cisco Spectrum Expert
I consider a Wi-Fi spectrum analyzer to be an essential tool for every consultant and every enterprise installation of any size. A spectrum analyzer isn’t a traditional datascope or packet analyzer — rather, it’s a way of seeing energy in a radio channel in an effort to verify configuration and [...]

PC World – The shape is the same, and so is Aliph’s distinctive noise-cancellation technology, but the new Jawbone Icon ($99 as of February 10, 2010) series of Bluetooth headsets sports a bit of style and a new level of user customization. And you can upgrade them in a manner usually reserved for cell phones [...]

Network World – From the Backspin “I don’t believe it” department comes this week’s top story: Insurers may raise your home insurance premiums if you use social networking.
Yep, according to Legal and General, one of the United Kingdom’s biggest home insurers: “The insurance industry is aware that, with increasing acceptance of social media, the standard [...]

InfoWorld – It can’t be easy being Ray Ozzie. Microsoft’s chief software architect is just 18 months into the job as Bill Gates’ handpicked successor, yet depending on whom you ask, his tenure will either signal a bold new era for the company or mark the beginning of its terminal decline.
From the perspective of Microsoft [...]

CIO – At the core of customer relationship management is “who am I talking with?” In a simple SFA or CRM system, it’s obvious: you called them, or they called you. But in Enterprise CRM, it’s tricky to identify exactly whom the interaction is with, and every new data source seems to make it harder. [...]

Network World – From the Backspin “I don’t believe it” department comes this week’s top story: Insurers may raise your home insurance premiums if you use social networking.
Yep, according to Legal and General, one of the United Kingdom’s biggest home insurers: “The insurance industry is aware that, with increasing acceptance of social media, the standard [...]