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Why did Matias Duarte leave Palm?

Today, Engadget posted their recording of an exclusive interview with previous webOS design guru, Matias Duarte. As the designer for our favorite mobile OS, Matias had a lot of impact. He brought the many subtle design cues, the multitasking …

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Google Releases Competitor to Ares

Google today announced the beta release of App Inventor, a visual design tool similar to Palm’s Ares.  The tool aims to allow the creation of Android applications without the need to learn programming.  Similar to Ares, App Inventor allows …

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Google Answers Come to webOS!

Here’s a bit of fun news we found on Google’s Mobile Blog today. You can now ask “Uncle Google” a question… just about any question in the mobile browser, and get the answer to it. Billed as the perfect …

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Google Latitude Assistant Review

I’m really big on using location-based social networking. I joined Brightkite while it was still in private Beta and have since added Foursquare and Gowalla. But the most difficult network has always been Google Latitude.

When it first came out I was …

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Palm App Catalog vs Android Market… A Tale of Tails

In January, we wrote a detailed piece comparing the progress of the Palm App Catalog in the first six months versus Android Market. Based on that data, our good friend Craig Froehle made some predictions on what the …

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