Palm OS is "no more"

Palm OS is no more. ACCESS has officially renamed Palm OS to Garnet OS calling this one of two "milestones in our evolution as a leading provider of a range of technologies, solutions, platforms and products specifically designed for the mobile phone and converged device markets."

Does that mean the Treo 700p will be renamed to the 700g?

A projector for your cell phone?

Video on mobile phones and mp3 players are almost commonplace. Now the world's smallest projector technology might make the viewing experience more pleasing.

Microvision has invented PicoP, a laser-based projector that could be placed inside mobile phones, mp3 players, and similar handheld devices. The actual projector will be no larger than an Andes thin mint.

Images are not high-definition, but they do appear in a sharp 800x 600 SVGA image at a 60 HZ refresh rate. Microvision representatives said the technology inside is remarkable simply and actually resembles a DVD player's pickup head.

Microvision said consumers could see PicoP-enabled phones as early as 2008.

Read more at http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2080442,00.asp

iPhone announced (as forecasted)

Apple announced its iPhone at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco. It will be available in June with an exclusive arrangement with Cingular. The company forecasted sales of 10 million iPhones in 2008 (assuming that they can capture only 1% of mobile phones sold each year).

Immediately after the annoncements, share prices for RIM and Palm fell.

Too much spam

How much is too much spam?

1971 The first e-mail was sent by a computer engineer
50 billion Number of e-mails sent every day
45 billion Number of e-mails from spammers (that means 90% of e-mail is spam)
$50 billion The cost in lost productivity and expenses to fight spam in 2006

Source: The Times Online

Here's an interest tidbet about the term spam. According to an Internet legend, spam gets its name from the well-known Monty Python sketch set in a café where every dish comes with the tinned-meat product Spam! A spam e-mail message is defined as being both unsolicited and bulk.