ShareBy Michael Santo
Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
The word finally comes to mind. On Thursday, Palm announced that it was releasing the Mojo SDK for webOS, its new platform, to the public. The company has been criticized for withholding the SDK at a time when it desperately needs more applications for its nascent App Catalog.
Here’s what Palm [...]

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Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
In the past, bills have been introduced to prevent pedestrians from text messaging while crossing the street, though I am unaware of any that made it into law. Perhaps such a law would have saved this teen from a ton of embarrassment.
Alexa Longueira, 15, of Staten Island, fell into an open [...]

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Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is likely downing a ton of aspirin this morning, as Google has announced that it is developing a PC operating system based on its Chrome browser. Unlike Microsoft’s current OS (Vista) and upcoming one (7), it will be all shiny and new (like Chrome!), not full of [...]

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Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
Songbirds and Warner Bros. cartoon character Tweety Bird had best beware: Twitter is attempting to trademark the term “Tweet.” Don’t bother checking your calendar; it’s July, not April (Fool’s Day).
Seriously though, there are plenty of services opening up using the term Tweet, and although Tweet is a generic term (and thus [...]

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Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
Nero is synonymous with creating, ripping, copying and burning data to optical media on the Windows platform.  The Nero 9 suite was recently reviewed here on DigitalReviews Network.
The latest addition to the family is Nero BackItUp & Burn, which can be probably best described in some ways as Nero “lite”.  Nero [...]

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Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
A little over twelve months ago DigitalReviews came across BlueLounge, a company that specialises in simple solutions to daily problems.  Previously we reviewed The Sanctuary and fell in love with it.  The Sanctuary remains one of the favourite items this reviewer has the pleasure of reviewing.
Now BlueLounge has generously provided a [...]

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Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
When Windows 7 pricing was announced, the half-price promotions they announced for upgrades to Windows 7 Home Premium and Windows 7 Professional were applauded, while at the same time the question emerged: what, no Family Pack? While there’s still no official announcement, there is evidence that such a pack may exist.
Those [...]