HP and Palm have entered into a definitive agreement under which HP will purchase Palm, a provider of smartphones powered by the Palm webOS mobile operating system, at a price of US$5.70 per share of Palm common stock in cash or an enterprise value of approximately $1.2 billion. The transaction has been approved by the HP and Palm boards of directors.
Read MoreHere are the latest iPhone/iPod touch/iPod/iPad apps announced. You can find ’em at the Apple App Store (http://www.itunes.com/appstore/).
Yellow Field Technologies and Coach Joe Beer has announced MyZones 1.0, exclusively for the iPhone and iPod touch. The US$3.99 app calculates training heart rate zones that can be used by runners, cyclists, triathletes from keen fitness enthusiasts to focussed racers. MyZones can calculate your personal zones from maximum heart rate, race HR data, or professional lab test results.
Read MoreNoise Industries, developer of visual effects tools for the post-production and broadcast markets, says new development partner, Luca Visual FX, has released Light Box 1.0 for the FxFactory platform.
It’s a collection of light and image enhancement tools designed to work inside Adobe After Effects CS3/CS4/CS5, Apple Final Cut Pro, Apple Motion and Final Cut Express. Light Box 1.0 includes nine customizable GPU-accelerated plug-ins and transitions.
Read MoreAT&T has published a fact sheet (http://www.att.com/Common/about_us/files/pdf/emerging_devices/iPad_fact_sheet.pdf )offering details on its iPad data service plan. As previously reported, the plan offers a recurring monthly charge with no long term contract.
For US$14.99 per month, you get 250GB; $29.99 gets you unlimited storage. Data plans for iPad include access to more than 20,000 AT&T Wi-Fi Hot Spots nationwide at no additional cost.
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Apple could put its next-generation iPhone on sale during the World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC), “sources familiar with the situation” tell “Mashable” (http://mashable.com/2010/04/28/apple-iphone-launch/), the “Social Media Guide.”
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