http://www.macnn.com/ MacNN is the leading source for news about Apple and the Mac industry. It offers news, reviews, discussion, tips, troubleshooting, links, and reviews every day. The best place for Mac News. Period. en-us http://images.macnn.com/images/macnn-logo-bw.gif http://www.macnn.com/ http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/27/acer.expects.more.android.devices/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/acerliquid.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Acer's mobile head Aymar de Lencquesaing said in an interview late Thursday that the company plans to shift its attention more towards Android and reduce its Windows Mobile effort. Although all of the company's 10 smartphones this year save for the Liquid A1 were running Windows Mobile, the executive promised Reuters that 2010 will be "much more balanced" and see significantly more Android phones... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/27/acer.expects.more.android.devices/ Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:00:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/24/palm.online.sync.fails.for.some.users/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/palmpre-contacts.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Owners of Palm's newer phones have encountered a flaw in its online backup system that has wiped out contacts and calendars. A portion of users note that backups sent to Palm's Profile cloud service from a Pre (and now Pixi) are being corrupted and blank out any synchronized data when the phone has to be reset or restored. Those without a local backup, such as through an app like Missing Sync, h... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/24/palm.online.sync.fails.for.some.users/ Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:55:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/24/best.buy.black.friday.deals.now.official/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/bbblackfri.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Best Buy has posted its Black Friday specials online, confirming many of the prices and deals that were seen in a leaked flyer as well as some new doorbuster deals. The new deals include a Palm Pre handset priced at $80, matching a recent sale price at Amazon, as well as a 15.6-inch HP G60 notebook powered by a 2.2GHz Intel Celeron processor priced at $197. Unlike the other deals, the HP notebook ... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/24/best.buy.black.friday.deals.now.official/ Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:35:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/23/admob.sees.apple.android.jump.in.oct.09/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/iphone3gs-3sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Apple devices now represent exactly half of all smartphone traffic on the Internet, AdMob said today in its report for October. The iPhone has gained 10 percent of absolute share since August to reach 50 percent while Symbian has fallen again to 25 percent. Apple has identical share in the US.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/23/admob.sees.apple.android.jump.in.oct.09/ Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:10:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/20/pegatron.demos.10.inch.smartbook.with.ubuntu/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/pegatronnetbookin.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />A 10-inch smartbook from Pegatron was spotted at the Connected Community Technical Symposium on Friday. It runs on Linux Ubuntu and is powered by an ARM processor, though other details are scarce. The sighting comes just one day after Pegatron GM Chou Biao Sheng said the company will bring out a smartbook in the first quarter of 2010, priced at less than $200.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/20/pegatron.demos.10.inch.smartbook.with.ubuntu/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:00:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/19/palm.pixi.now.at.25.pre.at.80/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/palmpixi-ad.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />The recently launched Palm Pixi handset is now selling for just $25 at Amazon, or about $75 less than it did at launch, though it still requires a two-year contract with Sprint. It's not known why the price cut has been made just days after the phone's release.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/19/palm.pixi.now.at.25.pre.at.80/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:00:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/17/analysts.see.palm.at.verizon.next.year/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/palmpre-sprintsm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Palm may prove to be Verizon's best hope if the Droid line doesn't bear fruit, Kaufman Bros analyst Shaw Wu said in a note today. He points to contacts within the cell industry and supply chain that suggest Verizon will carry one or more of Palm's webOS phones, such as the Pre or Pixi, sometime in 2010. Sales of both the Motorola Droid and HTC's Droid Eris have purportedly been "somewhat disappo... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/17/analysts.see.palm.at.verizon.next.year/ Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:30:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/16/palm.releases.webos.131.for.pre.pixi/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/palmpre-flash.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Palm on Friday announced users of the Pre smartphone on both the Sprint network and Bell in Canada will receive an automatic over-the-air software update to webOS 1.3.1. The Palm Pixi, released on Sunday, shipped with the updated operating system as well. A number of new features are made possible with the new OS, and some known issues were resolved. One such new feature is the integration of Yaho... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/16/palm.releases.webos.131.for.pre.pixi/ Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:45:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/13/old.rumor.of.nokia.buying.palm.resurfaces/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/palmpre-adsm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Palm stock climbed over 8 percent on Friday after speculation that it would be bought out by Finland-based Nokia. Trading was about 15 times heavier than usual in the morning and remained heavy until the end of the day. The spike mirrored a similar increase from late September.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/13/old.rumor.of.nokia.buying.palm.resurfaces/ Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/13/moto.droid.sales.may.have.accelerated/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/motodroid-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />A new set of extrapolated data from location network developer uLocate suggests that active users of the Droid may have more than doubled in the first week of sales. Third-party estimates indicated that Verizon may have only sold 100,000 launch units, but uLocate says it will have detected about 25,000 new Droids on its network by Saturday. As uLocate's information usually represents about 10 pe... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/13/moto.droid.sales.may.have.accelerated/ Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:35:00 GMT