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Palm, ex Palm Pilot, ex leader sur le marché du PDA a eu beaucoup de mal à vivre la transition PDA-> smartphone mais a priori l’américain bosse à refaire son retard.

Présenté au CES, le Palm Pre est donc un mobile 3G disposant d’un clavier complet coulissant en plus d’un écran tactile.
L’évolution vient aussi de Palm OS, le système d’exploitation qui devient Palm WebOS et qui devrait permettre de stocker ses données online pour pouvoir y acceder de partout et faire la synchro avec l’ordinateur.

Pour l’instant mis à part la démo, personne n’a vraiment pu tester la machine, il va falloir donc attendre un peu pour en savoir plus.

J’éprouve une certaine forme d’affection pour cette marque ayant été un utilisateur il y a quelques années, malheureusement pour Palm, les efforts d’Apple, Microsoft et RIM ont creuser un réel écart. Souhaitant que la suite soit plus interessante.

Cadeau la fiche technique :

- connection haut débit UMTS HSDPA
- Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
- Récepteur GPS
- Ecran tactile 3.1 pouces avec résolution 320×480 pixels
- Clavier coulissant QWERTY (sera AZERTY pour la France)
- Email, compatibilité Outlook Exchange et POP3, IMAP
- Robust messaging support (IM, SMS and MMS capabilities)(4)
- High-performance, desktop-class web browser
- Great multimedia experience and performance (pictures, video playback, music), featuring a 3-megapixel camera with LED flash and extended depth of field, and a standard 3.5mm headset jack
- Bluetooth® 2.1 + EDR compatible A2DP stereo
- Mémoire interne 8GB (~7.4GB disponible utilisateur)
- Connecteur MicroUSB avec USB 2.0 Hi-Speed
- Capteur de proximité pour désactiver l’écran tactile et éteindre l’écran lorsque l’on approche son oreille pour téléphoner
- Capteur de luminosité pour optimiser l’autonomie et l’éclairage de l’écran
- Capteur de mouvement (accéléromètre) pour orienter l’affichage de l’écran automatiquement
- Batterie amovible et rechargeable
- Dimensions: 59.5x 100.5 (clavier fermé) x 16.95mm
- Poids: 135 grammes

votre marque/site ici - contactez moi

En compétition parmi 7 autres titres, Esthétique et filatures, le one shot de Tanxxx et Lisa Mandel paru chez KSTR vient de remporter le prix Artémisia 2009, qui récompense une Å“uvre BD réalisée par une femme. Les auteures remportent une dotation de 3000 euros et succèdent à Johanna et ses Âmes sauvages.

Benjamin J. Romano / Microsoft Pri0:
CES: Ford Sync, a Ford feature with lots of local hands involved  —  LAS VEGAS — The Sync in-vehicle information and entertainment is one thing that's gone right for Ford as automakers have struggled mightily with the recession.  The company is rolling out a third generation of Sync …

Tapulous CEO Bart Decrem sent out an email to investors yesterday updating them on the status of the iPhone/Android focused company. It was forwarded to us, and we reprint it below.

The company makes the popular Tap Tap Revenge application as well as Tweetsville and others. Like competitor Social Gaming Network, everything they touch seems to turn to gold.

In the email Decrem says they have had 5 million unique installs of Tap Tap Revenue and claim it is the third most popular application for the iPhone, after Facebook and Pandora. He also says that they have 100,000 customers who’ve paid them for apps and they went from no revenue in September to break-even in December, an important milestone.

On December 31 the company closed an additional $1 million in funding, Decrem says, adding to the $1.8+ million they had previously raised. He also says Tap Tap Revenge II will release in early February.

The rest of the email is largely a description of the disruptive aspects of the iPhone/iPod touch platform. Decrem points out that their apps work on two extremely popular Apple devices. He also points out that games is the compelling application category: “six months into the App Store, there are three times more games available on the App Store than for the Nintendo DS, five times more than for Sony PlayStation Portable - and, says BusinessWeek , Apple is on track to sell as many game-capable handsets in twelve months as Nintendo, the current market leader, has sold in its most recently reported 18 months.”

The full email:

Dear Tapulous investor,

It’s been just about a year since we created our crazy little company, six months since the launch of the App Store, and we’re kicking off a new year, so what better time to check in with all of you and provide our thoughts on the year that just passed, and 2009?

Highlights
One of our goals when we started the company was to be an early leader on a disruptive new platform. The platform has proven to be disruptive, and we are one of the leaders, arguably the leader, on the App Store:
#1 most popular game for iPhone & iPod touch for 2008
#3 most popular app overall for the US (since #2, the amazing Pandora app, is only available in the US, we have a strong feeling that Tap Tap Revenge is the #2 most popular app on the App Store worldwide, after only Facebook)
5 million unique installs on Tap Tap Revenge! (that doesn’t double-count when a user upgrades TTR)
100,000 paying customers
On December 31, we closed another financing, with most of our leading investors joining to invest another $1 million+ in the company. Not bad, in the midst of a huge economic downturn!
Tremendous buzz, including press coverage last month alone in the New York Times, BBC, Fortune, Techcrunch, Billboard, AFP, Reuters
A break-even month in December! Both advertising in Tap Tap Revenge and app sales contributed majorly, together with strong holiday sales of iPhone/iPod and iTunes gift cards

Biggest Learnings
One of the most exciting things about being one of the first on a disruptive new platform is that a new set of rules is being written, and the iPhone and iPod touch have offered no shortage of surprizing lessons!

1. It’s disruptive alright
100 million app downloads in 90 days. Holy cow. In late December, on one crazy day, we added 200,000 (!) new users to Tap Tap Revenge. When we started the company, our fundamental bet was that the iPhone was going to be different, and truly ring in the mobile decade. The first decade was about the PC revolution, the second decade was about the network, and the third decade, we believed, would be about mobile computing. It’s happening alright. The iPhone, with the new price points, is a huge hit, and the App Store has been a success beyond anyone’s dreams. When we started the company, people asked us why we didn’t focus on SMS and WAP, and some rolled their eyes when we told them our goal was to get to 1 million users in 18 months. Six months after launch, we’re at 5 million users. This technology is disruptive, and that means big new companies will be created.

2. Not just the iPhone –two hit platforms
Flying back to Southern California on Sunday after a vacation in Mexico, I looked around me on the plane and counted 6 (six!) iPhones and iPod touches in use just in the 12 seats right around me. Ever since the 3G iPhones launched, it’s started feeling like a few years back, when all of a sudden iPods were popping up everwhere. But it’s not just the iPhone that’s on fire, the iPod touch is just as important to our company. There were an awful lot of iPod touches in those stockings: we’ve heard rumors that some ad networks were seeing a million new iPod touches get activated right around Christmas day. The majority of our users are now using an iPod touch. Leave Silicon Valley (or just hang out with your younger cousins), and you’ll find a world of teenagers and consumers who weren’t ready to take the plunge on the iPhone (maybe they don’t have a phone yet, or they’re locked in multi-year contracts with their current carrier), but have now upgraded their iPods to a shiny new touch. In the process, they’ve upgraded from a great music player to a networked handheld music and gaming device.

With the iPhone and iPod touch, Apple is winning in two formerly very different spaces:
The smart phones market… really, the mobile phones market: Apple is already one of the largest phone makers in the world (#3 in revenues after only Nokia and Samsung), and hands-down the leader in smart phones and next-gen devices
The handheld gaming devices market. Who’d've thunk in July of 2007 that Apple would be rivaling Nintendo and Sony for leadership in the handheld games devices market? Well, six months into the App Sto