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PALM WEBOS 1.2.1 FIXES ITUNES MEDIA SYNC

The game's back on. Palm just announced the availability of its 1.2.1 update to WebOS for the Palm Pre and, well, that's it for the time being. It fixes Exchange mail syncing issues experienced by some users, which is nice, but for everyone else it re-enables media sync with iTunes 9.0.1, with or without the USB-IF's support. In fact, Palm has signaled its commitment to its rogue approach by improving synchronization with the Photos app to keep the album structure in tact while allowing...

GOOGLE VOICE FOR IPHONE ‘REJECTED’

The Google Voice application for iPhone has been rejected by Apple, says Google. The reason invoked by Apple is that Google Voice duplicates the dialer function included in the iPhone and replaced a “native function”, which is grounds for a rejection. The rejection would have occurred in July during a phone conversation with top executives (Apple's Phil Schiller and Google's Alan Eustace) from both companies. Apple has previously said that Google Voice was technically still being reviewed,...

LATTE ESPRESSO MEDIA PLAYER

Don’t want to follow the iPod Touch crowd? Well, it seems like the 16GB Latte Espresso media player could certainly give the iPod Touch a run for its money, not only that, it might even have the upper hand, considering that it sports a haptic touchscreen. Of course, it doesn’t have an AppStore like Apple, but considering that it’s retailing for just under $100 ($99.99 to be precise), you’d probably want to at least check it out first, if you’re looking for a new portable media player...

IPOD CONTROLS AND LOCATION SHARING INTO MOBILENAVIGATOR APP

TomTom's much-ballyhooed iPhone GPS app best step its game up, else it'll get left in the dust by none other than Navigon. The lesser-known nav company today introduced the second major update for its MobileNavigator iPhone app (our impressions are here), and the feature additions aren't anything to scoff at. For starters, the program has become the first on-board navigation app for the iPhone to gain text-to-speech functionality, and just in case hearing street names belted out through a...

LINUTOP 3 OUT TO SEDUCE MINIMALISTS

We know we expend a lot of digital ink talking about oomph and va va voom, but sometimes you just need a computer you can give to your old grandpappy and let him go wild with the Reader's Digest online edition. The Linutop 3, sporting a custom Linux OS atop a blistering 1GHz VIA C7 CPU, 1GB of RAM and a tremendously capacious 2GB SSD, is just that sort of machine. It asks for a mere €340 ($485) and 20 watts of power, and lets you expand storage by adding an internal hard drive or plugging a...