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• Price cut on Palm Pre not a sign of bad sales

  Buried amid today's announcement of the new Palm Pixi smartphone was the news that the price of the Palm Pre smartphone will drop to $150, down from $200, after rebates.

• Palm debuts its Pixi smartphone, its second using WebOS

  Palm Inc. and Sprint Nextel Inc. formally announced the second WebOS smartphone today, the Palm Pixi, and said it will be available in the US from Sprint before the Christmas holidays.

• Sprint yanks Palm Pre incentive

  Sprint has pulled a $US100 service credit for new Palm Pre buyers just hours after it made the offer.

• Steve Jobs accused of 'illegal' Palm proposal

  Steve Jobs attempted to strike a deal with Palm to prevent the rival handset maker hiring Apple employees, according to <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&amp;sid=ahgf6sIeFZ4c">Bloomberg</a>.

• Palm Pre debacle highlights location privacy issues

  Reports about Palm keeping track of Pre users have shown how location services can backfire, and the importance of making users aware of how information is used.

• Palm opens summer camp for WebOS developers

  After weeks work, a grassroots group of Palm Pre enthusiasts will launch a one day developers "camp" in 80 cities this Saturday.

• The $US99 Palm Pre is back

  The Palm Pre is going for less than a hundred bucks again, and this time you only have to rush over to your closest Web browser to get it. The online cellular retailer LetsTalk.com is offering the Palm Pre for $99.99, after a combination of mail-in and instant rebates. That means you'll pay $199.99 at the checkout, but once (or should I say if) you send in Palm's mail-in rebate you'll have bragging rights to the $99 Pre.

• Palm Pre apps toolkit fixed for Windows, Macs

  Palm has released an updated version of its webOS Mojo software developer kit, a set of frameworks and APIs for building native applications for the Palm Pre smartphone.

• Best Buy briefly sells Palm Pre for $US99 - oops!

  There were some happy shoppers coming out of Best Buy over the weekend after the big box retailer slashed the price of the Palm Pre by fifty percent. The only problem was it may have been a mistake, as other Palm Pre retail outlets including the Sprint Store did not drop their prices.

• Palm webOS gains enterprise features

  Palm has released a webOS update for the Pre smartphone that features expanded support for Exchange Active Sync policies, a change aimed at enterprise users.

• Palm Pre webOS 1.1.0 available, fixes iTunes sync

  Remember when Apple updated iTunes to version 8.2.1, breaking syncing with the Palm Pre? Well, that feature is back, along with loads of other stuff.

• Is the Palm Pre suffering from high return rates?

  The Palm Pre might be subject to excessively high return rates, according to an equities market researcher. But then again it might not.

• Palm Pre SDK is out

  The long-awaited Palm Mojo Software Development Kit, for building applications for the Palm Pre device and the webOS platform, is now generally available, a Palm blogger said on Thursday.

• Palm gets some Mojo -- webOS toolkit debuts

  Palm today announced that the webOS software development kit is available for any and all developers, sooner than expected.

• Analysis: Palm Pre sync flap, hardware issues, hurt Palm

  Since the Palm Pre launched on June 6, it has been hailed with exaggerated exuberance as an iPhone killer and reviled for pesky hardware problems.