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POPSiPhone 3GS vs. Palm Pre BillShrink.com CEO Peter Pham explains why someone would choose the iPhone over the Palm, and vice versa. His company helps users decide on the best phone to meet their needs across all networks
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POPS"Prime" Ain't What It Used To Be Those nice prime borrowers are getting hit hard. Delinquencies were up 50% last month, and yet the after-shock of the U.S.'s rising unemployment rate has yet to really kick in...
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POPSPalm Pre Launch Nears With First Print Ad As Gearlog notes, when a carrier pays hundreds of thousands to run a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal, it means a phone is launching soon--within weeks. Sprint has done just that for the much-anticipated Palm Pre--pictured above, along with Twitter's Bluebird mascot.
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POPSOutsiders Serve Up iPhone Nanos Outsiders meaning firms with absolutely no connection to Apple. Ubergizmo spotted this clamshell, iPod-like design (above) from China's HiPhone. Other knockoffs (like the second example, from Thailand) are just scaled-down versions of the original iPhone. Apple will likely update the iPhone line in June.
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POPSSolar Power From Space! Cool idea: collect solar energy via satellite, convert it into radio signals, beam it down to Earth, and convert it into electricity. As commenters note, it's an idea that's been kicked around since the 1960's. But a new agreement between PG&E and Solaren Corp. means it's likely to actually happen.
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POPSFacebook users get worse grades Pay heed to the author of the survey -- this is not actually proof of a correlation between Facebooking and poor academic performance. But it raises interesting questions -- and if my own experiences procrastinating on facebook are any measure, there may be something to it.
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POPSSilicon Valley Gets Stung Job losses in techland jumped earlier this year, as the recession made its way from Wall Street to Silicon Valley. Will these jobs return? Or did many end up overseas, permanently?
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POPSNearly One Billion iPhone Apps Downloaded Apple has placed a counter on its site to mark its impending one billionth app served. The giveaways (free MacBook Pro, etc.) are no doubt helping goose numbers, but Apple's been doing pretty well without them--remember, the App Store only launched 9 months ago. It's mesmerizing to watch the counter flip...click through to see.
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POPSConficker Starts...Well, Doing Something The first seven words of this story are pretty telling. Basically, we still don't know what the megaworm is up to. If it were simply keylogging, as Trend Micro speculates, that could mean major identity theft. But it would also be much less scary than some of the distributed denial of service scenarios others cybarmageddon scenarios others have worried about.
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POPSThe Return of Zombie Circuit City? Despite its high-profile collapse and liquidation, Circuit City still has a very well known and valuable brand name -- some smart retailer could revive it online.
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POPSScotland's Stem Cell Strategy Forbes Kerry Dolan talks with the Health Minister of Scotland about why that country has the edge over the U.S. in embryonic stem cell research and what the U.S. must do to catch-up.
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POPSWe Pay You To Buy Our Cars Demand for cars would be drastically lower if it weren't for very generous financing by auto-makers. But a larger point here: governments are picking the winners and losers in the auto industry. Toyota gets aid for financing purchases; of course Honda gets in line.
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POPSNew Car? Thank You Taxpayer! Let me get this straight... taxpayers are keeping GM afloat. And now GM is keeping its customers afloat... with taxpayer dollars. Huh?
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POPSSony drops price of PS2 This 9-year-old console is still one of the major focuses of Sony's game business --both a testament to the console's power and the inaccessibility of the PS3.
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POPSHealthy Travel Tips Forbes Publisher Rick Karlgaard travels 200,000 miles a year. Here's how he stays on top of his game on the road!
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POPSReasons Not To Make An IPhone Application iPhone apps aren't a sure thing, Ad Age cautions marketers. That said, as CTIA--the big wireless trade show--kicks off this week, there's sure to be a lot of news surrounding new iPhone apps.
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POPSTelecommute From This Office "Pod" This pod office geared toward telecommuting workers will be available in the UK starting in January. Annual fees will run about $7,200. Does it look cozy or claustrophobic?
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POPSSoftware in Plain English Good primer for the uninitiated, and a good explanation for we geeks who might need to explain things a little bit better next time.
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