Scooplet: the Palm Pre syncs with iTunes

It came up briefly at CES in January when a Palm (PALM) representative let the cat out of the bag (see here). Nobody followed up.

But with more and more Palm Pres appearing in the wild -- in the hands of Palm employees, Elevation partners, one of my high-school buddies, even the Boy Genius -- we can now confirm this little secret:

Plug a Pre into a Mac and it syncs, seamlessly, MORE

Yahoo CEO says everything's for sale, at a price

Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz says she'll sell, but there's more to it than that. Photo: Yahoo

Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz, not one for mincing words, took the stage at the D7 conference in Carlsbad, Calif. on Wednesday and said yes, she is willing to sell Yahoo's (YHOO) search business or all of Yahoo – for "boatloads" or "big boatloads" of money, respectively.

As always, the tech press ate this up.  TechCrunch's Erick MORE

The iPhone casts a giant shadow on the Web

Here's a pie chart that should warm Steve Jobs' heart.

That big blue slice covering 59% of the pie represents Apple's (AAPL) share of the U.S. smartphone traffic in April as measured by AdMob, the world's largest purveyor of ads on mobile apps and websites.

By the same measure, Apple also had the lion's share -- 43% -- of the mobile Web traffic worldwide.

The point of the "AdMob Mobile Metrics Report" for MORE

Analyst gives Apple a boost

Eight months ago, Morgan Stanley and RBC Capital both downgraded Apple (AAPL), triggering the company's worst selloff in eight years, a 23-point drop that lopped nearly $18 billion off its market cap.

RBC's Mike Abramsky reversed his position last month, raising his price target for Apple from $95 to $165.

On Tuesday Morgan Stanley's Kathryn Huberty followed suit, raising her target from $105 to $180 and sparking a rally that lifted Apple's MORE

Palm Pre launch plans leaked

It's labeled "Sprint confidential information for internal use only," and accompanied by a warning that any "improper sharing" is considered a leak, will be investigated, and could result in "termination."

But that didn't prevent a copy of Sprint's business/executive launch guide for the Palm Pre from falling into the hands of the sleuths at Engadget, who published the 21-page document in its entirety on Sunday.

It's chock full of juicy details -- MORE

Rumor roundup: All about the new iPhone

With two weeks to go before Apple's (AAPL) World Wide Developers Conference -- the venue at which Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone 3G last year -- rumors about the next-generation iPhone are reaching critical mass.

Many signs -- including the spot shortages of current-generation iPhones that appeared this week -- point to June 8 as the day of the unveiling and mid-July as the launch window, although nothing about the timing MORE

Analyst: 'Dramatically' different Apple tablet in 2010

The touchscreen tablet computer that is widely expected to be Apple's (AAPL) answer to those $300 netbooks will cost more, come later and be more dramatically different than most investors expect.

That's the thrust of a note to clients posted by Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster early Thursday.

According to Munster, the device will fill the gap between the iPod touch and the MacBook, cost between $500 and $700, run App Store apps MORE

PC biz headed for a wireless shakeup

A sign of things to come? In its Atlanta stores, AT&T is selling the Acer Aspire One for $49 with a 2-year wireless data plan and DSL signup. Image: Acer

PC retail is in rough shape again, and it's about to get rougher.

Evidence of hardship is everywhere. Hewett-Packard (HPQ), the world's largest computer maker, says it's selling about the same number of computers as a year ago, but getting a lot MORE

iPhone market share doubled in Q1 - Gartner

Apple (AAPL) and Research in Motion (RIMM) were the big winners in the first quarter of 2009, according to a report on the mobile phone industry issued by Gartner, Inc. on Wednesday.

Against a backdrop of weakening sales, smartphones -- and in particular, touchscreen smartphones -- were the exception.

According to Gartner, worldwide mobile phone sales totalled 269.1 million units in 2009 Q1, down 9.4% from 2008. But smartphone sales exceeded 36.4 MORE

Stanford's iPhone U: The rise of the armchair coder

The news from Stanford University this week that the free video podcasts of computer science course CS 193P -- iPhone Application Programming -- have been downloaded a million times is at once a bigger deal, and a smaller one, than it seems.

Smaller because the number is a little bogus. The university is counting each video separately, so although the total is more than a million -- 1.2 million to be MORE