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Today in Tech: HP-Palm tablet sneak peek, white iPhone 4

A curated selection of the day's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web.

"It's a 'scaled-up smartphone' -- that's a bizarre product in our view." -- Apple COO Tim Cook on current Android tablets (TechCrunch)

Apple announced a record first quarter with sales of $26.7 billion, up 70.5% compared with last year, profits of $6 billion, up 77.7%, iPhone sales of 16.2 million units, up 85.8%, iPad sales of 7.33 MORE

Android's User Interface designer talks about what's next

Matias Duarte talks Honeycomb and why there might not be any buttons on your next tablet or smartphone.

Here's a fantastic interview from Engadget with Matias Duarte, the man brought in to polish the Google (GOOG) Android interface in May.

You couldn't ask for a more impressive resume.  He's the guy behind one of the first smartphones, the Danger Sidekick as well as the Helio interface.  Most recently, he came from Palm after the MORE

Today in Tech: Mac App store peek, Chrome OS app sales disappoint

A curated selection of the day's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web.

"He doesn't really want people to live. He loves people because they have made him wealthy beyond every human being's wildest imagination. That's why he loves people." -- eccentric country-folk performer Will Oldham on Bill Gates

Tomorrow, Apple launches its Mac App Store, which ought to make the app discovery, payment, and installation process -- we're talking MORE

CES 2011: There will be tablets

Dozens of tablets! Dual-core processors in your phone! LED backlighting for everyone! Live in 3D, with the inevitable pounding headache! Here's our preview of what's coming out of Vegas this week.

Take your typical Best Buy (BBY) store and multiply it by 100,000. Next, throw in quarter-mile long lines for everything food-related. Add the unmistakable arrival of the adult entertainment industry. Combine all that, and you pretty much have a feeling MORE

Today in Tech: Palm's iPad competitor, Playstation Phone, Verizon iPhone song

A curated selection of the day's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web.

HP and Palm may introduce three models of the PalmPad, a tablet aimed squarely at taking down the iPad, at this January's CES. All three will run a new version of Palm's WebOS, and a fourth student edition, will be showed off later on. Other features will include: a weight of 1.25 lbs., a USB 3.0 MORE

Today in Tech: News around the Web

A round-up of the companies, deals, and trends that made headlines.

Every day, the Fortune staff spends hours poring over tech stories, posts, and reviews from all over the Web to keep tabs on the companies that matter. We've assembled the morning's most newsworthy bits below.

Here come the iPad wannabees

There are at least 32 in the works. Technologizer has the definitive round-up.

Nothing breeds imitation in high tech like a runaway Apple (AAPL) success. Even before the iPad was unveiled, Cupertino's competitors were scrambling to catch up. Now that Steve Jobs' latest invention is clearly a hit, the rush is on.

How many iPad wannabees are out there or in the works? Technologizer's Harry McCracken stopped counting at 32, but he MORE

Why Nokia's Android snub is a big mistake

The handset maker is banking its future on its new MeeGo OS. But success would come much easier if it just gave Google some love.

In a market nowadays dominated by Google's Android, Apple's iOS, and BlackBerry OS, it's pretty easy to overlook Nokia. The cell phone giant, which made a name for itself in the 1990s and early 2000s with striking cell phone designs has seen its global majority MORE

Can HP take on Google and Apple?

It certainly could, if it were willing to spend what it takes, says an analyst. But that's a big if.

"Without significant increase in spending to woo channel and software partners," writes Rodman & Renshaw's Ashok Kumar in a provocative note to clients issued Monday, "HP's acquisition of Palm will likely fail."

Kumar offers a scenario in which HP (HPQ) revives Palm's (PALM) flagging WebOS platform and successfully challenges both Apple (AAPL) MORE

How the iPad gobbles up netbook sales

Also getting cannibalized: iPod touches, eReaders, desktop PCs and handheld videogames

There's an interesting chart in a report to clients issued early Thursday morning by Morgan Stanley's Katy Huberty.

The subject of her report is last week's acquisition of Palm (PALM) by Hewlett Packard (HPQ). In Huberty's bull-case scenario, HP builds a tablet computer around Palm's WebOS that not only competes with Apple's (AAPL) iPad, but captures 15% of the tablet market.

What MORE