// Kindle 2 hits the streets

Kindle’s out, The Economist thinks the eBook is about to have its iPod moment. The new Kindle, while being touted as a big step up from version one of the device, is only really an incremental improvement on the product it replaces. 

// PalmOS bites the dust

PalmOS, which through the Palm Pilot singlehandedly brought the PDA into the mainstream, is no longer going to be developed. WebOS, the platform running on the newly launched Palm Pre is the next big thing for Palm. Given the accolades the Pre has been getting, Palm could be onto something good here.

// Everyone gets an App Store

Seven months after Apple launched their App Store, some of the competition have scraped together something for themselves. In addition to the Android Market, Samsung is going to launch one, and Nokia isn’t far behind. Look forward to some intense competition on this front; it’s unclear to me whether customers will be winners while the platform battle is going on, but it’s going to be interesting to see who can get scale.

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