Vito Technology is proud to release v1.5 of Star Walk for the iPhone. Featuring a virtual astronomy lab in your pocket, you can see how different events will look in the sky on specific dates, lunar phases, and more!

This new edition features:

1. Reduced loading time (2x)
2. Real 30 FPS
3. Improved search function
4. Improved constellations images and shape (100 new ones!)

Visit your Apple apps store and get the new Star Walk for an astronomy adventure that’s pockets of fun!

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According to WMExperts, a study done with advertising requests (rather than by sales figures) by AdMob in March 2009 showed that Apple held half the share of Smartphone requests. Of course, to boost numbers the iPod Touch is tossed into the array as it runs Apple’s iPhone OS…just without the phone. With the report of actual sales figures made by both Microsoft with 20 million units sold with Windows Mobile versus Apple’s 37 million units of combined Touch and iPhones, the results of the study are inconclusive. One thing is for sure though, RIM seems to be growing pretty fast, and I’m quite shocked to see how much more popular it is compared to Windows Mobile. The other surprise for me was that Android actually ties Palm despite how long Palm has been around.

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I woke up this morning to some very disappointing news from Amazon.com, the real king of all media (it was actually posted yesterday).  Well, let me back up for a minute.  One of the features I really like on the Kindle 2 is WhisperSync, which is an easy way to get content of all types onto your Kindle.  all you have to do is email the document to a special address, and it will appear on your Kindle.  Sure, it was not always formatted exactly the way you wanted, so it does not fit perfectly onto your screen.  But you know what?  You just paid ten cents per document,n so stop that whining,

Well, this is about to change May 4.  Rather than being a flat fee per document,Amazon is changing the fee structure entirely.  It will now cost fifteen cents per megabyte.  And since all costs are rounded up, that means the minimum cost will be fifteen cents per document.  So, now, you will need to reach a little deeper into your pockets the next time you want that document converted.  Fortunately, you can avoid all of this entirely by using the alternate free conversion email (username@free.kindle.com). 

Hit the jump for the full press release (which also includes some information about new formats to be available for conversion).

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Just caught this over at TechCrunch, and all I can say is Holy (you know what).  Apparently, someone let loose that a Palm Pre 2 (or related WebOS device) could be coming as soon as this fall.  Here is about all the information TechCrunch could offer:

The details are still slim – it’s a smaller device (and hopefully that means slimmer), but it will run Palm’s new WebOS operating system that everyone is raving about. We’re trying to determine if the device has a physical keyboard – no word on that yet.

Not a lot of detail, but it does offer quite a few areas of concern.  What could news like this, true or not, mean for initial sales of the Palm Pre?  A lot of people may hear this rumor and decide to wait for the new version (it is only a few months away).  I also wonder if Palm is not rapid firing their releases in order to essentially minimize the news cycle (or attempt to) of the upcoming iPhone 3. 

Finally, and more importantly, what the heck is WebOS going to look like?  How will it work?  Most of us have not even seen a WebOS device, and this already makes the initial offering look obsolete.  Rumors, innuendo, and speculation persist.  Let us know what you think.

[via TechCrunch]

It’s funny how things go round in circles, especially in the tech world. I’ve written about “Pink” before, so I’m surprised today to see not one or two posts on other sites running with it again.

The Question is as always, what is Pink? Some have it that it’s a revived Zune phone, Others have it that it’s a new collaboration between Verizon and Microsoft to actually create an iPhone Killer, the most recent post I can find is saying Motorola is building it, I thought they were done with WinMo? The latest goes that the MotoSurf A310 from Motorola is going to be the iPhone Killer from Verizon, but hang on isn’t Verizon getting the iPhone?

This is just one of the round about, random, sorts of rumours I’ve seen evolve for a while, and to think it’s going to get bigger, and more exaggerated, will obviously happen! What is Microsoft Pink supposed to be, a hardware device produced by, who knows, to challenge the iPhone, and bring Windows Mobile to the fore front of consumer devices!

If you ask me do I have doubts? I’d say “I don’t know”

I’m ever hopeful, and not wanting to denigrate the Zune platform in any way, I just can’t see a device based on all of this speculation, emerging any time soon.

Via ZDnet