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ICM Registry Closes Sunrise Period With 80000 Applications for .XXX Domain Names MarketWatch (press release) About ICM Registry: ICM Registry, headquartered in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, is the registry operator for the .XXX sponsored top-level domain as approved by ICANN in 2011. ICM Registry provides the management and supporting infrastructure for this … and more

Palm and HP will be participating in MobileBeat 2010 . First, Phil McKinney, VP and CTO of HP Personal Systems Group will be giving the keynote address Monday morning.

New Dates for PDK Hot Apps Promotion webOS 1.4.5 is critical for consumers to access and download PDK applications and we are working hard to get it out to consumers as soon as possible. We expect that 1.4.5 will be available from more carrier partners soon

Weather is something that affects each of us, and yet while we can’t control weather (at least not yet), many of us like to know the weather conditions each day.  One of the most popular paid weather applications on the Palm Hot Apps leader board, and my personal forecasting tool, is WeatherBug Elite. Getting started with the application is easy; simply allow the application access to your GPS location, and it will automatically display the weather in your immediate area.

Garbage collection is a subject that comes up with developers all the time. We all want to make sure our applications don’t leak memory, and we also want to optimize our applications for performance and memory use

Ben and I had the real pleasure of hosting a Palm Developer Day event at our Sunnyvale headquarters.

The third and fourth lectures of the Stanford Developing for Mobile Applications series are now online and available. Episodes #1 and #2 were posted previously . Episode 3 is on the Mobile User Experience and given by Jeremy Lyon

Seybold's Take: A return to the (walled) garden Fiercemobilecontent Want to access iTunes from a different device, maybe a Palm Pre ?

You may have noticed a new option on the “App Info” page when submitting or updating your applications – a place to enter a YouTube URL. With the release of webOS 1.4, your application’s page in the App Catalog can now link to a YouTube video about your app.

Now this is intriguing. PocketGear has just acquired its former competitor Handango in the cross-platform app store space, and can now claim a library of software that places it right alongside Apple’s App Store in terms of the pure number of applications on offer.

Inventek Systems Formally Releases the New ISM300F2-C4.1 GPS Module Ideal for Hand Held GPS Applications The ISM300F2-C4.1 is an exact pin for pin replacement for the ISM300F2-C4, so no Changes are required for users electing to go with this package. Customers who already have the ISM300F2-C4 may be able to upgrade to the new firmware build. Contact engineering@inventeksys.com for more details.Inventek Systems’ new version firmware build is based on the SiRF GSW3.5 build.

Dion Almaer (aka Director of Palm Developer Relations and my boss) has been busy getting his hands dirty in WebOS and is starting to write about it on his blog . Gearing up your applications to be touched and the horizontal scroll is an interesting look at some of the things you need to consider in taking content designed for the desktop and making it usable in a mobile browser

Appmodo Palm App Catalog now has 1135 Applications My Pre By today we now have 1135 applications available for our Palm Pre and Pixi handsets, yes we know is a holiday, but is good to know that some folks at Palm … New in the App Catalog for 18 January 2010 PreCentral.net (blog) all 3 news articles