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• We’ve just wrapped up CES, which took an interesting turn over the weekend as we head interesting comments from Microsoft on the Xbox, Intel’s Sean Maloney and Palm’s Jon Rubinstein. Full coverage here – including our stories, blog posts, videos and three special editions of the Tech Weekly podcast

• Fanning the flames of its war with Microsoft, Google said at CES on Friday that its next phone would focus on business users. Android chief Andy Rubin said might have a physical keyboard to sway heavy emailers away from Windows Mobile and BlackBerry.

• Away from the halls and corridors of Las Vegas, there was still plenty going on in the world this weekend. With airports bringing in more technology to screen passengers, US officials have said that, in part, a
reliance on technology was itself to blame for letting the Christmas bomber slip through the net. Basically, a White House review discovered that poor counterterrorism software couldn’t handle misspellings, and therefore didn’t pick up on the danger posed by Umar Abdulmutallab.

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We’ve been trawling the floors here at CES to find out what new technologies will be vying for our attention over the coming year – but it’s not just the main exhibition where the action has been taking place.

Spare a thought for Palm boss Jon Rubinstein, who has managed to stir up plenty of trouble for the company with a brief aside at a CES Q&A session that has now taken on a life of its own. In an on-stage discussion at the show, Rubinstein told Kara Swisher from AllThingsD said that he had never used an iPhone:

“We don’t pay that much attention to Apple – I know it sounds really strange,” he said. “I don’t have an iPhone. I’ve never even used one.”

Coming from any other phone maker positioning itself as a rival to Apple, that might seem like hubris. Coming from Rubinstein – who was one of Steve Jobs’s closest lieutenants until he left Apple in 2006 – it seems like something else.

Rubinstein, who took a hands-on role in product development when he arrived at Palm, is a private man. He spent years working alongside Jobs and was one of the major architects of the iPod project, which is what really helped Apple overturn its troubles and surge back to success.

So his iPhone comment is strange. Is Rubinstein suggesting that he never saw an iPhone while he worked at Apple? Or is he saying that, in the 18-month downtime, this technology industry veteran of more than 30 years didn’t have any interest in Apple’s new handset? It’s not even like he was working for Palm when the iPhone was launched: famously, he took a long holiday until he was tempted to get back into the race in October 2007.

Or is he just displaying a peculiar version of Not Invented Here syndrome?

Whatever the case, it’s hardly a capital offence. But it is the sort of thing that exposes Palm’s frailties – and the trouble it is having in drumming up momentum to keep its business alive.

We interviewed Rubinstein at last year’s event, when the company emerged as one of the big winners thanks to its launch of the Pre handset. This year, however, the company’s announcements have been relatively lacklustre – the new Pre Plus and the Pixi Plus handset (both tweaks to previous models) and the news that the company had made a deal with US network Verizon.

Those don’t seem like enough to revive the company’s fortunes, and aren’t particularly exciting for anybody outside the self-obsessed American bubble. But, once again, it just shows the shadow that Apple has cast over CES without even being here.

After all, the audience who turned up for Rubinstein’s talk came to hear about Palm – and they left talking about the iPhone.

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• Sales of Palm Pre at Carphone Warehouse fall short
• Orange sold 90,000 iPhones in the first month of offering

Carphone Warehouse is giving away two free airline tickets to anyone who buys a Palm Pre before the end of January as speculation increases that sales of the mobile phone, seen as the closest competitor to Apple’s iPhone have fallen far short of expectations.

Mobile phone network O2, which offers the Palm Pre under an exclusive deal in the UK, is believed to have mountains of unsold phones.

News of the Carphone Warehouse offer comes amid rumours that the iPhone itself is not doing very well for one of its new network partners, Orange. Sources in the retail channel maintain that Orange sold a very creditable 90,000 devices in the first month of offering the handset, but roughly nine in ten of those handsets went to people who were already Orange customers, making the iPhone effectively an upgrade for them. Orange was unavailable for comment.

Orange started selling the iPhone on 10 November, ending O2’s two-year exclusive grip on the handset, and announced it had sold more than 30,000 iPhones within hours of it going on sale. Since then, however, Tesco has started selling the device while Vodafone will start to provide the iPhone to its customers from 14 January. The fact that the device is now available on four networks in the UK, however, has not led to a price war, partly because Apple is understood to demand a say in any pricing tariffs to maintain the cachet of iPhone’s “premium” image.

The iPhone is available across O2, Orange, Tesco and Vodafone starting at about £30 a month for customers willing to pay up-front for the device. The basic iPhone 3G is available free from £35 a month but most customers want the more powerful iPhone 3GS which is free on contracts from about £45 a month.

That is the same price at which O2 makes the Palm Pre free for customers. The device was launched in the US in June and in the UK on 16 October and was supposed to resurrect the fortunes of its Californian developer. Previously, Palm created the market for so-called personal digital assistants (PDAs) with its range of handheld organisers, and dominated the smartphone market before it was eclipsed first by Nokia and then by Apple.

But while the Palm Pre has been a critical success, with reviewers saying it runs the iPhone a close second in terms of functionality, the handset has been a poor seller.In the three months to the end of November, Palm shipped 783,000 smartphones, representing a 5% decrease from the three months to August, although it does mark a year-on-year increase of 41%. Carphone Warehouse is offering anyone who buys the phone before 31 January, two free return flights to one of 15 European destinations.

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LONDON (Reuters) – The FTSE 100 hit its highest close in three weeks on Thursday as British Airways soared with investors cheered as a merger with Iberia looked imminent, while gains were also powered by strength in banks.

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It is one of the most eagerly awaited mobile phones of the year, the
closest anyone has come to rivalling – perhaps besting – the iPhone, and for its creator it is a last throw of the dice, a make or break handset, an attempt by the company that introduced us to the concept of a personal digital assistant – PDA – to recapture the glory days.

So with all that in mind, the question is: why on Earth did Palm choose to make the Pre available exclusively on O2 in the UK?

Most (not quite all) the problems with the Pre are to do with a network that seems to have slowed down dramatically in the last few weeks, and I speak as an O2 customer who – despite living and working at different ends of London’s Zone 1 cannot get decent reception at home or in the office.

The network is as riddled with holes as Emmental, and I don’t think in the week or so that I used the Pre it ever got five bars of wireless coverage.

But switch on the Wi-Fi and suddenly one of the Pre’s big selling points – multi-tasking – leaps into life. Applications, from browser pages and downloadable apps such as Twitter client Tweed to email and the camera, appear as individual “cards” on the phone’s screen that you can scroll through. It means you no longer have to stare at a blank screen while waiting for your email to update or a web page to load, you can go and do something else.

The processor only seemed to suffer significant lag when scrolling through photos and playing music at the same time.

Sticking music on the device involves plugging in a USB cable and dragging MPs files over to the device, given that Apple regularly cuts it out of iTunes. Migrating contacts was a doddle (something that can not be said of most smartphones) and it seamlessly merged phone contacts with Facebook.

The touchscreen is as good as the iPhone’s – though it is smaller, so web pages are hard to read unless you switch to landscape mode -and the addition of ripples when an icon is touched helps navigation.

Palm has obviously taken some touch staples from Apple, such as zooming in by placing two fingers on the screen and moving them apart, but introduced some new variants such as a “gesture” zone at the bottom of the screen. This means that swiping from the small button at the bottom of the device to the left acts as a back button, while swiping the whole length in either direction moves between apps.

The Palm store, by the way, is easy to navigate, but sparsely populated.

For a phone with a slide-out qwerty keyboard, the Pre is still surprisingly thin and light, but despite its polished black look it feels a bit plasticky when the keyboard is out. Incidentally the bottom ridge of the keyboard is weirdly sharp for a phone that is supposed to resemble a polished pebble.

I know Americans love physical keyboards, but I can’t help feeling the Pre would be better without it. I have never had issues with writing emails, texts or even newspaper copy with the onscreen keyboard on
the iPhone.

As with so many smartphones (including the iPhone) however, the Pre falls down when it is actually used for its basic purpose – making calls. The sound quality is poor – the person called sounds like they are stuck in a dustbin full of duvets – and reception is patchy, though again that may all be O2’s fault. Perhaps they are giving all their network capacity to the iPhone. If so, that is a terrible disservice to the Pre, which – of all the touchscreen devices to follow Apple’s lead – is by far the best.

Pros: Multi-tasking; great touchscreen
Cons: Under-stocked app store will have you looking in envy at iTunes; It’s only available on O2’s network at the moment

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Steve Townend and Dominic Keen founded MoBank in 2007 and launched the mobile banking and payment service today. The company is privately funded with a staff of 16 and offices in Odiham, Hampshire. Townend says that his biggest challenge was balancing the demands of customers and the constraints of mobile technology.

• Explain your business to my Mum.

MoBank is a brand new mobile banking service that works with your existing bank account and lets you buy and pay for stuff using your mobile phone – wherever, and whenever you want.

Right now, you can buy all sorts of things using MoBank, like cinema tickets, clothes, books, tickets, flowers, gifts and takeaways.

So, for example, if you’re on the bus home, and you decide you want to go to the cinema after work, you can use MoBank to book tickets straight from your mobile. Or, if you’re on your way out, and you realise you’ve forgotten your Mum’s birthday, you can send her flowers – ordering, buying and paying for them via MoBank on your mobile phone. Plus, we offer balance look up.

• How does that work?

You simply download the MoBank application from the Apple iTunes Apps Store either on you iPhone or on your computer, or visit our website. You then register your debit or credit card, get a secure MoBank PIN, and start to MoBank.

• How do you make money?

We charge a 50p per transaction fee or a one-off lifetime usage charge of £15 (for a limited period only). Plus, we share revenues with retailers selling through MoBank.

• Any weird business experiences so far?

What has been really spooky is that every time we have needed anything or anyone to solve a particular problem they have turned up. It feels like there is some sort of destiny attached to this project.

• What’s your background?

I’ve worked as a senior executive and director at First Direct, Egg and Barclays International.

I was innovation and customer service director at Egg, and was part of the team that built Egg into a leading online bank and developed the first online credit card.

Before Egg I was head of lending at the UK’s first telephone bank, First Direct. After Egg I moved to the Isle of Man and spent two years as operations director for Barclays Private Clients International.

• How are personalisation and recommendation part of your business?

The MoBank software platform will allow us to track consumers’ shopping habits and serve advertisements and offers that match their personal choices. We expect recommendation to play a big part in the growth of MoBank as happy users are your best advocates.

• How will you survive the second dot com crash?

If the second dotcom crash does come, and I’m not convinced it will, MoBank will ride it out because we offer a service that consumers really want and value. We will be part of their daily lives. Plus, with revenues from membership, advertising and retailers we have a robust income stream.

• How many users do you have now, and what’s your target within 12 months?

We launched at the end of May so it is early days but we are planning to have signed-up 75,000 users within the next 12 months.

• Which tech businesses or web thinkers are the ones to watch?

David Cortier-Dutton CEO, www.slicethepie.com.

• Who’s your mentor?

I look to Mark Nancarrow and Paul Gratton both past CEOs of Egg as mentors and Kevin Newman past CEO of First Direct as a personal benchmark.

• And how do you plan to survive the financial crisis?

Because we are launching in the middle of a global economic downturn we have structured the business accordingly. We are a pretty lean organisation and well funded. Our growth targets are achievable and we are offering a service that will make the lives of our users easier.

There is also a demand for what we are offering. Our big thing is making our service relevant and at the moment part of relevance is understanding customer needs in the current economic climate. Our proposition is not heavy on consequence or the pocket, it just makes doing stuff easier.

I’m sure this is a recipe for success.

• What’s your biggest challenge?

Balancing the constraints of what technology can do with the demands of consumers, for super simple banking services – all on mobile phone sized screen.

• How’s you work/life balance?

Getting a new business off the ground is tough going, so I’m working hard. The good news is that I really enjoy it and don’t live far from the office, so my work life balance is pretty good. Having said that, we could all do with a little more life and little less work.

• What’s the most important piece of software or web tool that you use each day?

Tweetdeck as it allows us to communicate what we want to say daily, as and when it happens.

• Name your closest competitors.

As our proposition offers both banking services and a convenient mobile way to pay for stuff so we don’t have any direct competitors at the moment. Banks such as First Direct provide a balance look up service but this is SMS based as opposed to web linked, and it incurs a charge while members of MoBank can check their balances fro free. The second part of our business offers a convenient and simple way to pay for stuff, using the internet from your mobile phone, so in some ways PayPal could be considered a competitor but we are first to offer this as a mobile service.

• Where do you want the company to be in five years?

Juniper Research reckons that more than 150 million consumers will be using their mobile phones for banking transactions by 2011, so I’m confident that there is a great opportunity for a sustainable business.

We expect to be providing a real alternative to traditional banks across the major international markets and have a reputation for deploying, designing and making technology highly relevant in this space. Plus, I hope we will have set a standard on balancing value for customers, workers and investors that others will want to follow.

So what do you think?

• Will retailers sign up for a new mobile payment system?
• If you are running a mobile application business, what challenges have you seen in the industry?
• How is your start-up weathering the recession?

• Mobile phones
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Didiom is doing something new in the digital music space, offering a mobile service that streams your music collection from your home library – with the added twist that users can choose to ‘bid’ for music by offering a price they think is fair.

Founded in 2005 and self funded, the New York-based company has just added tracks from 1,500 record labels to bring its track catalogue to 1.5m. Founder and chief executive Ran Assaf explains how the company hopes to break the mainstream.

• Explain your business to my Mum

“Didiom is a hybrid mobile service that allows you to stream songs, playlists and podcasts from your home computer to your phone over the air, for free, and also to buy new music from our mobile MP3 store. Unlike any other service, we give you the power to bid on more than 1.5m songs directly from your phone.

“You download two apps from our website – Didiom Desktop for your PC and Didiom Mobile for your phone. Just choose the folders where you store your audio files and playlists on Didiom Desktop, and make sure your PC and phone are connected to the internet. You’ll be surprised how quickly your library shows up on your phone. When you add new audio files to your computer, Didiom Desktop automatically scans them and makes them available for wireless streaming on your phone.

“When you find a song or album you like in the Didiom MP3 Store, you can buy it or name your own price to get deep discounts. In just a few seconds, you’ll find out if your bid has been accepted and if your music is ready for download. If your bid is rejected, you can try again as many times as you like. As an additional incentive for you to discover new music, we’re implementing a cash bonus program that pays up to a 35% bonus toward music downloads. There are never any membership or service fees. You pay only for the music you download through Didiom’s credit card service.”

• How do you make money?

“Throughout the beta period, we receive a portion of the profits made through our music store. We’re also in the process of developing additional revenue streams leveraging our placeshifting technology and huge music library.”

• How many users do you have now, and what’s your target within 12 months?

“Our beta customer base has been growing exponentially just through word of mouth. We hope to cross the 100,000-user milestone within 12 months.”

• Name your closest competitors

“Orb in the placeshifting space and Omnifone in the mobile music space.”

• What’s your background?

“I have a diverse background in business, technology, and music. Before founding Didiom, I worked for Amdocs, supervising the company’s business engagements with Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile Germany, Vodafone Ireland and Nextel. My academic background includes a bachelor’s in industrial engineering and management from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, and a master’s in entrepreneurial studies from Babson in Massachusetts. My musical background began 30 years ago with classical organ training and a lot of stage experience. Down the road, I switched to jazz piano, and now I just play free improvisations.”

• How are personalisation and recommendation part of your business?

“You can personalise your favorite artist list and get an alert sent to your Didiom mailbox when new albums released by your favorite artists are available in our music store. If you want to recommend a song available in our store to friends, you can have a sample sent to your friend’s email or Didiom inbox.”

• How do you plan to survive the downturn?

“Cutting down on anything and preserving cash.

“One of my favorite professors at Babson, the late Jeffry Timmons, used to say “happiness is a positive cash flow”. Creating a positive cash flow is the key to surviving a dot com crash, though I doubt there would be one in the foreseeable future.”

• What’s your biggest challenge?

“Entering the mainstream through the fragmented mobile market.”

• Which tech businesses or web thinkers are the ones to watch?

“Paul Graham of Y Combinator.”

• Who’s your mentor?

“Three grey-haired gentlemen with rich life experience and tremendous wisdom: Joe Kelley, Ron Weiner, and Bob Jamieson.”

• How’s you work/life balance?

“Doing a startup is not a walk in the park, especially when you have extremely limited resources. I spend as much time as I can with my 2.5 year old son and wonderful wife. Without her tremendous support, it would have been impossible to get Didiom off the ground. Unfortunately, I have little time to hang out with friends and family.”

• What’s the most important piece of software or web tool that you use each day?

“My web browser.”

• Where do you want the company to be in five years?

“With enough resources to help shape the future of digital media.”

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So what do you think?

• Is there enough room in the digital music space for this service?

• How can mobile-based music services overcome the design challenges of mobile handsets?

• Does this kind of service need to break the mainstream, or is it enough to target the music-tech hardcore?

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• Digital music and audio
• Mobile phones
• Digital media

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Britain’s largest mobile phone operator sees off Vodafone and Orange in fight to stock Palm Pre

O2 is set to follow up its success with the iPhone in the UK by grabbing an exclusive deal to stock the device that gadget fans reckon is the closest thing to a real competitor to the Apple device, the Palm Pre.

The UK’s largest mobile phone operator, with more than 20 million customers, is understood to have seen off fierce competition for the new handset from Vodafone and Orange, and it will be available in the UK in time for the crucial Christmas period.

Palm, which popularised handheld computers called personal digital assistants (PDAs) such as the Palm Pilot in the 1990s, is hoping that the Pre will get it back into the lucrative market for smartphones, having lost out to rivals including Nokia and RIM, maker of the BlackBerry. Though the recession has brought overall growth in mobile phone sales to a spluttering halt, demand for high-end devices that can access the internet, send emails and play music, as well as allow calling and texting, has proved more resilient.

Last week, Palm announced that the Pre will be available in the US from next month under an exclusive deal with mobile network Sprint, for $199.99 (£129) on a two-year contract. Stocks of the device are limited, however, which is why gadget fans outside the US will have to wait several months before it becomes available.

As well as a touchscreen that reviewers have compared favourably with that found on the iPhone, the Pre has a slide-out full qwerty keyboard, making emails easier to type than on the Apple device. It also has an eye-catching way of recharging: rather than being plugged in, it has to be placed on what Palm calls its Touchstone and charges through magnetic induction.

For O2, who refused to comment, getting the Palm Pre will add another must-have gadget at a time when Apple is expected to open up the iPhone to other operators in the original four markets – the US, UK, France and Germany – where it initially opted for exclusive deals.

Expanding the number of operators able to stock the iPhone comes as a new model is unleashed on the market. Apple is also expected to unveil a new version of the handset within the next few months, possibly as early as early June, at its worldwide developers conference in San Francisco next month. That event is also expected to provide the first sight of Apple’s latest device, a tablet computer that would bridge the gap between the iPhone and iPod Touch and its laptops.

The iPhone has already sparked a host of copycat touchscreen devices – from the Nokia 5800 and X-Series Walkman to the HTC Magic and G1, both of which run Google’s new Android operating system – and more are expected as the year progresses. RIM is understood to have developed a new version of its BlackBerry Storm touchscreen device that its US partner Verizon Wireless, part-owned by Vodafone, is expected to launch next month. Though the original Storm, which Vodafone and Verizon had under an exclusive deal, has sold well, it received a poor critical reception.

The new version does away with one of the original device’s most annoying features – SurePress, which required the user to press down the screen in order to type or select icons – and opts instead for a traditional touchscreen feel.

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LONDON – Liverpool Street Station was forced to close for around 90 minutes on Friday night after being over-run by dancers mimicking the T-Mobile “dance” ad.

According to reports, more than 13,000 people congregated on the station concourse for a silent disco at 7pm last Friday, organised through the social networking site Facebook.

The flashmob prompted police to close the station for fears of overcrowding, and some arrests were made for public order offences.

People had travelled from all around the country to be part of the event, and the concourse was so congested that there was very little room for participants to dance.

Some climbed on top of ticket office machines and notice boards to perform their routines, while one man stripped naked on a raised platform to cheers from the other dancers.

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Complete mobile office. Bring your office on the road. 3G gives you the speed you need. And you have full office applications on your phone – view and edit documents on the go.

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Weighing in at a respectable 124g, the P1i is a 3G phone that manages to pack a powerful array of features into its compact and stylish chassis. The large 2.6 inch screen is of particular note – its high-res transflective display enables the user to operate the P1i in difficult lighting conditions. The 3.2 megapixel camera with, autofocus and flash is top-notch, and good enough for taking print quality snaps. For after work hours the P1i offers a generous range of entertainment features including FM radio, Media Player, 3D games, picture blogging, and video capture/streaming.

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* TrackID^TM

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* Infrared port

* Modem

* WLAN

* USB mass storage

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* Picture wallpaper

* Jog Dial

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