Try plugging it in first.

Tick, tock, the sound of the Palm bankruptcy clock is getting louder.

9 minutes to midnight.

That place looks as deserted as a Sony Store. There are more employees than customers.

If they have to resort to creepy dancing to get people to come in from the mall, then I'm sure that's what those shameless buggers will do.

I love it. I don't know how I ever lived without flick-scrolling, and once you learn how to take advantage of the entire surface of the mouse for scrolling it's very difficult to use anything else.

And it is way, way more sensitive than the old Bluetooth Mighty Mouse. It's funny how bloated and crude the old Mighty Mouse feels after you get used to the new mouse.

Oh, there's always collection of free junk-phones to choose from. Newer smart phones cost a little more than free, but it's all pretty insignificant compared to the thousands you'll pay over the term of your contract.

And unless things turn around, they'll be giving away Palm Pre's in no time.

Palm had a window in which to save the company but it's probably passed. The Pre's performance problems have turned out to be quite severe; they didn't take a dent out of the iPhone or Blackberry, the new Androids look pretty good, and some day Microsoft may release a half decent mobile OS. It'll be pretty difficult for Palm to stay above water at this point, I think.

It might be time to start up the old Palm Bankruptcy Clock again. 10 minutes to midnight?

Yup.

It looks like a cheap knock-off of the iPhone web browser that debuted almost three years ago. It's sad how far behind some companies are.

Jorden, you need to concentrate more on your reading. No one is saying that Windows 7 is more like XP; to opposite is true.

Gav, the problem is that there are a ton of Windows users who are still running XP, and the poor quality of Vista makes them that much more suspicious about upgrading even though XP is an absolute antique compared to the state of the art on both Mac and PCs.