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Someone’s gotta help Palm out. After the somewhat lukewarm response to the Pixi and the Pre, it’s rather surprising that Verizon would decide to place a big order.

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Rumor: Verizon orders 400,000 Palm handsets

Pre-thinking brings us the latest Tamara Hope Pre Ad with young Tamara talking more to her Pre than directly at us. Interestingly, Tamara looks much better when she isn’t Palm’s ghoulish Pre homunculus.

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Palm Pre Girl stops talking right at you

Before you watch this be warned it’s pretty graphic. I’ve seen plenty of people swerving because of texting - one guy I saw was on his old, ratty Nokia rolling from lane to lane as he texted whoever was most important in his life while traveling 75MPH on I75 in Ohio - and this PSA really shows what can, and probably will happen, in a terrible number of texting-while-driving cases.

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Anti-texting while driving message hits home WARNING GRAPHIC

Didja hear that RadioShack is rebranding ? The hoopla will of course include some sales to drive traffic

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The Shack to sell the Palm Pre for $150 this weekend

Palm has hired the smallest SVP in the world, Jeff Zwerner, to be in charge of its branding initiatives.

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Palm hires Apple guy to do its branding

I have an ancient — and gigantic — Umax scanner I’ve been hanging onto for what feels like eternity for the two or three times every year when I need to scan something.

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Doxie: the amazing scanner for documents

What happens when you drop 42 metric tons of water on a little blue car from the shovel of a Liebherr R9800 Excavator? A huge detailing headache. via Neatorama

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World’s worst car wash

Truth be told, I actually like the looks of this old-timey speaker very much. And it’d go perfectly with my newfangled “digital” music collection

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Retro wooden speaker uses memory cards, features rechargeable battery

If you weren’t one of the lucky ones that happened to snag a Palm Pre for $99 at Best Buy the other weekend thanks to a pricing snafu, LetsTalk.com has a deal for you.

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CrunchDeals: $99 for a Palm Pre today only

Verizon confirmed in an analyst conference call that the Palm Pre, the little smartphone the could, will be available on Verizon’s network between Q1 and the end of Q2 next year. This should come as a relief to people who are waiting to ditch their Blackberry Storms for Palm’s new offering. There’s not much more info than that: they just said it would happen.

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Verizon to sell Palm Pre next year, long national nightmare is over