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Update: And lo behold: with 30 minutes of launching, the fanboys brought down the site. It is unreachable as of 11:30 AM PST. Delicious irony here. The founders of two of the biggest and most well known gadget sites Engadget and Gizmodo have finally launched their gadget site, appropriately titled…

The conventional wisdom around Palm’s comeback device is that the Pre has been overshadowed by the launch of the latest iPhone, which has put a damper on sales. But have the number of Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Pre’s sold so far been seriously underestimated? Charter (NSDQ: CHTR) Equity Research analyst Edward…

What to make of the iPhone game Sally’s Spa, which for two weeks was the App Store’s top selling paid application? The WSJ Digits blog takes its best-selling status as evidence that the App Store is now drawing in a wider demographic from the store’s usual base of “business people,…

With Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) demonstrating that there is almost as big of a market for the iPod Touch as there is for the iPhone, it’s no wonder that Dell is considering crafting a pocket-sized device that will connect to the internet (but won’t be capable of making calls). The WSJ…

Sony (NYSE: SNE) may be developing a new phone that would better compete with the iPhone and be offered as an alternative to the PlayStation Portable. The device would likely go beyond the “Aino,” which Sony Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) unveiled last month, and allows users to tap into their PlayStation…

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) started reporting limited iPhone shortages on Friday in 29 of its 257 stores across the country, according to IFOAppleStore, a website that closely watches Apple’s retail business (via Fortune). Shortages are only reported on Apple’s website in times of scarcity. The site, which was last seen in…

RIM’s Co-CEO Jim Balsillie didn’t convince everyone when he said during the company’s last conference call that “the line-up for the next 14-15 months is spectacular, and the engagement with the carriers is fantastic,” and that the company has vector winds blowing the company’s sails. GC Research analyst Tero Kuittinen…

Lines started forming in at least Japan and Australia as Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) kicked off its second worldwide release of the iPhone 3G S today, Bloomberg reports. The phone also went on sale in Austria, Belgium, Ireland and the Netherlands, and is now on sale in 14 countries—eight others debuted…

HTC, the Taiwanese smartphone maker, released its third Android device on Wednesday, along with a new user interface it calls Sense. The slickness of the device and its navigation has once again brought the former white label cellphone maker into the spotlight.

Mobile, it seems, remains one of the few bright spots in venture capital. Bob Borchers has left his post as Apple’s senior director of worldwide product marketing for the iPhone to join venture capital firm Opus Capital as a general partner,  the WSJ.com reports. The 43-year-old Borchers, who first arrived…

Everyone assumed that the iPhone app launched yesterday, featuring topless ladies was there with Apple’s blessing since the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) added parental controls in the latest iPhone software update. Not true. TechCrunch is reporting that Apple has pulled the app, “Hottest Girls,” from its shelves, but not before everyone…

Best Buy plans to open 40 standalone mobile phone stores this fiscal year in a bid to capture 15 percent of the US mobile phone market, its incoming CEO Brian Dunn said Wednesday. The WSJ.com reports that this would quintuple Best Buy’s current market share of 3 percent.

The Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Pre may only have around 30 applications available to it so far, but that hasn’t stopped new Pre owners from already downloading a million apps, according to mobile analytics firm Medialets. The nytimes.com’s Bits Blog did the math, working out that based on RBC Capital’s estimate…

Give them easier access and they will upload and watch. Google (NSDQ: GOOG) said today that since the iPhone 3G S has come out, YouTube uploads have risen 400 percent. That’s a mighty jump being attributed to one phone model. But Google, which owns the online video site, said that…

Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC has released its third Android phone, the HTC Hero, which has been picked up by France Telecom’s UK carrier Orange, as the first Android device in its portfolio of phones, the companies said today.

RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) released its latest media player today, called RealPlayer SP, which stands for “social” and “portable.” It makes it easier to record online videos to a computer and then send them to social networks and devices, such as mobile phones, iPods or the Xbox. The free version is…

Glu Mobile (NSDQ: GLUU) is releasing four new titles through its partnership with Activision (NSDQ: ATVI) Publishing this year, including such high-profile brands as ‘Guitar Hero,’ which formerly was being developed by Hands-On Mobile. The San Mateo, Calif.-based company, which has struggled to keep up as mobile gaming has shifted…