On Tuesday, the eighth largest economy of the world, Italy faced a crucial vote regarding the public finance in parliament. Besides holding 8th rank globally, it also credits to be the third top most economy in the euro zone.

Though there are speculations galore, as well as some indirect confirmations, that computing giant Hewlett-Packard (HP) is set to mark its foray into the tablet arena, with an announcement to the effect at a February 9 event, what remains to be seen is how the HP tablet will fare against the popular Apple iPad and the horde of Android tablets to appear on the scene in the coming months!

Jon Rubinstein, the Palm CEO of, has been outspoken approximately precedent errors by the group subsequent to it botched to augment its market share in the Smartphone section and was eventually purchased by HP.

The Palm Pre 2 has just been put for sale in the UK for the price of £399 and people rush in to bombard it with apps.

The present issue speaks of absence of apps in the webOS App Catalog - with most of the people sighting their views through an official Twitter app.

Palm Pre, the first mobile device which has been released last year with Palm's webOS mobile operating system, has vanished in thin air and nowhere to be found with US based wireless carriers such as Sprint and Verizon (the Plus version), hinting of the next version of Palm Pre 2.

The shareholders of mobile device manufacturer Palm seem to be elated with the recent deal happened with Hewlett-Packard.

The deal soon to get over will see the final icing on the cake on the 1 July, claims the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

HP on the other hand has paid $1.2 billion for the takeover of Palm.

HP CEO Mark Hurd today clarified that the Company did not buy Palm to produce any smartphones. It has bought it for IP.

Hurd unfolded the reasons for its Palm purchase at a Merrill Lynch technology symposium, today. He reiterated that it is not at all related to the production of smartphones.

Google will surely benefit from Matias Duarte, Vice President of human interface and user experience at Palm. This is the first high profile functionary who has left Palm since Hewlett-Packard announced plans to overtake the Company. He will serve as user experience Director for Android in Google.

O2 has proclaimed that it is going to launch the Pre Plus and the Pixi Plus in UK on May 28, along with iPad. The Pre Plus will be equipped with twice the amount of online storage and the Pixi Plus will come up with WiFi.

Both the handsets are the updated versions of the older ones.

Jon Rubinstein, Chairman and Chief Executive of Palm, expressed his opinion on the new games Palm phones at the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada, January 7, 2010.