Gibu Thomas, founder and CEO of Sharpcast, has a column about Palm (PALM) posted on VentureBeat. He writes that Palm's best chance of survival is to sell to a bigger phone maker, and give up hope of becoming the next Apple (AAPL).

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Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) is set to release a new advertisement for its PCs starring Vera Wang, the luxury fashion designer. It's another of those "The Computer is Personal Again" spots where famous people talk about how they use HP computers – but this is the first to feature a famous woman.

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Hey YouTube viewers, I'm new, I hope you welcome me. I'm actually going to be making some videos and they're going to be really neat, so I hope you check them out.

It seems innocent enough: A well-coiffed newcomer named Kallie – screen name GreenTeaGirlie – posts a 10-second introductory video on YouTube, titled "I'm new." Sure, the shot is poorly framed – she's in the lower righthand corner instead of the center – but on a site where a laughing baby is among the most viewed videos, you'd think the crowd would be forgiving.

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Tomorrow is the big announcement of Adobe (ADBE) CS3, the biggest product launch in the software maker’s history. It’s important on two levels. One, it’s the most concrete justification of Adobe’s merger with Macromedia announced two years ago – we’ll see the first product bundles that include the best of both Adobe and Macromedia software. Two, more than a lot of other software out there, Adobe bundles can spur people to buy hardware; and these new offerings from Adobe will rely heavily on today’s fastest chips and memory.

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I recently switched cell phone carriers and bought a new Palm (PALM) Treo 700p to replace my old Treo 600. One of the nice things about the 700p is the improved camera and video recording features, so I decided to run over to Best Buy (BBY) and grab a memory card. I knew prices had dropped, but even I wasn't prepared for how much:

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Unstrung is reporting that the sale of Palm (PALM) could come as soon as Thursday, when the device maker is due to report earnings. The list of potential buyers is said to include private equity firms Texas Pacific Group and Silver Lake Partners, and phone makers Nokia (NOK) and Motorola (MOT). Morgan Stanley has been working with Palm to explore options. (Palm shares are up nearly 5 percent on the rumor.)

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Many of us remember that classic Apple (AAPL) 1984 ad in which a woman hurls a hammer into the face of totalitarianism – a dig at IBM (IBM). Well, here's a sign of the political times: Someone has redone the ad with Sen. Hillary Clinton in the place of IBM and Sen. Barack Obama's campaign in the place of Apple. On YouTube, versions of the ad have been viewed more than 1 million times.

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Maybe Sony (SNE) will have the last laugh after all. These days on Amazon.com (AMZN), sales of discs in Sony's Blu-ray format are trouncing rival HD DVD. A look at the rankings today shows that the bestselling HD DVD title – Happy Feet – is #129 in the DVD sales rankings. Five Blu-ray titles are outselling it: Casino Royale, Black Hawk Down, X-Men 3, The Departed, and Kingdom of Heaven.

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According to a report today from Neilsen//Netratings, online households have truly embraced gaming; one in three has a game console from Nintendo, Sony (SNE) or Microsoft (MSFT). Nearly one in six owns a portable gaming system like the Nintendo DS or Sony PSP.

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Microsoft (MSFT) is close to buying TellMe Networks, a voice recognition startup headquartered just down the road from Microsoft's Silicon Valley campus in Mountain View, according to this CNET report. It's an interesting development and not a huge surprise to Business 2.0 readers who saw Jeanette Borzo's What Works piece earlier this year on why the voice recognition space is heating up.

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