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Palm Pileup [Digital Daily]_

No surprise, this after the company’s dismaying February warning: Palm’s (PALM) earnings news today is grim — albeit a bit less grim than some had feared. Posting third-quarter results after Thursday’s closing bell, Palm reported a net loss of $18.5 million, or 13 cents a share on revenues of $349.9 million. That’s nicely ahead of its recent guidance of $285 million to $310 mil

  

Scientists a Step Closer to Making Cloak of Invisibility a Reality_

Researchers at Germany's Karlsruhe Institute of Technology report they were able to cloak a tiny bump in a layer of gold, preventing its detection at nearly visible infrared frequencies.

  

Microsoft lowers Windows licensing costs for virtual desktops_

Microsoft is lowering the price of licensing the Windows operating system in a virtual desktop deployment, and announcing new bundles with partner Citrix in an announcement Thursday.

  

Women in Games Conference 2010 canceled_

Despite running successful shows from 2004-2009, a lack of attendees has forced the creators of the Women in Games Conference to cancel this year's show, which was to be held next weekend.

  

Google TV: Five Burning Questions_

Google, Intel, and Sony are reportedly banding together to produce a Web content platform for your living room called Google TV. The new platform would reportedly be available as a set-top box or as part of a Web-capable television. Google TV would be based on Google's mobile operating system, Android, and would also include a version of the Chrome browser for using Web applications like Twitter

  

Mobile developers take measure of Windows Phone 7_

Mobile developers had their first chance to learn details of the radically redesigned Windows Phone 7 mobile platform at Microsoft's MIX10 conference this week. They've got a lot think about, and they're thinking hard.

  

Media Company Abuses Self on YouTube [Copyfight]_

YouTube's big court fight with Viacom is unearthing some fun stories, like this one: Viacom secretly doctored its content to look stolen, uploaded it to YouTube, and then promptly reported itself for copyright abuse, having forgotten about its own ruse. More »

  

Sure, You're Broke. But at Least Grandma's Moving in With You. [Recessionomics]_

The Way We Live Now: As one big family. Extended families living together are back! By necessity, borne of poverty. Still, something we can embrace. Unlike sewage wage freezes and worthless garbage homes and crazy old Senate alien coots. More »

  

Formspring.me Raises $2.5M for Booming Site_

Formspring.me, the fascinatingly simple and popular personal Q&A site, has raised $2.5 million from an impressive list of angel investors: The site, which launched exactly 113 days ago, had 50 million unique visitors in the last 30 days and more than 300 million questions answered.

  

Is Digg the future of social news?_

Social voting site Digg this week unveiled plans to become a hub for sharing links on the Web. If your friends are sharing media on Facebook, Twitter and other sites, Digg wants to provide a personalized home page that filters the Web based on your friends' activities. These new features will be previewed in the coming weeks.

  

Tim O'Reilly: 'Whole Web' is the OS of the future_

The Web is the future and is built on open source, says Tim O'Reilly, but threatens to gift a chokehold to a few savvy companies like Google.

  

T-Mobile USA eyeing iPhone launch this year or next?_

We don't like to stir up the nearly constant barrage of "so-and-so is getting the iPhone" rumors unless we've got a great reason to do so -- and we'd argue that a Financial Times report involving statements from Deutsche Telekom's CEO qualifies. The British rag was chatting up DT's boss over the prospects of its American unit -- T-Mobile USA -- and stressed the company's long-term commitment to t

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