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With Apple and Google’s on-device application stores already peddling the wares and RIM’s BlackBerry Application Center just around the corner, Palm’s making an effort to not get left behind. This evening, Palm launched an official on-device application store for both Windows Mobile and Palm OS powered handsets. (http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2008/12/15/palm-gets-in-on-the-app-store-game-launches-palm-software-store 12/15)

More than two years ago, Pandora began working on a Windows Mobile client for their personalized music streaming service.  At long last, the project has come to fruition. Pandora has now released a Windows Mobile client. (http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2008/12/16/pandora-now-available-for-windows-mobile 12/16)

Cell phones are destined to become the standard way of connecting to the Internet by 2020, according to technology experts surveyed by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, which found nearly 80% of its respondents holding that view. The group also predicted most carriers worldwide will be run under a “set of universal standards and protocols.” Network World (12/15))

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