The Palm Pre launches on June 6th via the Sprint Network and the buzz is whether it will be everything it claims to be. The pre launch feedback on the device has been very impressive. The timing of the release is interesting - 2 days before Apple WDC. If apple was going to announce a new iPhone this would spoil that announcement completely. Palm's investor Robert McNamee of Elevation Partners, boasted that after tha launch of the Palm Pre "Not one of those people will still be using an iPhone a month later."

• NPR - Palm Pre is pretty impressive

• Nytimes - Palm's New smartphone goes on sale on June 6th

• Latimes - Palm Pre Smartphone goes on sale on June 6th

• Gizmodo - Plam Pre is simply amazing

• Mobile Times - Expectations for Palm Rise as Pre Smartphone Nears

• Gigaom - Can Palm Pre sav palm from being put out to Pasture

• Readwriteweb - Palm Pre: Like the iPhone, But Also Not

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By Richard Sarno. Email Richard for any questions on Mobile Apps Development; Be it iPhone, Android or any other smartphone!.  

While planning for a project, developers always look for a tool which is simple and saves their time. For many developers it is difficult sometimes to find the right management tool to run their projects with. BaseCamp by 37signal is one such tool, which is very simple to use, and has been criticized often by others in the industry for its simplicity. However, for an average project management's needs, base camp is more than capable to handle the entire project.

Basecamp is a sleek, simple project-management application, billed as a "client extranet tool for creative-services firms," but its audience is much broader than that. This tool is used by accounting firms, banks, public schools, and wedding planners, and it needn't be limited to extranets. It can also build intranets (private networks for use within a small to medium-sized business.

Social media has become a popular medium nowadays. Not only is it a source of entertainment for most people, it is also the newest strategy for acquiring customers for businesses. And with hot new tools like Twitter, social media marketing has only become more progressive and popular!

Twitter is a free online social networking and micro-blogging application which gives its users the ability to send updates (up to 140 characters) called “tweets” to people who are following them on Twitter in their profile. The users, who have subscribed to tweets, are known as followers. Senders can restrict or allow anybody to access tweets. So what you have here is a publishing tool that can be either public or private. Users can send and receive tweets through different mediums like IM, cell phones and the web or external applications. The service is free to use over the Internet, but for SMS, service providers may charge fees.

DigitalMediaBuzz.com, a new startup created by seasoned media industry insiders, recently announced its official launch, providing comprehensive news, insight and commentary to all facets of the digital media industry. The site publishes daily, up-to-the minute coverage of innovation, news, trends, products and industry moves shaping the digital media marketplace to provide industry executives and influencers with a single source for on-target insight, analysis and information about the ever-changing marketplace.

The website fills a definitive need for a single source of insight and information. Currently, most digital media industry news is fragmented on blogs, e-newsletters, or social media platforms, making it difficult for executives to locate and subscribe to. Analysis and commentary of industry news, happenings, issues and trends isn’t often written by seasoned industry executives, leading to a swell of information overload that often drowns what media professionals need to know in today’s market. "Digital Media Buzz writers are a different breed. They're the newsmakers and consumers, making critical decisions based on the same information they share with you. I'm pleased to be a contributor," added Hal Danziger, director of Interactive Technology at New York Magazine.