Quick! If you buy a Kindle book for your K machine or iPhone or iPod Touch, how many other devices can you download it to?

As described by GearDiary, the device limit can vary from publisher to publisher—and you don’t know before you virtually plunk down your money. You just might be limited to enjoyment of your book on just one gizmo.
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Disney has partnered with Asus to introduce the Netpal netbook PC targeted at kids aged 6-12. Based on Asus’s 8.9-inch Eee PC, the Disney Netpal gets Atom processor and a 160GB hard drive. It supports WiFi.
The Netpal will come pre-installed with several Disney themes, including Mickey Mouse, Cars, Toy Story, WALL-E..etc.
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See that? All 43-inches of this curved NEC monitor with 2880×900 pixel resolution can be yours in July. Ok, it’ll cost you $7,999 but it’s, well, it’s curved! The CRV43, first spotted at CES in January 2008 and again on video in 2009 (where it was expected to cost $6,499), measures in with a 200 nits brightness rating, 10,000:1 contrast, 0.02ms “Rapid Response,” covers 99.3% of the Adobe RGB color gamut, and packs at least one USB2.0 jack and DVI-D and HDMI 1.3 connectors.
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We just got to witness history, folks: Alfredo Rodriguez waited an hour in the miserable New York rain for the privilege of snapping up his Sprint store’s very first retail Pre at this evening’s invite-only Premier customers event.

The man paid in cold hard cash, and after a tedious 40 minute purchase process that involved a bit of activation, some nice tutorials, a quick address book sideload from his old Touch Diamond and whole lot of peripheral upsell, Alfredo was one of the world’s first satisfied Pre customers.
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Currently, LaCie announced two new products that will enrich the wireless HD media player lines: LaCinema Black PLAY and LaCinema Black RECORD. The new product is LaCinema Black family optimize access and playback of digital content directly HDTV.

LaCinema Black Play and LaCinema Black Record offer more advanced functionality within the home network. You can use a direct network connection or use of build-in Wi-Fi with ease to store music, films and photos using any computer connected to the network.
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While it remains to be seen if consumers will think the Palm (PALM) Pre is the equal of the Apple (AAPL) iPhone, there is evidence fees paid to Sprint (S) for the Pre will in some cases be lower than what iPhone users pay AT&T (T).

Here’s a comparison of the costs, as compiled by BillShrink.com.

UPDATE: :Looks like the BillShrink guys got some of this wrong. Updated data below from AT&T’s web site.
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Spotify, the streaming music service which is gradually gathering a large fan-base in Europe, has been plotting a mobile version. It recently hired a head of mobile and the speculation was that it would come out with an iPhone app first after releasing a teaser video. But today it’s released video of an Android app it’s being demoing to people at Google I/O.

The Android app is still very much a work in progress and subject to minor changes, but it gives a pretty good overview of their thinking. The demo highlights a number of features including playback, playlists, offline synch and music search.
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Skyfire, the server-compressed mobile browser that promises “the full web,” i.e. Flash support, on Windows Mobile and Symbian phones, has graduated from its excruciatingly long testing period. In a word, it’s great.

The release notes point to a few major changes from earlier versions of the browser, emphasizing better text rendering, faster startup, easier controls and improved compatibility with complex AJAX-driven pages like Facebook and Gmail. To be honest, the changes aren’t massive, but a few of them make noticeable differences.
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It seems as if almost every time there is an Apple announcement coming up, more rumors of a Mac tablet show up. This time around, TechCrunch is reporting that they have heard from OEMs and people who have held prototypes that a 10 inch Mac Tablet and/or large iPhone is on the way.

According to them, the price point for this product will be anywhere from $500 to $1,000 and “the project is very real.” Currently, they don’t really have any information about the specs of the machine other than those already mentioned, just that it exists. If you ask me, these rumors are getting somewhat redundant. That said, I wouldn’t mind at all if Apple were to release a tablet touch screen device if they do it right.
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Currently, Sony Ericsson have confirmed that they’re working on an Android handset that will run version 2.0 of the Google platform. The company’s Asia-Pacific VP of marketing, Peter Ang, told reporters at a Taiwan launch this week that Sony Ericsson’s first Android phone would arrive in the “near future”.
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