Ever since the tech world received word that Palm was up for sale, there has been a lot of speculation about who would buy them. For some time, it appeared that HTC was a likely candidate, with the major benefit for them being Palm’s may patents, maybe helping them out in their war with Apple. But HTC passed, and finally HP bought the company for a reported $US1.2 Billion. What HP plans to do with the company is currently unknown, but the rumour is that HP’s tablet will not run Windows 7, but it will instead run a derivative of Palm’s WebOS. But, as it is with all these things, only time will tell.

Turns out someone guy wants to abolish technobabble.

Peter Griffiths, [...] is hoping that his Plain English Campaign can knock down the “walls of techobabble” by “pulling our heads out of the digital clouds and using plain English.” Ironic, really, given that most of the technologically illiterate wouldn’t know that a digital cloud actually refers to an off-site storage hub where information is exchanged.

Come on… Seriously?? Listen, learning words like dongle, WAP and firewire are not really that hard.

>> BBC News via Engadget