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It seems it is just a week for Palm news. Following Apple and Android (and soon Windows), Palm has opened up an online software store for Palm devices running either Palm OS or Windows Mobile.

The store is being run by longtime Palm Application vendor PalmGear.com along with PocketGear, which is a very good sign as I have worked with both in the past and they have top notch customer service and enormous experience…not to mention stupid numbers of applications on tap as soon as the new store opens. This move makes a lot of sense for Palm as one of the traditional advantages of the Palm OS has been the massive number of high quality third-party apps available. Making the software download accessible directly from the device in a quick, easy way like the App Store will just further leverage this strength.

If Palm will indeed be taking the wraps off Nova in January along with presumably some new devices to run it, and the OS is backwards compatible to existing Palm applications, then having the Palm Software Store up and running a month in advance of CES to make sure all the kinks are out is a very very smart move and gives me great hope that Palm may be back in the game.

After all, I remind you that other companies have been basically left for dead in the past to the point their arch rivals actually invested in them to keep them going, only to be resurrected by one or two highly successful products. I am speaking of course of Apple, and the project development head of the product that saved Apple, the iPod, is Jon Rubinstein…who is now at Palm. Will lightning strike twice? God I hope so. I can’t wait to get my hands on a Nova device.

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By day a department manager and writer for a major network device vendor...by night Zealot stalks the mean magnetic streets, striking fear into the hearts of bandwidth abusers and theme park mascots. Zealot has been involved with mobile devices for more than a decade now, starting off with dumb phones, moving to PDAs and then to smartphones, notebooks and netbooks with the odd PMP thrown in. Most of his mobile time currently is spent on a Treo Pro, Zune HD, Thinkpad T61, Gigabyte M912M or a Hackintoshed Compaq Mini 704. He proudly groks the Geek community and considers himself a Neo Maxi Zune Dweebie (thanks Will Wheaton!).