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The showdown has officially begun. Both phone have grabbed the attention of every man, woman, and child who has a cellphone. The question now is will the iPhone reign supreme or will the Palm Pre take the cake.

For awhile before the release of the Palm Pre sprint marketed heavily for the new phone. From television ads to web ads that seemed to be everywhere. So how good did the Palm Pre actually do. Sprint released a statement saying that the Palm Pre has the highest weekend sells of any cellphone on our network to date. So in general Sprint is saying the Palm Pre is the best. While the iPhone has not yet been released, it has had attention drawn will leaked images of “what the phone might look like”, of course of which was actual pictures of the phone itself.

Both phones have a nice look with pretty intuitive interfaces, both have minor complaints nothing to big to stop people from buying either phone, so what’s the biggest differences between the two.

The two biggest difference are the carriers and company support. The iPhone has their infamous app store totaling around 50,000 as of today. The app store alone drives people to buy the iPhone and with the inclusion of the  new graphics capabilities, allowing better interactive games, Palm will have a hard time keeping up. The Palm on the other hand has a better carrier. Now to all the AT&T Cingular fans out there I’m only saying this, because AT&T is havng to catch up technology wise to bring full the capabilities of iPhone 3Gs to it’s users. iPhone users will have to wait for better tethering and data services Sprint on the other hand is already offering 4G speed to it’s costumers which will offer faster download speeds and maybe soon offer live video feed, something Europeans already have and love. Last but not least the price to upgrade to the new iPhone is extremely high. The lowest price to upgrade is a wopping $399.

We will soon find out which phone will win over the other later this month. Subscribe to find the latest info or follow use on twitter at Technology on the Rise to know when the next blog post will be and as always please leave your thoughts in the comments box.

Bing was released a little over a week now and it still doesn’t seem to be getting the usage it once hoped for. A few friends say they like the new search engine, but they still use google more than bing. While bing has tried to convert more people to it’s search, google still holds a firm grasp on the search market. Google’s head guy had a meeting the day after bing’s release and they say there are no worries that bing is cause for much worry.

Bing has launched a huge ad campaign, spending around 100 million to get people binging instead of googleling. Some of their commercials are a little troubling making it seem the world is in chaos just because of inadequate search engines. I would say this is a a little to far of an exaggeration even for a “funny” commercial. Check it out and tell me what you think about the search dilemma.

It looks like WolframAlpha Web 3.0 isn’t doing so well either.The computational engine that “makes all systematic knowledge computable by anyone” is still trailing behind Google. Although the site works really well, it is not something one would use on a day to day basis. Also the search terms used to get the specific information wanted is a little confusing and would be hard to learn if not so familiar with computer syntax.

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