This ought to be a great event for Opera Software fans. The company has announced it will be demoing and displaying many of its software products throughout the event. What will be the biggest hit for Opera? For the first time Opera Software will allow video recording and photography of Opera Mini for iPhone. An initial iPhone version was first debuted during February’s Mobile World Congress Conference.

Canon USA, Inc has been named by the Environmental Protection Agency as a  2010 Energy Star Partner of the Year "for its outstanding contributions towards reducing greenhouse gas emissions."  An awards ceremony was held on March 18th to publicly recognize the work Canon has done to educate consumers about energy-efficient products and for its leadership in the field. 

Web users are finding their news in a manner that may not be considered a “traditional” way of Web news navigation. In February Hitwise published a report which found that Facebook beat out Google News in sending visits to top news and media Web sites. It was the fourth largest source of visits behind only Google, Yahoo, and MSN (still ahead of Yahoo Search and Bing). A recent follow up report shows that Facebook news getters are more loyal to news and media Web sites than are visitors from Google News.

Canon, a leader in digital imaging solutions has announced that it will be the first company to get rid of the common .com and create its own top-level domain '.canon.'  The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has recently expanded the generic top-level domain space to "allow for a greater degree of innovation and choice."  Canon hopes to take advantage of this new expansion and make it easier for customers to find the site by just entering 'canon' into the address bar. 

Almost a year and a half after Canon released the high-end EOS 5D Mark II SLR camera, they have upgraded the firmware that expands the video capabilities.  Initially the 5D only supported 30 frames per second for video and customers were wanting more.  Version 2.0.3 to the firmware changes that "to comply with TV production standards" to 29.97 fps, and for cinema standards a 23.976 fps option. 

This year's CTIA Wireless Event is about to take place in Las Vegas, and the wireless world has so much more to offer now than even last year.  CTIA Wireless 2010 has a spectacular line up of events. Want some of the highlights from 2009?  One major part of last year's event was the  closing of the conference by former Vice President Al Gore. 

Google has been a roll lately. First with the addition of Google Bike Maps; then their new features for Google Buzz; and just yesterday Google introduced some changes to Google Earth.  The newly updated layout for Google Earth is expected to make navigation much easier. Making it easier to navigate is great for everyone, from the guy in his office burning off the last 20 minutes on a Friday to a family who legitimately is using it to plan out this summer’s vacation.

Next week the CTIA Wireless event will be held in Las Vegas.  The convention is full of big name keynote speakers, such as James Cameron and Twitter co-founder Biz Stone.  There are also numerous keynote and educational sessions of interest to choose from. 

Amazon has just released the Kindle for Mac application that adds to the list of ways users can access their Kindle e-books.  The company is also going to be releasing the Kindle for iPad very soon, hoping to get into the iPad-user market before Apple can win market share for e-books. Amazon has said in the past that it pushes more for the sales of e-books than the sales of Kindles, just because the business is better in e-books. So why, when they are trying to push for market share before competitors can swoop in, would they start waging war on publishers over concessions regarding the electronic content?

Next week, the wireless industry convention, International CTIA Wireless, will be held at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas.  The convention is the "premier wireless event representing a $1 trillion global marketplace that brings together the wireless and converged communications, wireless broadband, mobile web computing and data industries."  The show is 3 days (March 23-25) and will include an exhibit floor, educational and keynote sessions, and networking events.  Some of the themes covered at the show include smart energy, mobile applications, social networking, and mobile CE. 

Amazon announced on Thursday the release of Kindle for the Mac, a free application that allows Mac users to read Kindle Books on their computer.  The application is now available in over 100 countries and currently there are over 450,000 book options offered by Kindle.  With the addition of the Mac app, readers can now access Kindle by iPhone, iPod Touch, BlackBerry, and of course the Kindle and Kindle DX.  Coming soon will be the application for the iPad as well.  

There may yet be some light shining through the darkness of Palm inc’s inevitable financial fall. According to some analysts the time is ripe for Palm to be bought out by one of the other contenders in the OS war.   In doing so, whatever company bought them, would not only be adding the modest library of Palm Pre apps to the repertoire, but the technological strength of the Palm Pre itself.

The plummet of Palm is certainly unfortunate, but it was inevitable.  The bigger problem is that the same exact pattern of downfall can, and likely has to happen to the more competitors in the cell-phone operating system game.  If you look at why they fell, it becomes obvious that more mobile OS producers could reach the same fate.  Obviously, everybody who wanted to compete in the smartphone OS market wants to think that they are going to be the next big thing in cell phone OSs. People want to get on board with the next big thing in tech, so   obviously all OS makers can’t be right. 

Now that you have your nice recycled home, and your relaxing recycled boat, don’t you need to do some landscaping to spruce up the exterior of your humble abode?  The innovators at Recycled Aggregate Materials Company (RAMCO) have developed an eco-friendly landscaping alternative called GreenRock.  The GreenRock product looks like rocks that you would put in your garden, walkway, or instead of mulch.  But it is not made of rock, it is made of recycled concrete roofing tiles, paving stones, and block. 

As we all know, every tech company out there has been throwing their contender into the OS war. It seems that they’ve learned from the 90’s that he who makes the premier software, rules any given software revolution.  It seems, though, that one major player has recently been knocked out of the race in a big way.  Today, Palm inc’s stock plummeted. This appears to be because of their lack of ability to actually sell their phone operating system.  It seems that the smartphone OS landscape just got more treacherous.