Effective this year, Congress has changed the dates for Daylight Saving Time, but your Windows Mobile device may not have gotten the memo.

Some clocks and Microsoft Outlook calendar appointments on Windows Mobile-powered devices will display incorrect times for March 11-April 1, 2007 and October 28-November 4, 2007. You can find more information about the exact dates and potential impact in the Changes in DST section of the Windows Mobile Web site.

Dominated by home-cleaning gadgets, the consumer robotics market is expanding with the arrival of ‘bots that can spy inside your home when you’re away or arrange virtual meetings of family or friends.

Robotics experts say gadgets introduced Thursday could usher more socially oriented robots into the U.S. market, though they bear little physical resemblance to humans or pets as robots embraced by consumers in Japan and South Korea do.

Palm’s CEO Ed Colligan made a number of comments on the next generation linux-based operating system currently under development at Palm. Colligan made a series of comments on its progress, potential and estimated delivery during remarks at today’s Q1 FY08 investor conference call.

Colligan told investors in his opening remarks that the Centro systems team and all Foleo engineers are now totally focused on delivering the next generation platform. He also put a concrete timeframe on its debut, stating they expect it to be “available” by the end of next calendar year.

David Berlind, writer for ZDNet.com, has posted a video interview with Palm CEO Ed Colligan to his blog, discussing both Palm’s new Centro smartphone and their cancelled Linux-based Foleo subnotebook.

The interview questions consist of a mix of predictable and interesting topics, with Colligan doing most of the talking and issuing the anticipated responses to most questions. Some of the topics addressed during the interview by Colligan include the Centro targeting cheap featurephone competition as well as the fact that all of the various forms of smartphones comprise only “5%” of the market’s annual sales. The low price point of the Centro is attributed to Palm “doing it in partnership” with Sprint with no mention of cost-reduced component integration, specification reduction, or reduced margins on the device from Palm.

Toshiba pushed high-definition technology into new laptops, expanding entertainment options for budget users.

The Satellite A205 and Qosmio F45 laptops provide HD-DVD drives and entertainment options to more users at an affordable price, said Ronald Ching, a Toshiba spokesman. The company introduced HD-DVD drives in Qosmio G35-AV650 laptops last year.

The European Commission is to investigate US firm Qualcomm over claims it abused its dominant position in the mobile phone technology market.

The EU competition regulator said it was examining claims that the chipmaker licensed rights to third-generation cell phone technology on unfair terms. Tech giants Ericsson, Nokia, NEC, Texas Instruments, Broadcom and Panasonic made the complaints to the Commission.

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