iGoogle personalized home page shutting down along with less popular projects

As Google prepares to rid itself of various straggler projects in order to focus on the essentials, a number of once popular properties are being shut down. iGoogle, the personalized homepage that allowed users to pick a theme and customize their news and search feeds in one page is shutting down along with Google Video, Google’s Symbian Search App (bookmark Google.com, Google advises), Google Talk Chatback and Google Mini among others. 

HTC hires Mark Woodward as president for North America

HTC's hired former AT&T and Cingular veteran to run its North American Operations. The full press release and bio is at the break.

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BlackBerry 10 Product Roadmap gives insight into RIM's future

BlackBerryOS.com has revealed a slide that seems to feature Research In Motion's product roadmap for 2012 to 2014. RIM announced last week that it would not meet its original deadline to release the first BlackBerry 10 devices in 2012 because of delays in completing the software.

 From what we can see here, two BB10 handsets,  the QWERTY keyboard sporting "Nevada" and the "London"handsets as well as the updated 4G-LTE PlayBook previously reported here. It is interesting to see that RIM also has what looks like a 10-inch tablet in the works.

What is evident is that RIM is really cutting down on their product line, which could make a difference in how they market their new devices.

Photo and source  BlackBerryOS.com

Windows 8 Upgrade Pro to cost $40 in 133 markets

Microsoft is going to make it easy and affordable to upgrade to Windows 8 Pro once it is available. A blog post on the Windows Team Blog states, " Starting at general availability, if your PC is running Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7 you will qualify to download an upgrade to Windows 8 Pro for just $39.99 in 131 markets. And if you want, you can add Windows Media Center for free through the “add features” option within Windows 8 Pro after your upgrade."

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