The iPhone is one of the most wildly popular phones the world has ever seen, while Windows 7 is well on its way to becoming the globe’s most ubiquitous OS. So compatibility between the two would be kinda sorta important, right

Tired of all the DROID talk? Well, tough cookies, mister

Whoa, is that webOS 2.0 we see on the horizon? No, sorry, it definitely isn’t — but we can say with relative confidence that the upcoming Pixi will be shipping with a newer, slightly more feature-rich version of webOS than its Pre brethren around the world; if nothing else, Synergy supports Yahoo on the new model, as PreCentral observes. What remains to be seen is the exact version number that’ll be shipping out of the gate — recent DSLReports user agent logs suggest that 1.2.9 might be the gold build (for the record, the Sprint Pre currently rocks 1.2.1), but apparently there’s some chatter going on about a 1.3 as well

Filed under: Beta Beat Want to see something scary this Halloween? Like, perhaps, a browser that doesn’t coddle you with all that silly stability and reliable performance

Like it or not, we’ve got it on pretty reasonable authority that HTC’s first “DROID” phone is nothing more than a rebadged, shape-shifted Hero (something we’ve been hearing for a while now ), and that it’ll be launching on Verizon on November 6th, the same day as Motorola’s DROID . That means Android 1.5 “Cupcake,” Sense UI, 3.2-inch screen, 528MHz processor and so forth. The Eris will retail for $199 but with a $100 mail-in rebate.

Filed under: Odds and ends , Steve Jobs , Apple Update: As our loyal commenters have pointed out, Gizmodo (which was among the first sites to report that Clow was changing roles, echoing a piece in the industry journal Advertising Age ) has followed up with an internal email from Clow where he says Miller’s promotion does not imply that Clow is stepping away from his own leadership role with the company, including “keeping an eye on Apple.” — When many people think of Apple, they think of the ad campaigns that the company has used over the years: The original “1984″ Super Bowl ad that introduced the Mac to the world The “Think Different” campaign that coincided with the return of Steve Jobs to the company The iPod dancing silhouettes “There’s an app for that” — the iPhone ads “Hello, I’m a Mac. And I’m a PC.” — the Get A Mac ads Apple’s advertising agency is TBWA / Media Arts Lab, and the person who has been the creative force behind all of these ads is a man by the name of Lee Clow . The 66 year-old Clow has decided to step down as chief creative officer at the agency, although he’ll remain chairman and global director of Media Arts Lab and fulfill other roles within TBWA.

BOO! It’s Halloween and it’s also a Saturday, so let’s not hear any pathetic excuses for not carving pumpkins . While we’re no experts, we’ve got a few tips for making your jack-o’-lanterns better looking and more unique: Always mark where you’re carving first instead of freestyling, especially for the lid. Once the knife’s in there’s nothing you can do about it.

Surface? What Surface

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It belts out severe weather alerts as storms are barreling towards your domicile. It acts as a decent bedroom stereo