Let’s Catch Up On Some News, Shall We?

Its been a tad slow, so lets get to some of the smaller items. QuickOffice has announced that they have acquired DynoPlex. QuickOffice is a Microsoft Office compatible software suite for various handhelds, and DynoPlex is a document management platform. A marriage made in mobile heaven? Very possibly, since DynoPlex just released a suite of tools to allow BlackBerrys to view and edit office documents.

The Cuban government has just released restrictions on its citizens having home computers. I don’t suspect it will take long for various vendors to start getting their little laptops down there. ASUS, you seeing a market for your Eee PC yet? Maybe not, since Raul Castro didn’t un-ban the Internet. The Communist government claims that the US embargo stops them from connecting to the cable. We’re friends with China and they’re communists! What gives, Bush?

It looks like the Psystar Mac clone isn’t fake, after all. At least there seem to be a few out there that people are talking about. Gizmodo and Engadget each have at least one. Guess they aren’t fakes after all.

Kensington has a new battery charger for the iPhone, though I’m sure it will work with other dockable iPods. Boy Genius has the poop on a clamshell handset from RIM, supposedly dubbed the BlackBerry KickStart. Finally, Microsoft is no longer pursuing the deal for Yahoo so you can stop trying to come up with new names for the merged force of nature (i.e., MicroHoo!, YahooSoft!, MicroYAHOO!soft, The Yang-Ballmer Love Child or YBLC, or just plain Microosoft!).