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CTIA is always a barn-burner of an event with phone manufacturers and carriers alike making crazy announcements.  Also this week was a Web 2.0 event where yet still more companies made announcements.  Here is my culmination of greatest hits.  And by, “greatest” I mean the most that show traces of crack in their bloodstream.

• The absolute very latest about the Palm Pre
• Conficker no-show
• Yeah!? It’s a Blackberry world.  Wait a minute!
• Hello, Moto

Note to Palm, quit boring us.

Yes, it looks pretty. Yes, the new 3rd party apps are pretty.  But really, how about “wowing” us with some facts.  You know, things like a price or launch date or something fun like that?  Sprint could help you out and just announce pricing plans.  Throw us a freaking bone here team!

I appreciate how hard it is to build something like this, but honestly, showing us an emulator that allows you to use fun Palm stuff that was hip in the 90s just seems, well, cheesy.  There, I’ve said it.  There was a reason the OS has been in a free fall: it just wasn’t an attractive option.  Bringing all that jazz to the webOS doesn’t help too much.

Computer bugs are created to bug bloggers

I was accosted at Career Day at a middle school this week with questions not from students, but from teachers about the pressing danger of the Conficker worm.  Oh the drama!  All for what?  The hassle of the Y2K bug, remember that?  Wake me up for the next one big bug that will destroy all we know and hold dear.  Good grief!  Doesn’t mainstream media look a bit like Charlie Brown trying to kick that football?  Swing and a miss.

Look at all the Apps in BlackBerry World…hey, we’ve seen these before.

Yes, we have seen these apps before, but not arranged on a pretty end-cap like this!  Welcome to the BlackBerry App World where our apps are new to you if you’ve not seen them before.  OK, that is a little harsh but if you were expecting miracles, the only one RIM is going to produce is climbing sales despite the GD2 (Great Depression 2).  That is impressive all by itself.

Sure new apps will flow, it was just odd to see so many old friends looking a bit older and fatter.  Like at someone’s 20th high school reunion.

Moto’s actually got a good phone in the Evoke

Normally I slap Moto around a bit for doing things like $2000 phones that launch just after the Dow drops its drawers.  Things are looking up though with the Evoke.  This thing looks just smart enough for the masses, but not so much that you need to know what SSID is.

I am rooting for you Moto and not just because I want to have fodder for next week’s Crack.  Keep it up.