Palm’s new Treo 750 is exciting for a couple of reasons. It’s the first Treo available on Cingular’s network. It uses Windows Mobile instead of the Palm OS (which might be a minus to some, but not us). And it uses Cingular’s 3G network for simultaneous data and voice communication, which comes in handy when checking email and talking on the phone. At CES 2007, Jason Dunn of Thoughts Media interviewed Palm Treo 750 Product Manager Andy Clipsham about the Treo 750 and how Palm will react when Apple’s iPhone hits the cell phone market at some point in the future. As a bonus, here’s a photo comparison of the Treo 750 and other Cingular smartphones, along with screen shots of what Jake considers the coolest feature on the Treo, Threaded SMS.

Andy Clipsham of Palm on the Treo 750

One of the more exciting announcements from Microsoft at CES 2007 was the new Windows Home Server product, which aims to make storage and backup in the home easier. Based on Windows 2003 Server, the Home Server is a platform available to vendors like HP for deploying home backup and file management solutions to make accessing files in the home a simple process. With very few details available at the moment, Jason Dunn teamed up with Jake to find out more from some of the Windows Home Server product team. Questions answered include things like remote desktop support, theoretical limit of storage space in the server, number of users, and what’s making the Windows Home Server work under the hood.

Windows Home Server at CES 2007

Have you ever been frozen in Carbonite? That might not be a bad thing, so long as Carbonite is the program you’ve installed to backup all your data to a virtual hard drive in the sky. Throw away the tape drives, man – it’s all about your Internet Backup options. Yes, Carbonite happens to be an up-and-coming application that lets you store an unlimited amount of data to another computer in the universe (in a set-it and forget-it fashion). Jason Dunn has been using it for a while, and his word is gold when it comes to software and Web services – so I trust Carbonite vicariously. Of course, I’m not recommending Carbonite for 100% of your backup needs – but it will make for a great backup of a backup (truly off-site). You can download a copy and try it yourself. It’s free for 15 days, but unlimited Internet storage for $5 a month!? Dude, you’d be insane not to use something like this to backup your data. And as a disclaimer, I get credit for download referrals (and you can sign up for their referral program, too).

Internet Hard Drive