Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday is scheduled to announce $2 billion in grants that …

Screenshot by Bonnie Cha/CNET On Thursday, Palm made its new browser-based mobile development platform available to all developers as a public beta. Dubbed Project Ares, developers can now create programs for Palm WebOS simply by firing up their browser (Firefox, Safari, and Chrome are supported) and signing into their account where they will then have access to all the tools …

Screenshot by Scott Webtser/CNET Effective Wednesday, T-Mobile customers with a Google Android phone running version 1.6 of the operating system will begin receiving an update to their Android Market. After installing the update and opening the Market, users can access a “T-Mobile Top Picks” section that showcases applications there were selected by the carrier. Besides being innovative, these applications can …