Fortune has put together another list of names they want to recognize for excellence, and this time it was the smartest people in the technology industry. Executive Vice President of HP’s Personal Systems Group, and Palm chief Jon Rubinstein’s immediate supervisor, Todd Bradley grabbed the title of Smartest Executive on Fortune’s list (smartest exec is not to be confused with smartest CEO, a title unsurprisingly claimed by Apple chief Steve Jobs).

Bradley is a familiar name to Palm fans, as he was CEO of PalmOne (the hardware arm of Palm) from 2001 to 2005 during the transition to the smartphone, at which point he was recruited by Hewlett Packard CEO Mark Hurd to head up the Personal Systems Group of HP. Since taking charge of the Personal Systems Group, Bradley has taken the desktops, laptops, and mobile devices arm of HP to new heights. They’ve toppled Dell as the world’s largest and jumped to $42 billion in annual revenue with a 300% increase in profit.

Reading the tea leaves, Bradley sees the future of HP and the Personal Systems Group in the mobile ecosystem. As such, it’s ironic and humorous that as the head of the Personal Systems Group, Bradley will once again be in charge of newly-acquired subsidiary Palm, Inc.

Bradley finds himself on the list with such tech luminaries as the aforementioned Steve Jobs, Google founders Sergei Brin and Larry Page, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, Apple designed Jonathan Ive, analyst Mike Arrington, and film-maker James Cameron (for his pioneering 3D cinema work).

Source: Fortune, Via: webOSroundup

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It’s the highest grossing movie of all time and a groundbreaking cinematic experience (seriously, the only 3D this blogger has enjoyed), but Avatar has most been limited to the silver screen. Sure, there’s a console game and an Avatar game for the iPhone, oh, wait, Gameloft has brought James Cameron’s Avatar to webOS. Rock on, blue dudes.

Avatar is the latest PDK-enabled 3D game, and it promises to be one of the more impressive. Not only do you get to dive deep into the world of Pandora, you get to make the same choices made in the film: save the Na’vi or work with your fellow humans. Or are they your fellow humans? The lines get predictably blurry. But this isn’t just any-old scripted role-playing game – you get to fight against the Na’vi, humans, giant beastly things with nasty big pointed teeth. Oh, and did we mention that you get to fly? How cool is that?

James Cameron’s Avatar is available now in the App Catalog for $6.99.

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