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Palm has just introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show a brand-new touchscreen smartphone, powered by a brand-new operating system. Wi-Fi may not be cutting-edge technology anymore, but iPhones, netbooks and other portable devices will put it in many more consumers' hands this year. (5:34) Palm Pre vs. Apple iPhone: how they stack up
Palm's new Pre 3G smartphone, with its webOS software, seems to stack up well against the Gold Standard – Apple's iPhone. The Pre's Web integration is an intriguing and distinct approach to the mobile Web. Plus:
CES: Is Palm's Pre the new iPhone?
The CES blog 12 CIOs who Twitter
Follow their Tweets and perhaps join the conversation yourself. How the yellow first-down line on football broadcasts actually works
Monash: Fandome offers a fascinating 3-1/2 minute video explaining how the first-down line on football broadcasts actually works. Evidently, there's a lot of processing to calculate the exact location being photographed on the field, and a lot more to draw a line in exactly the right place. Government spends over $30 million to sharpen cyber security saber
They call it game changing cyber security innovation and at over $30 million it better be. Researchers at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) today outlined the major contractors it expects will develop the first phase of technologies that it promises will improve cyber security “by orders of magnitude above our current systems.” Android gets Skype, iPhone has to wait
Good news for all those Skype users who got a G1 Android phone over the holidays. Skype just rolled out a beta version of Skype Lite, a free Java-based app available via the Android Market, that brings Skype's free voice-over-IP (VOIP) calling capabilities to the new phone. And for now at least, the G1 can boast a cool app that isn't yet available for Apple's iPhone. An Unfortunate New Year?
Nickasch: There are many longer-term benefits to a economic recession-of-sorts to the technology industry that we should always keep in mind. VoIP is dead? - depends on what you define as VoIP
Izhar: Was catching up on blogs when I found the Cisco Subnet entry called "Is VoIP dead?" Wow, really? Did the recession finally get to my backyard? Reading into the post and following first level and second level links, I realized it is perhaps a good story, but not the end of the world. | 
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