Right now there’s no good way to sync or backup your data from SplashID on webOS, which is otherwise a perfectly good app. But without any way to backup your data, you’re left in a lurch if it ever happens that you have to reset or replace your phone. The good folks at SplashData recognize that and instead of pursuing the desktop sync function that has typified SplashID on every other platform.

Instead they’re going after the solution that typifies webOS: the cloud. SplashData will in the coming months release a cloud-enabled beta SplashID. The app will sync your passwords and other SplashID data to SplashID Live, the ecosystem’s online repository. Additionally, you can expect that in the near future the cost of SplashID will rise, likely to their standard $9.99. SplashData is currently asking just $4.99 for the webOS version as they didn’t feel comfortable charging the full price for an app with no desktop sync functionality.

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Right now there’s no good way to sync or backup your data from SplashID on webOS, which is otherwise a perfectly good app. But without any way to backup your data, you’re left in a lurch if it ever happens that you have to reset or replace your phone. The good folks at SplashData recognize that and instead of pursuing the desktop sync function that has typified SplashID on every other platform.

Instead they’re going after the solution that typifies webOS: the cloud. SplashData will in the coming months release a cloud-enabled beta SplashID. The app will sync your passwords and other SplashID data to SplashID Live, the ecosystem’s online repository. Additionally, you can expect that in the near future the cost of SplashID will rise, likely to their standard $9.99. SplashData is currently asking just $4.99 for the webOS version as they didn’t feel comfortable charging the full price for an app with no desktop sync functionality.

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While the $25 deal at Wirefly is nice, they don’t draw anywhere near as many customers as Walmart does, where the Pixi is going for $29.95. The one retailer that has any hope of customer levels coming near that of Walmart? Amazon, and they’re undercutting Wally World by $5 and selling the Pixi for $24.99 on a new contract. Amazon also has the cheapest off contract price for a Pixi we’ve ever seen: $359.99. At this rate we have to wonder how long it will be before you’re able to get a Pixi for free - and what a huge coup that would be for Palm.

UPDATE: Walmart’s Pixi price has jumped up to $49.99, so Amazon is the better deal by far.

[via: Engadget]

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While the $25 deal at Wirefly is nice, they don’t draw anywhere near as many customers as Walmart does, where the Pixi is going for $29.95. The one retailer that has any hope of customer levels coming near that of Walmart? Amazon, and they’re undercutting Wally World by $5 and selling the Pixi for $24.99 on a new contract. Amazon also has the cheapest off contract price for a Pixi we’ve ever seen: $359.99. At this rate we have to wonder how long it will be before you’re able to get a Pixi for free - and what a huge coup that would be for Palm.

UPDATE: Walmart’s Pixi price has jumped up to $49.99, so Amazon is the better deal by far.

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Saul Hansell of the New York Times recently penned an interesting feature on Palm. Hansell opened the piece by describing Palm as a "mouse" in "a land of cellphone giants" including Apple, Research in Motion, Google, Microsoft and Nokia, then interposes comments by Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein with analyst thoughts to show both Palm’s strengths and supposed weaknesses. At one point in the piece, Tero Kuittenen, an analyst with MKM Partners, describes how opinions have fluctuated since the Pre announcement in January:

“These emotional extremes reflect a handset market in profound turmoil,” said Tero Kuittinen, an analyst with MKM Partners. “Palm soared to $18 when people were expecting Pre to be a blockbuster. American tech bloggers went crazy over Pre and pronounced it to be the St. Paul following the iPhone Jesus,” he said. “Then Verizon started pushing Droid and the bloggers reversed. Now Pre was doomed and Android was going to take over the global handset market.”

There were a few other noteworthy points, including Rubinstein being quoted as saying, "Android, and the droid in particular, are designed for the techie audience…We [at Palm] are doing a more general product that helps people live their lives seamlessly." Given Palm’s strong support for open-source development, easily modifiable code and other tech-friendly features of the Pre in particular, the idea that the Pre was not "designed for the techie audience" seems a bit odd, though Palm has repeatedly stated that they are pursuing customers that aren’t current smartphone owners.

On the prospects for Palm with the addition of the Pixi to its lineup, analyst Kuittinen estimates that "Palm may be able to sell 10 million handsets next year," depending on adding carriers in Europe as well as the United States.

Oddly, notwithstanding the largely positive spin of the piece, The Times’ headline changed between when the piece was first posted (and put into print) and the current online version. The original headline read, "Underdog Palm Takes on Giants in Smartphones," but the current version has morphed to, "Is Palm’s Comeback Losing Steam?" There’s no explanation either in or accompanying the piece for the change, and little indication in the article that Palm’s comeback may be "losing steam."

Setting aside the title change, the article paints a generally good picture of Palm’s current and future prospects, especially with the release of the down-market Pixi to fill the Centro role with which Palm was so successful in the past.

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Saul Hansell of the New York Times recently penned an interesting feature on Palm. Hansell opened the piece by describing Palm as a "mouse" in "a land of cellphone giants" including Apple, Research in Motion, Google, Microsoft and Nokia, then interposes comments by Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein with analyst thoughts to show both Palm’s strengths and supposed weaknesses. At one point in the piece, Tero Kuittenen, an analyst with MKM Partners, describes how opinions have fluctuated since the Pre announcement in January:

“These emotional extremes reflect a handset market in profound turmoil,” said Tero Kuittinen, an analyst with MKM Partners. “Palm soared to $18 when people were expecting Pre to be a blockbuster. American tech bloggers went crazy over Pre and pronounced it to be the St. Paul following the iPhone Jesus,” he said. “Then Verizon started pushing Droid and the bloggers reversed. Now Pre was doomed and Android was going to take over the global handset market.”

There were a few other noteworthy points, including Rubinstein being quoted as saying, "Android, and the droid in particular, are designed for the techie audience…We [at Palm] are doing a more general product that helps people live their lives seamlessly." Given Palm’s strong support for open-source development, easily modifiable code and other tech-friendly features of the Pre in particular, the idea that the Pre was not "designed for the techie audience" seems a bit odd, though Palm has repeatedly stated that they are pursuing customers that aren’t current smartphone owners.

On the prospects for Palm with the addition of the Pixi to its lineup, analyst Kuittinen estimates that "Palm may be able to sell 10 million handsets next year," depending on adding carriers in Europe as well as the United States.

Oddly, notwithstanding the largely positive spin of the piece, The Times’ headline changed between when the piece was first posted (and put into print) and the current online version. The original headline read, "Underdog Palm Takes on Giants in Smartphones," but the current version has morphed to, "Is Palm’s Comeback Losing Steam?" There’s no explanation either in or accompanying the piece for the change, and little indication in the article that Palm’s comeback may be "losing steam."

Setting aside the title change, the article paints a generally good picture of Palm’s current and future prospects, especially with the release of the down-market Pixi to fill the Centro role with which Palm was so successful in the past.

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The prospects of a cloud-connected phone were obvious from the day that the Palm Pre and webOS were announced. Apart from being always connected, having all your data backed up in multiple places was an alluring concept. Fast-forward to today’s webOS and while the always-connected bit is more or less true, there are still some glaring holes in the backup abilities of the OS. PreCentral forum member DrewPre decided that having things like your call logs, SMS conversations, and whatnot not backed up wasn’t good enough and set out to create a backup app for webOS.

And create it he did. For his first webOS app, Palm Pre Backup is quite impressive. Currently the app takes data from your phone (call logs, contacts, tasks, memos, and SMS conversations) web browser (bookmarks, cookies, and history), bundles them up with your apps and patches, and spits out a nice little zip package onto your phone’s USB drive partition. From there you can copy it to your desktop computer and have a handy backup at the ready for the next time you need to reset or replace your webOS phone.

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The prospects of a cloud-connected phone were obvious from the day that the Palm Pre and webOS were announced. Apart from being always connected, having all your data backed up in multiple places was an alluring concept. Fast-forward to today’s webOS and while the always-connected bit is more or less true, there are still some glaring holes in the backup abilities of the OS. PreCentral forum member DrewPre decided that having things like your call logs, SMS conversations, and whatnot not backed up wasn’t good enough and set out to create a backup app for webOS.

And create it he did. For his first webOS app, Palm Pre Backup is quite impressive. Currently the app takes data from your phone (call logs, contacts, tasks, memos, and SMS conversations) web browser (bookmarks, cookies, and history), bundles them up with your apps and patches, and spits out a nice little zip package onto your phone’s USB drive partition. From there you can copy it to your desktop computer and have a handy backup at the ready for the next time you need to reset or replace your webOS phone.

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Palm hath giveth. After the dual update let-down that was Monday, Tuesday came in full force with not only a whole basket full of updates, but with several new apps to boot. It’s a long list (which we like to see), so it’s all posted after the break. Just click that “Read the rest of this entry” button down to the right to check it out.

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Over at Pre 101 the recently interviewed a familiar character on the webOS scene: Palm’s Developer Community Manager Chuq Von Rospach. We got a bit of history on Von Rospach (prior to working with Palm he had worked with Sun Microsystems, Apple, Strongmail, and Laszlo Systems) and an explanation as to why his Tweets are almost always about birds.

But we know what you all find to be the interesting stuff: what he does at Palm. Chuq described his job as managing the developer portal and forums, communicating information from Palm to the developer community, and working with developers and media to address problems. Essentially, he serves as the nexus of Palm’s developer community, linking together Palm, the developers, and the media.

But what of the things that are big for developers? You know, the SDK, submission process, and App Catalog. Chuq says that Palm has heard our complaints. While it may not be evident from the outside, Chuq says that the application submission process has made leaps and bounds behind the scenes. The SDK’s documentation is also being expanded and enhanced in response to complaints from developers. Palm has also taken the notable step of embracing the external developer community unlike one of one of the other smartphone makers out there. The homebrew community at PreCentral is a crystal clear example of this embrace, especially when you consider how many of our developers have recently ‘graduated’ up to the App Catalog.

There’s much more at Pre 101, so check it out!

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Over at Pre 101 the recently interviewed a familiar character on the webOS scene: Palm’s Developer Community Manager Chuq Von Rospach. We got a bit of history on Von Rospach (prior to working with Palm he had worked with Sun Microsystems, Apple, Strongmail, and Laszlo Systems) and an explanation as to why his Tweets are almost always about birds.

But we know what you all find to be the interesting stuff: what he does at Palm. Chuq described his job as managing the developer portal and forums, communicating information from Palm to the developer community, and working with developers and media to address problems. Essentially, he serves as the nexus of Palm’s developer community, linking together Palm, the developers, and the media.

But what of the things that are big for developers? You know, the SDK, submission process, and App Catalog. Chuq says that Palm has heard our complaints. While it may not be evident from the outside, Chuq says that the application submission process has made leaps and bounds behind the scenes. The SDK’s documentation is also being expanded and enhanced in response to complaints from developers. Palm has also taken the notable step of embracing the external developer community unlike one of one of the other smartphone makers out there. The homebrew community at PreCentral is a crystal clear example of this embrace, especially when you consider how many of our developers have recently ‘graduated’ up to the App Catalog.

There’s much more at Pre 101, so check it out!

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Over at Pre 101 the recently interviewed a familiar character on the webOS scene: Palm’s Developer Community Manager Chuq Von Rospach. We got a bit of history on Von Rospach (prior to working with Palm he had worked with Sun Microsystems, Apple, Strongmail, and Laszlo Systems) and an explanation as to why his Tweets are almost always about birds.

But we know what you all find to be the interesting stuff: what he does at Palm. Chuq described his job as managing the developer portal and forums, communicating information from Palm to the developer community, and working with developers and media to address problems. Essentially, he serves as the nexus of Palm’s developer community, linking together Palm, the developers, and the media.

But what of the things that are big for developers? You know, the SDK, submission process, and App Catalog. Chuq says that Palm has heard our complaints. While it may not be evident from the outside, Chuq says that the application submission process has made leaps and bounds behind the scenes. The SDK’s documentation is also being expanded and enhanced in response to complaints from developers. Palm has also taken the notable step of embracing the external developer community unlike one of one of the other smartphone makers out there. The homebrew community at PreCentral is a crystal clear example of this embrace, especially when you consider how many of our developers have recently ‘graduated’ up to the App Catalog.

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An upgrade by Kaufman Brothers and more buzz about a Palm webOS device arriving at Verizon in Q12010 drove a rally in Palm stock today. Shares rose 5.82% to $12.54, a gain of $0.69.

According to a report posted at MarketWatch.com, Shaw Wu of Kaufman Brothers boosted his own rating on the stock to Buy from Hold with a target of $16. In his research note, he stated the following:

"Talking with investors, most have written off Palm as a legitimate competitor and assumed Android will be the platform of choice at Verizon and other carriers. We believe Palm still has sizable advantages with its multitouch capability and vertical integration."

All Things D’s John Paczkowski referenced Wu in his post that talked about a webOS handset coming to Verizon’s network in the first half of 2010. In response to these stories, MocoNew’s Tricia Duryee noted:

"If this is true, then more than ever Palm sounds like a perfect buy-out candidate for Nokia, which has been considered the most interested buyer. The webOS did launch with favorable reviews, but it’s been difficult for Palm to move fast given its always dwindling cash balance. A big company, like Nokia, would be able to provide the financing to get to market quickly, while also having the resources to raise the platforms’ visibility. For Nokia, it would mean supporting yet another operating system, but it would gain a much-needed foothold into the U.S."

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An upgrade by Kaufman Brothers and more buzz about a Palm webOS device arriving at Verizon in Q12010 drove a rally in Palm stock today. Shares rose 5.82% to $12.54, a gain of $0.69.

According to a report posted at MarketWatch.com, Shaw Wu of Kaufman Brothers boosted his own rating on the stock to Buy from Hold with a target of $16. In his research note, he stated the following:

"Talking with investors, most have written off Palm as a legitimate competitor and assumed Android will be the platform of choice at Verizon and other carriers. We believe Palm still has sizable advantages with its multitouch capability and vertical integration."

All Things D’s John Paczkowski referenced Wu in his post that talked about a webOS handset coming to Verizon’s network in the first half of 2010. In response to these stories, MocoNew’s Tricia Duryee noted:

"If this is true, then more than ever Palm sounds like a perfect buy-out candidate for Nokia, which has been considered the most interested buyer. The webOS did launch with favorable reviews, but it’s been difficult for Palm to move fast given its always dwindling cash balance. A big company, like Nokia, would be able to provide the financing to get to market quickly, while also having the resources to raise the platforms’ visibility. For Nokia, it would mean supporting yet another operating system, but it would gain a much-needed foothold into the U.S."

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As we suspected, many new Palm Pixi phones came out of the box with webOS 1.2.9 installed. That’s all well and good, since webOS checks for updates on a regular basis and downloads them in the background while you carry on with your daily business. Problem is, the Update app will only download over EVDO and WiFi, which in a way makes sense. EVDO and WiFi are nice and fast in comparison to the other wireless alternative on Sprint: 1xRTT.

So what is 1xRTT? Essentially, it’s Sprint’s 2.5G network, runs at a blistering 60 kbps to 80 kbps. Yes, kilobits per second, a speed that roughly translates to 10 kilobytes per second, in which case downloading the 126 MB webOS 1.3.1 update would take nearly 36 hours, and that’s assuming you managed to maintain peak rate for that whole day and a half. There’s a reason that you don’t see 1xRTT advertised much: it’s really slow.

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The medical community has long been a major supporter of smartphones, largely as an evolution of our adopting point-of-care software on PDAs. The importance of the healthcare market continues to be significant even today, evidenced by the efforts made to show how medical software (as show by Epocrates on Classic) could still be accessed even before the Pre was released.

Well, the release of the Pre and Classic came and went, and many of us felt the webOS platform was in dire need of a native med/pharm reference solution. Back in August, Derek reported that Lexi-Comp was indeed being developed for webOS; I was recently given an opportunity by them to take the pre-release beta for a spin and write up a Real Review.

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The medical community has long been a major supporter of smartphones, largely as an evolution of our adopting point-of-care software on PDAs. The importance of the healthcare market continues to be significant even today, evidenced by the efforts made to show how medical software (as show by Epocrates on Classic) could still be accessed even before the Pre was released.

Well, the release of the Pre and Classic came and went, and many of us felt the webOS platform was in dire need of a native med/pharm reference solution. Back in August, Derek reported that Lexi-Comp was indeed being developed for webOS; I was recently given an opportunity by them to take the pre-release beta for a spin and write up a Real Review.

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The medical community has long been a major supporter of smartphones, largely as an evolution of our adopting point-of-care software on PDAs. The importance of the healthcare market continues to be significant even today, evidenced by the efforts made to show how medical software (as show by Epocrates on Classic) could still be accessed even before the Pre was released.

Well, the release of the Pre and Classic came and went, and many of us felt the webOS platform was in dire need of a native med/pharm reference solution. Back in August, Derek reported that Lexi-Comp was indeed being developed for webOS; I was recently given an opportunity by them to take the pre-release beta for a spin and write up a Real Review.

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It’s late here at PreCentral HQ and it’s been a harrowing night: Palm released paid apps in the App Catalog, then they had to temporarily pull them due to a critical bug that, while it wasn’t a threat to users, caused significant heartburn for developers. While we waited for Palm’s team to resolve that situation with code fixes, we were elated to learn that the entire situation had just been solved with a policy fix.

It’s late here at PreCentral HQ, so forgive me if I ramble a bit, but Palm’s announcement this evening has me very excited not just for webOS as a platform, but for the entire mobile space.

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Today we’ve got three more Palm sightings to bring you: two Pre, a Pixi, and even a Treo Pro. First up we’ll look at NUMB3RS, where Dr. Charlie Eppes is seen sporting a Palm Pre early in the show, only to be talking on a Treo Pro twenty minutes later. So either he’s got two cell accounts, or being the mathematical genius that he is, Eppes has figured out how to get two phones on the same Sprint account. Or the NUMB3RS prop department screwed consistency in the way that only geeks like us would notice.

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Today we’ve got three more Palm sightings to bring you: two Pre, a Pixi, and even a Treo Pro. First up we’ll look at NUMB3RS, where Dr. Charlie Eppes is seen sporting a Palm Pre early in the show, only to be talking on a Treo Pro twenty minutes later. So either he’s got two cell accounts, or being the mathematical genius that he is, Eppes has figured out how to get two phones on the same Sprint account. Or the NUMB3RS prop department screwed consistency in the way that only geeks like us would notice.

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Hey PalmPreMadonna’s:

PreCentral shared a pic of Documents To Go and Adobe Reader on the Palm Pre. Tethering and e-readers seem really popular on the Pre discussion boards.

What are some of the top apps you want to see on the Palm Pre? I have a Blackberry Curve 8900 and here are my top 10 favorite apps:

1). Google: (Gmail, Mobile Search, Maps, Talk, and Calendar): Awesome

2). Remember the Milk: Integrates my PC todo list with my Blackberry (also interfaces with my Google calendar)

3). Viigo: Best RSS reader, I spend most of my time here…

4). Nimbuzz: Integrates Google Talk, Skype, ICQ, MSN Messenger, AIM, etc.

5). WSJ mobile app: Get all the latest news, it’s great

6). VyMail: Sexy little visual voicemail app

7). MobiPocket: I read all my ebooks and pdfs straight from my Blackberry

8). 123Spoof: This crazy application lets you spoof your phone number. You can call your friends and make it look like your boss. A stalker’s dream-come-true.

9). Trapster: Notifies you of speed traps and traffic cameras. After paying hundreds of dollars in tickets, this app is a life saver.

10). Vlingo: This is the best speech to text application on the market. It only works on Blackberry and iPhone right now.

11).  UberTwitter: Best Blackberry Twitter clent I’ve seen yet.

12). PageOnce: Instantly access online accounts like banks, Netflix, LinkedIn, etc.

13). Evernote: All in one note taking, picture storing, and voice note recording app. Super popular on the iPhone, just released on Blackberry.

What other apps would you like to see on the Palm Pre?

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Lots of people are eagerly awaiting the release of the Palm Pre. Many people are going to ditch their iPhones and Blackberry’s for the elegant Pre. A reivew on CNET about how the Palm Pre can multitask better than the iPhone is a must read for Blackberry/iPhone users who are thinking of getting the new Palm Pre. Some notable quotes from the article:

“Palm has generated buzz for the Pre unlike any other phone released since Apple’s iPhone arrived in June 2007… The two phones will be forever compared — not just because of their consumer-oriented styles and emphasis on gesture-based user interfaces, but because of the very real enmity between the proud team that worked on Apple’s historic iPhone breakthrough and the ex-Apple executives and engineers attempting to rebuild Palm.

While the iPhone has set the standard for future smartphones, Palm’s WebOS delivers two important improvements that the iPhone can’t yet match: true multitasking between applications, and a subtle notifications system that doesn’t interrupt your train of thought.

the subject of multitasking… has been a major criticism of the iPhone… outside of a few core applications, such as the phone and iPod player, an iPhone user must completely exit out of one application in order to use another.

Apple has said these limitations are necessary to prevent battery life from dropping off a cliff and to ensure application stability.

When a Pre user receives an e-mail or text message, that alert will pop up on the lower part of the Pre’s screen as a horizontal bar… but the alert won’t interrupt the application, and if the user chooses simply to ignore that alert, it will soon retreat to the lower edge of the screen

Apple’s approach lets you dismiss the alert and continue what you were doing but forces you to remember that you received notifications from a specific application, such as the ESPN Alerts application demonstrated at the iPhone 3.0 event“

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PreCentral, EverythingPre, and other mobile blogs are showing ads for the new Palm Pre on Best Buy’s site. BoyGeniusReport is sharing “inside info” about the Pre coming out in early June. To show how seriously Palm and Sprint are taking these threats, check out this article in the Guardian about how the Palm Pre is even more anticipated than the Amazon Kindle… pretty amazing considering the Kindle could supposedly revive the newspaper industry.

As you can see, lots of stuff happening… let’s see what happens when the Pre finally hits the streets!

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Below are excerpts from an article I read a few days ago about why mobile developers should drop the iPhone and switch to the new Palm Pre…

Proponents of webOS and the Pre say its appeal to developers is simple: Anyone who can develop for the Web in JavaScript can build apps for it. While offering a touch interface, the Pre will also have a physical keyboard, addressing one of the key shortcomings of the iPhone.

“One of the main frustrations I had with GUI development with things like Java is you have to write a whole bunch of code to build your GUI, whereas HTML is a declarative language,… “It really feels like the right environment for writing an inherently graphical application because they’ve separated the UI with the HTML and with CSS, where JavaScript has full functionality,” said an IBM manager who is working on PreDevCamp.

Evgeny Likhoded in the U.K. runs his own blog focused on webOS and plans to launch a Pre developer store.

Likhoded recently explained in a blog post why he is switching his allegiances from the iPhone to the Pre. Among the key reasons, Likhoded said in an interview, is the Pre’s ability to handle multitasking. “You can switch between applications very quickly,” he said. He also cites the Synergy feature, which allows for the integration of applications and online services. This capability will let developers have access to core services such as contacts, schedules and messaging. “This device will be much more integrated,” he said. “Plus, because it’s JavaScript, HTML and CSS, there are thousands of developers.”

You can read the entire article here

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Hey PreMadonna’s: There were rumors this week about the debut of the new Palm Pre the day before Apple’s keynote at WWDC in June. Love her or hate her, I couldn’t help but think about what Palm/Sprint could learn from the nomination of Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin last year.

1). Brains Are Nice, But Beauty…: Sarah Palin reads “all of”, “most of” and “any” publications to inform her of international events, but the real reason she made such a stir was, well, you know… The Pre is definitely beautiful, and looks quite brainy. It may actually outshine the Blackberry and the iPhone in both departments. Palm is definitely onto something with the new Palm.

2). Don’t Upstage the Front-Runner: McCain waited until the day after Obama made his vice-presidential nomination to nominate his VP candidate.   don’t try to overshadow Apple, do it afterwards if you must… Take the Wind Out of Their Sail by making your big announcement afterwards. TechCrunch said debuting the new Palm before Apple’s WWDC could very well blow the Pre right out of the water, one day into its young life

3). Want to Be It, or Be With It: The new Palm Pre is the perfect product like Sarah Palin. Even if you didn’t like Sarah Palin’s views, lots of people still wanted to look at her. Just in case all iPhone customers DON’T switch to the new Palm Pre many iPhone and Blackberry users can’t break their contracts will still be yearning for it. Consumers are saying the new Palm is definitely worth switching

4). Helping an Ailing Friend: Lots of conservative Republicans were against McCain, and some even threatened to stay home on election day in protest to McCain. GigaOM says Sprint lost 4.6 million customers last year and the NYTimes losing tons of money for a while. Sarah Palin gave large groups of “undecideds” a new reason to consider John McCain.

5). Dumb Found Your Competitors: Palin threw a lot of people off. Some would say that Democrats hadn’t figured out how to deal with Palin yet. In “Sarah Palin as Marketing Strategy” Phil Bernstein says “after some Obama aides blasted the selection, Obama himself made a point of praising her. So the choice may have the added benefit of tying the opposition up for a little while.” ATT is already getting a hissy fit about the new Palm Pre… seems like they’re pretty dumb founded to me.

This site is dedicated to the great new Palm reviews out there, but I couldn’t help myself from making a comparison between Sarah Palin and the Pre.

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This pic came from Jamie Wilson’s TwitPic page. According to PreCentral, Wilson is photographer who happened to be on the Warner Bros. studio when this 3D Facebook ad was being created. Seems like Sprint is banking a lot on the power of their smarthhones. Dan Hesse of Sprint has been talking a lot about their “Now Network”, and even mentions Facebook in this commercial. 

So it’ll be interesting to see what new commercials they come up with.

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I’m always looking for the best Blackberry and Palm blogs and sites… I love my Blackberry 8900 Curve and read about it constantly. They give me my daily dose of reviews, news, tips and free apps Here are my favorite Blackberry sites and blogs:

1). Crackberry

2). Berry Review

3). Blackberry Cool

4). Rimarkable

5). BBGeeks

Best Palm Pre blogs (besides PalmPreReviewer of course!):

1). PreCentral

2). Everything Pre

3). Palm WebOS

4). Pre Thinking

There are other Palm ones, but these 3 are almost exclusively focused on the Pre. 

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Most iPhone addicts and Blackberry lovers already know about the 14 Great Things Your iPhone and Blackberry Can Do but how long do we have to wait to see these kinds of apps on the Palm Pre? Developers… what apps are you developing for the Pre?

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Adage just broke a story on Sprint’s new Palm Pre ad campaign calling it “its most comprehensive web campaign ever” Sprint is beginning today with “home-page takeovers on Yahoo. Takeover ads will also appear on AOL, ESPN.com, WSJ.com, People.com, CNET and YouTube in the weeks ahead“

Some are saying this will be the biggest web ad push ever. They

“Work in the new campaign includes a series of interactive online ads customized to the sites’ specific audiences. For instance, Sprint’s ad on the Pandora music site spews out data such as the number of people listening to country music; on financial sites, an ad unit displays a meter that measures Wall Street’s mood — bearish or bullish — at a given moment. Omnicom Group’s Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, San Francisco, is behind the push.

In the web ads, Sprint will also recruit people to upload videos on YouTube to create a “human clock” in which users denote the time of day by displaying it with their fingers. The company will piece the clock together throughout the day as it sorts through the video submissions.

Sprint’s advertising manager, Candace Wolken, who oversaw the company’s latest digital efforts, said the carrier chose to take its message further online because it fits the ad theme. “The online medium allows you to do real-time things and lends itself to the immediacy of the things that are happening right now,” Ms. Wolken said. “It demonstrates what the Now Network is enabling and the relevance it has to people’s lives”

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CNET talks about Palm manipulating new Palm Pre supply. Collins Stewart analyst Ashok Kumar expects disappointing results for the Pre. CrunchGear saysin  Analyst: Palm Pre is Dying Kumar’s “supply chain checks indicate that Palm has “drastically reduced its production orders” for the Pre. Kumar says “multiple hardware and software issues” have forced Palm’s hand here and that he doesn’t expect the company to meet its expected goal of one million units shipped in the second half of 2009. He even goes so far as to describe that figure as “highly unrealistic.” With Sprint losing customers, Kumar sees it highly unlikely that Verizon and AT&T customers will switch to Sprint.

So what do you think? Would you consider switching to Sprint for the Pre? Do you think the new Palm Pre has a chance?

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There’s a funny post on PreCentral called, How should the Pre be stress tested? There are some pretty funny ideas in the comments section. Palm even mentioned some on the Palm twitter account (PREdiction: this twitter page will blow up in a month) But this post is more about publicity than it is about actually stress testing the new Palm Pre. So here’s my idea. I have a 20 month old son who can practically crack a walnut with his bare hands. I get panic attacks when he holds my Blackberry Curve 8900. So if Palm really wants to test their phone (and get an amazing story for PR), they should send a Palm Pre to every mommy (and daddy) blogger they can find and let their kids play with it for like a month. Then show some stats on how well the phones held up against the:

1. peanut butter and jelly
2. multiple drops on the concrete, tile, and mud
3. sliding it open and throwing it like a ninja star
4. temper-tantrum-driven throws against the wall
5. frantic pushing of buttons to get the funny cat and Elmo song videos to replay
6. pushing it around on the kitchen floor like it’s a car
7. drop in the toilet
8. barf, tears, and more barf
9. setting it dangerously close to a lit stove
10. using it as a cat toy
11. sticking it in the VCR (yes, we still have a VCR… get over it)
12. leaky bottle getting milk inside the phone
13. … and of course the blender

the Palm will be golden… Think about it, what better way to connect with the “pro-sumer” than giving them a phone that actually fits into their real life. If Palm is targeting prosumers, and not die-hard Blackberry/iPhone users, this would be a really smart move. Stop the WSJ ads, stop any crazy expensive commercials, cancel the nutty launch parties. Palm was on to something by approaching Howard Stern. But they need to go after less high-profile “tribal chiefs”. They are making a phone that most anybody wants, so they need to count on the common person to spread it laterally. Perfect example, I heard of Google when I was in college and we were researching a computer programming assignment. My friend said “just use Google, I love Google. I always find what I want” I have not searched with another search engine in the past 6 years. Also, until last week I thought Palm was a joke. I couldn’t understand what the hoopla was about so I asked my friend who is a Palm lover and he said “that’s because you aren’t reading about it”. Palm, reach out to small, but incredibly powerful, loyal, and trustworthy tribes and count on them to carry your message. Despite the positive press you’ve been getting, I wouldn’t have thought twice about you unless my friend told me about you. Congrats on reaching out to Howard Stern… I’m sorry it didn’t work out as you expected, but it was a risky (and noteworthy) move.

EdibleApple is exactly right in saying “the majority of this hype lies solely in the domain of the geeky who actually pay attention to what happens at CES.  The reality is that the average iPhone user probably has never even heard of the Palm Pre” and that’s exactly why Palm has to target non-tech tribal leaders like mommy bloggers.

Just in case you don’t believe me, Darren Rowse gives you 5 Reasons Mom Blogs are the Blogs to Watch Here’s a list of mommy bloggers from Guy Kawasaki. Get to it Palm, there isn’t much time…

Badgermama “Mom with a mohawk.” Watch Badgermama as she raises a son, lives as a writer in San Francisco and attends PTA meetings where the other moms pretend they’re not staring at her purple hair. Read Badgermama.

BeTwinned “The one-stop internet spot for parents of twins and multiples.” Welcome to an online magazine whose name was inspired by the song, “Bewitched, bothered and bewildered.” Edited by a mother of twins, journalist Diana Day. Learn more about Betwinned.

Busy Mom “Better parenting through coffee.” Busy Mom is 41 years old and has been married to Busy Dad for 15 years. They have three kids: Busy Girl (11), Busy Boy (9) and The Preschooler Formerly Known as Busy Baby (4)… Read Busy Mom.

Chookooloonks: The Journal “A Trinidadian term of endearment, used especially when addressing a child.” A former C-level executive, Karen is a full-time writer and photographer, with a wry wit and a good eye. Chookooloonks describes her daily life as an “Englameridadian,” being married to a Brit, and being the mother of a child so multicultural she defies categorization. And don’t miss her other blogs: Blogging Baby, Emerald Market, and The Pan Collective. Learn more about Chookooloonks.

CityMama “Mama ain’t raisin’ no fool.” Welcome to the private site of a 36-year-old hip-hop- and new-wave-music-obsessed, city-dwelling mother of two. You may already know her as professional blogger Stefania Butler (Slashfood, Blogging Baby)… Learn more about CityMama.

Family Living; Hatfield Style Not McCoy style! Jenna blogs about family life, fire and military life, homeownership, broadcasting drama and, of course, “the cutest baby on the planet.” Content also includes photography, book and product reviews and the occasional — but necessary — rant. Learn more about The JHatfields.

Fussy “I’m your host, Mrs. Kennedy” An editor-turned-blogger takes on the struggle to live life as a thinking person while trying to get a small boy to school on time without dog biscuits in his teeth. Learn more about Fussy.

I’m Ablogging “Putting the ‘mo’ in ‘mofo’ since 2004;” Meghan is 33 years old, has an 11 month-old daughter, a big, handsome Dutch husband and two dogs. “I live in a rambler in the suburbs and I drive a freaking minivan for God’s sake,” she writes. “What happened to me?” Well, she co-founded Mommybloggers with Jenn Satterwhite and Jenny Lauck, for one thing! Read I’m Ablogging.

IzzyMom “Faking it since the turn of the century.” Meet Izzy, a thirtysomething mother and mildly sarcastic mommy blogger. Occasionally serious, usually funny and always honest observations, stories and rants on everything from body image and preschool politics to motherhood and marriage. Learn more about IzzyMom.

jenandtonic “Like toilet paper stuck to the heel of your shoe.” In this personal, humorous blog, JenB talks about her family, parenting her two-year-old, her personal struggles, television, music and books. Read jenandtonic.

Joy Unexpected “Taking aerobic dancing seriously since 2005.” I’m a 34 year old woman married to the same man for 15 years, mother to two handsome boys and one beautiful baby girl, who was not planned but who turned out to be the Unexpected Joy of our lives. My blog is an honest reflection of who I am and the crazy, yet completely ordinary life I live. Read Joy Unexpected.

Kimchi Mamas “Meet Nina, Twizzle, Irane, Linda, Delia, Weigook Saram and Stefania…” What better name for a blog written by a group of Korean and married-to-Korean mothers than Kimchi Mamas? After all, they say, “We’re a little spicy, plenty fiery, and sometimes? We like to get pickled.” Read Kimchi Mamas.

Mom-101 “I don’t know what I’m doing either.” Liz, a NYC writer hailing from the justly-maligned world of advertising, fell in love with the funny guy from improv class and begat Thalia. “Turns out we got the best one,” writes Liz. “Now if only I knew what I was doing” Learn more about Mom-101.

Mommybloggers “Mom by mom, we are changing our world!” The goal of Mommybloggers is to expose the diversity of the writers who commonly fall under the label mommyblogger. “Love the term or hate it, Mommybloggers are here to stay,” say co-founders Jenn Satterwhite, Jenny Lauck and Meghan Townsend. Learn more about the Mommybloggers.

Mommy Needs Coffee “On a never-ending search to find a way to receive her coffee intravenously!” Welcome to the personal blog of Mommybloggers co-founder Jenn Satterwhite. In between loads of laundry and soccer games, Jenn blogs, writes essays and is currently finishing her debut book. Learn more about Mommy Needs Coffee.

Mom To The Screaming Masses “Picking up your socks since 1992.” Carmen is a stay-at-home mom to six kids. She’s a Starbucks addict and a huge fan of naps. When she’s not scaling Mt. Laundry, cleaning, driving carpool, or cooking, she likes to read and run. Read Mom To The Screaming Masses.

mothergoosemouse Julie has always been full of contradictions. She’s been an honor student, harpist, punk rocker, cheerleader, Air Force officer, record company employee, a wife, and a mother to a Goose and a Mouse. You may need a map to follow her train of thought, but at least it makes some pretty interesting stops. Read mothergoosemouse.

Motherhood Uncensored It’s a no-more-mrs.-nice-mom take on the mom blog. The faint of heart or weak of stomach need not apply. Kristen is taking off her mommy mask and letting it all hang out. Read Motherhood Uncensored.

Mom Writes “Writing to Stay Sane While Caring for Little People with Big Needs.” Mary Tsao is a stay-at-home mother who lives in Silicon Valley with her engineer husband and their two toddlers. In her former life she was a technical writer, but she knows far more people read her blog than ever read her user guides. Read Mom Writes.

Ninjapoodles “Beware the four-pointed paw of death” If it’s happening in Belinda’s life, it’s probably reflected on her blog. A Southerner, Democrat, and Christian, this ”walking contradiction” blogs about her daughter, marriage, family, health issues, showdogs, horses, church, society, and more. And there are poodles. Ninja poodles. Learn more about Ninjapoodles.

Not Calm (dot com) “Yes, they are all mine.” Jen is a 35 year old recovering hard-core Dr. Sears type parent of four kids, ages 3, 5, 7 & 9, who is discovering the joys of NOT cosleeping (well, not much) anymore. She has been breastfeeding for nearly ten years. Yes, TEN. Learn more about Not Calm (dot com).

Notes from the Trenches Fighting the war on tantrums since 1994. Formerly The Big Yellow House. Meet Chris, over-educated mother of six boys and one girl, struggling to stay sane despite the efforts of her children. And yes, she knows what causes it. Read Notes from the Trenches.

Silicon Valley Moms Blog A byte of Silicon Valley life. Welcome to Silicon Valley, where 20+ moms write about being CEOs at work and CFOs at home, where houses are expensive, kids love sushi and have web businesses, and moms are too busy chauffeuring kids to raise a sword in the mommywars. Read the Silicon Valley Moms Blog.

Spot-On.com A social commentary site devoted to showcasing new voices, many of them women: From just west of Washington, D.C. Jeanne Jackson writes about pop culture, raising kids and just how wacky the world can be if you let it get to you. Experienced journalist Deborah Klosky writes about motherhood from a feminist perspective from her ex-pat perch in Valencia, Spain. From Milan, Nicole Martinelli writes about European culture and politics. And, of course, Spot-On Founder and Editor Chris Nolan, a veteran political journalist who decided to stop yelling at her TV set and instead write and publish her own political commentary. Nolan isn’t a mom. But some of her favorite bloggers are. Learn more about Spot-on.com. Coming soon!

State of Grace You may already know Grace from the Hurricane Katrina Direct Relief Fund blog and SFGate. Here Grace blogs about her teen daughter, her happy marriage and her musings as a “rowdy, badass woman in her 50s.” Learn more about the State of Grace.

Suburban Turmoil …is what you get when you combine a two-year-old daughter, 15 and 13-year-old stepdaughters, an alpha male husband, a braying beagle, a bunch of annoying neighbors and a 30-year-old woman trying to make them all happy and look damn good in the process. Read Suburban Turmoil.

Surrender Dorothy Rita Arens is a writer and mother living with her husband and daughter in Kansas City.  Her magazine articles, fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous periodicals. Read Surrender Dorothy.

Sweetney Muthablogga in residence. Keyboard at the ready, this 30-something SAHM (stay at home mom) ranges far and wide in her blog, from daily life raising a preschooler to music, current events and politics. Read Sweetney.

This Full House “Don’t make me have to use UPPERCASE!” This Full House is a full-frontal encounter into Liz’s life as a mom with four children, two cats, one super hyper sock-eating chocolate lab and too damned much laundry. Learn more about This Full House.

Three Kid Circus “Helping Other Parents Feel Superior, One Blog Entry At A Time.” Witty, warm and self-deprecating, Jenny Lauck takes a humorous look at parenting three young children in the suburbs. Learn more about Three Kid Circus.

Troll Baby “Put some fun in YOUR dysfunction.” A hilarious (and sometimes serious) blog from the point of view of a mother of two boys - one Good Child and one Troll Baby. Read Troll Baby.

Woulda Coulda Shoulda “How exactly did I get here?” Perhaps the Web’s funniest single mom, Mir is trying to figure out what she wants to be when she grows up-despite already being a divorced 30-something with two small, demanding creatures underfoot. She also recently launched Want Not, about her quest to live a fulfilled life without benefit of endless buckets of money. Learn more about Mir and her goals for Want Not

Amalah

Antique Mommy I was 44 when I had my baby. This blog chronicles the joys and challenges of living in the brave new world of hot flashes, sloppy cookie kisses, and trimming itty bitty fingernails while wearing bi-focals.

Babylune. The first phase of new motherhood is an information resource for women recovering from childbirth. It is written by Kate Baggott—a technology journalist—while she is on a reduced-schedule maternity leave.

Business Mom

ClubMom This is the mother lode of mommy blogs. “Best of.” “Featured.” “Directory.” You name it…

Crib Ceiling Krisco is a full time stay-at-home mom to two little cuties. She used to be something. She forgot what. Still somewhat startled at the changes, loving the dollies, hating the housework. (Update: And now, she’s working again! Will her old self return? Can she find matching shoes? Will anyone do the laundry?)

Dooce Heather’s clever writing and gorgeous photos charm and surprise readers. In addition to SAHMs, writers, creative types and techies alike can’t get by without a daily Dooce fix.

GwendomamaTrying to keep expletives to a minimum while raising her two children and dealing with the death of The Other One. Wears Birkenstocks, has dirty feet, enjoys music, baking, writing, fine wine, finger painting, and digging sand out of mouths.

Hormone Colored Days Breaking through her hormone-colored daze Kim Moldofsky muses on parenting and stay-at-home moms returning to the world of paid work. When PMS strikes, she takes care not to leave chocolate fingerprints on her keyboard as she rants about our nation’s public schools and how the system leaves gifted children behind.

Little Pregnant (A) Madcap misadventures in infertility, pregnancy, prematurity, and parenthood. Cranky, introspective, frank, and funny, sometimes all at once.

Livin’ Large Seven kids, one exchange student, three dogs, two cats, two birds, four goats, fifteen chickens, and a 500-lb. pig named Florence —but who’s counting? Uber-Mama Natalie writes on life, kids, and how she manages her super-sized family without resorting to Valium or a paid staff. Sometimes touching, sometimes funny, always better than a kick in the head. Well, most of the time…

Lucky Mom Happy married with an almost 3 year old, the Lucky in Lucky Mom could come crashing down soon as baby #2 (and last!) is due in less than 3 months. Will her luck run out?

Mama Drama Five Texas mommies dish the dirt on the real down-and-dirty rites of motherhood. The mommies run the spectrum from SAHM’s to full-time professionals, from single to married, and from wrangling their babies to strangling (or at least wanting to strangle) their teens.

Mamalogues A younger, more neurotic Irma Bombeck.

Motherload: The MomAdvice.com Blog Mother of two and founder of MomAdvice.com, Amy dishes out her advice for moms on creative home solutions, saving money, feeding your family, and anything else that will help keep your sanity.

Mommy Blog (The) A naked, brutally funny, endearingly honest chronicle of family life beset by disaster on many fronts. Mindy keeps her family together through catastrophic illness, four bouts of postpartum depression, financial peril, familial Waterloo, and job instability.

Mommy Off the Record Here’s Hoping My Kids Won’t Need Therapy. A twenty-something mom trying to find the humor in new motherhood.

MomSquawk Blog

My Name Is Mommy A few funny stories documenting one mom’s utter failure in raising three perfect children, but some success and joy at managing a pretty happy family…for the most part.

Parent Hacks A collaborative weblog of practical parenting wisdom.

Play Is In the Work

Purple Is a Fruit

Quick Serve Kids

Rockstar Mommy

SharpMom

Sundry Mourning

Surcie: A Little Treat, Just Because She blogs from the kitchen table and eats something chocolatey while The Boy Child (age 3) takes the much anticipated Afternoon Nap.

Thrifty MommyThrifty mommy is just her way of showing you how to save time and money without feeling like you are pinching pennies. Great sales both online and at the stores are coupled with time saving ideas to hopefully inspire and challenge you to pass on the tradition of frugal living with your kids.

White Trash Mom

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A employee of Sprint posted some details about the new Palm Pre on Inside Sprint Now. Some of the excitting features include:

Cool Stuff

• “Data wipe” feature that allows you to remotely remove personal data if your phone is ever lost of stolen. This is critical given the high profile stolen government laptop stories and ever since Paris Hilton’s phone was stolen we keep hearing about in the news. There’s a pretty useful security application for the Blackberry
• “Trackball Mode” which will evidently let you swipe one character at a time. Furthermore the user can also so the same thing with the shift key and result in selecting text as they swipe. There is also a “Smart deletion” where the user holds down the delete key and can thus delete a complete word, and there is also an auto-correct feature as well.
• Universal search allows you to enter text and be given matching application and/or web results.
• Palm Synergy feature is a key feature of the webOS platform that brings your information from all the places it resides into one logical view. With the Synergy feature, when there are matches of contacts, it automatically connects the information in a linked view
• Contacts is an example of an application that can use data from the Internet and from internal storage. For example, Contacts can get data from a Facebook account. It retrieves this data through its Internet connection. If there is no internet connection, Contacts will simply pull the data from on-phone storage so that you can still see your contacts.

Disappointments

• No ‘phone as modem” aka tethering. There are plenty of great Blackberry tethering (phone as modem) options, and I know of people who would pay big money for it, but alas, doesn’t look possible on the Palm Pre
• It will support up to 8 email addresses, but it won’t support Sprint PictureMail, Sprint Music, or the Sprint Digital Lounge
• Flash won’t work in the web browser. SkyFire might be an option. I know they’re coming out with a new Blackberry compatible browser.

Most of the other details are things we already knew, but it was nice to read about them as well including “cards”, internet connectivity, etc. The new Palm is definitely cool, but is it enough to make you give up your Blackbery, iPhone, or G1?

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This Palm Pre is the gritty palm pre review…

the commentary and discussion in the background are better than the actual video.

TheStreet gives us this pretty Palm Pre video..

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PCWorld has pretty objective review of the Pre compared to the iPhone. And “holy App Store, Batman” watch this Palm Pre vs iPhone smackdown video for some comic relief…

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TheStreet.com tells us the the Palm Pre is Something to Tweet About, garnering over 30 million online mentions. No wonder ATT and Apple are getting heartburn and sounding desperate over the new  Palm…

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