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Palm's New Pre Smartphone Looks Good! Palm bet the company on a new smartphone platform, and it looks like the bet could pay off. Palm unveiled its new platform, Web OS, and its first phone, Pre, today at CES in Las Vegas. We didn't get our mitts on it just yet, but from what we've seen, it looks pretty good. Which means... look out Apple, RIM, Google, and Microsoft. Read > How Sprint Needs To Sell The Palm Pre: Soon, Cheap Apple Loses Multi-Touch Exclusive To Palm Memo To RIM, Windows Mobile: Palm Just Kicked Your Butt (Video Of Pre)

The Google Apps Revenue Myth: $10mm In 2009 Two years after launching Apps, Google's Enterprise division is targeting revenue of $10 million in 2009 (200,000 paid subscribers at $50 a pop), according to a source. The same source says that, privately, some Google executives hope the company might hit $40 million of revenue in 2009 (800,000 subs at $50 a pop). Both of these numbers are a joke. Read >

Amazon's Holiday Miracle: Spending-Per-Customer Up 17% Most analysts assumed the cratering economy in December would slow holiday sales, with gift-givers still buying things, just cheaper items than last year. Read >

Ballmer: The Time For Yahoo Search Deal Is Now Last we heard from Jerry, he was finally ready to do a search deal with Microsoft. And now, apparently, Steve Ballmer is ready to listen. Read >

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Advertisement New York Real Estate Outlook: Mega-Crash Goldman Sachs: New York apartment "prices would need to fall as much as 58% to return to the 1995-1999 price/income ratio." All we can say is look out below. Read > Sony: Our President Was Wrong, TV Sales Are Fine So are Sony's (SNE) Bravia LCD HDTVs selling well or not? These aren't the only confused sounds Sony's been making lately: Earlier this week, Sony sources told the Times (UK) the company was preparing "sacred cow-slaying" measures, only for Sony spokesmen to immediately deny the report. Read > eBay Typosquatting Scam Rips Off Amazon Type "amazon.cm" into your browser (omit the "o") : The request will redirect to Amazon's (AMZN) rival eBay (EBAY). Read > Microsoft: Blu-ray Never Coming To Xbox 360 No matter what else happens in the Xbox 360 vs PS3 fight, Sony will always have one feature Microsoft forswears: Blu-ray. Read >

Dell Slashes 1,900 Irish Jobs, Moves Some To Cheap Poland Sorry, Sony, PS3 Is Not Actually Cheaper Than XBox Obama On Blackberry "They're Going To Pry It Out Of My Hands." At CES, A New Focus On Cheap

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