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Morning Xtra: Stern Picks BBerry Over Pre, Lohan Breaks Up via Twitter

by Tom Samiljan on April 6, 2009 at 11:56 AM



Howard Stern Picks BlackBerry Bold Over Palm Pre
Stern stated he was finally ready to update his Treo phone, so Palm brought him a Pre in order to see if the Sirius shock jock would bite and then talk about the device on his satellite radio show. Unfortunately, according to ZDNet, it looks as though Stern picked the BlackBerry Bold over the Pre, saying it's because the former works with Lotus Notes and the latter doesn't. We're not sure if Stern got any extended hands-on with the Pre -- no one else has, so far -- but it probably would have helped sell him on the device. It's easy to pick a BlackBerry Bold since it's a finished, working product. So, Palm, if the Pre actually makes it into Oprah's hands, consider letting her really get to play with it. [From: ZDNet]


Lohan Dumps Ronson Via Twitter
If anyone needed a dialing-or-texting-under-the-influence blocker, it's Lindsay Lohan, who once again seems to be airing her dirty laundry out in public via Twitter, this time over a breakup with DJ Samantha Ronson. "I'm doing this publicly because u&ur friends call People mag" is just one of the TMI-tinged tidbits, of which you can find more at HollyScoop. Well, at least it's not corny! [From: HollyScoop, via Gawker]




Nokia N75 Shipping at Last!
One of our favorite new phones, the mouth-watering Nokia N75, is finally available. Featuring a sleek, metallic body with red or black faceplates, as well as a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, the N75 is aimed at heavy e-mail and text-message users, due to Nokia's new user-friendly e-mail app and its 3G and Wi-Fi capability. In addition, the phone will be compatible with all the cool apps to be made available on Nokia's Ovi store, which launches in June. Although it'll work with T-Mobile and AT&T in the U.S., the E75 isn't officially available from any U.S. carrier (and therefore not subsidized), so you'll have to order it directly from Nokia's Web site for a pricey $529. [From: Nokia, via Engadget]


YouTube Will Lose Almost $500M This Year, Says Analyst
Even though its revenues are up 20-percent and it remains the premier online video destination, YouTube will likely lose almost $500 million this year, according to CreditSuisse analyst Spencer Wang. Apparently, it's because it costs a lot to run YouTube, since it needs boatloads of costly bandwidth to provide us with low-res versions of all those bad lipsync videos and mashups. [From: PaidContent]


Senate Introduces Bill to Curb Mobile Spam
Is mobile spam in the form of text messages starting to bug you as much as e-mail spam? If so, you're not alone. The problem has become big enough that two U.S. senators last week introduced a bill to restrict and block commercial text messages to numbers that are on the Do Not Call registry. This should work, of course, provided that companies actually take the Do Not Call registry seriously.
[From: Mediapost, via Textually]

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