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Palm Pre may stir up Apple's legal team Most iPhone wannabes have tried to avoid appearing too similar to Apple's uber-phone for legal reasons. But Palm waded directly into that pool with its newest device, the soon-to-be-released Palm Pre, and there are... (link)

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