You can hear more about open source and mobile cloud sync from Mike Taczak, a team lead for Webmail apps at Rackspace, as he describes how the company uses Funambol in the video below.

Funambol, an open-source mobile cloud sync company, seems to agree with this view of the future. When I spoke to Fabrizio Capobiano, CEO at Funambol, he said: “Mobile cloud sync is emerging as a major new category of wireless services. Apple, Google, Nokia, Microsoft, Palm, and others recently introduced mobile cloud sync services and all mobile operators and ISPs are racing to keep up. Current solutions are fairly basic, but open source is enabling more flexibility and innovation among these folks because it is so easy to adapt.”

A recent study released by ABI Research says that limited processing power, battery life, and data storage will limit mobile application growth in the mass market, even among smartphones like Apple’s iPhone.

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But, applications that connect to cloud resources are much more likely to be successful than those that run only on the mobile device.

ABI Research predicts mobile cloud computing will deliver annual revenues topping $20 billion over the next five years. ABI Research senior analyst Mark Beccue says device fragmentation and memory currently limit the level of sophistication developers can deliver through mobile apps. By contrast, running mobile applications in the cloud will free up mobile processors while also enabling developers to create just one version of their application.

“Cloud computing will bring unprecedented sophistication to mobile applications,” noted Beccue. “To mention just a few examples, business users will benefit from collaboration and data sharing apps. Personal users will gain from remote access apps allowing them to monitor home security systems, PCs or DVRs, and from social networking mashups that let them share photos and video or incorporate their phone address books and calendars.”

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According to a report from TheStreet.com, Verizon Wireless execs are reconsidering whether to begin offering Palm’s touch screen smartphone in January as many have anticipated.

Sprint’s CEO Dan Hesse said the device was exclusive to Sprint through 2009, which left many market watchers expecting a Verizon version to land sometime in January 2010. Hopes for a Verizon version of the Pre were bolstered recently when Palm’s new CEO Jon Rubinstein said he expects the device to be offered on other networks very soon.

Supporting the Pre would not only require Verizon to invest in more marketing to push the device, but it would also require the company put resources into supporting Palm’s WebOS operating system.

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The Pre was announced at CES in January amid much fanfare. And after months of anticipation, Palm launched the device in June exclusively on Sprint Nextel’s network. Shortly before the device was launched on Sprint’s network, Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell McAdam said it would offer the Pre on the Verizon Wireless network within six months.

Another issue is that Verizon supposedly wants its VCast application and download store to be featured on the phone. But this will compete directly with Palm’s own app store. Yet another reason why Verizon might be balking at a deal is that the company plans to put most of its marketing might behind new RIM BlackBerry devices and the Motorola Google Android devices that will be launched later this year.

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If TheStreet.com story is true and Verizon does not sell the Pre, it will be a major blow to Palm, which needs to expand its sales channels for the device. The company has already announced a few other deals for the Pre. Bell Mobility in Canada and Telefonica’s O@ in the U.K. and Germany are also exclusive partners.

Palm representatives were unable to be reached, but they declined to comment in TheStreet.com story. And Verizon Wireless representatives declined to comment.

But now it looks like Verizon is having a change of heart. The Street.com said its sources have cited several reasons why Verizon execs may be getting cold feet. For one, the Palm Pre has had modest sales compared to sales of competing devices such as Apple’s
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On Wednesday, MySpace announced that it had aquired iLike for an undisclosed amount of money. The news that the two sides were close to the deal had leaked days ago, so it wasn’t a surprise.

According to one music industry source, Facebook users may be able to start buying downloads from iLike’s Facebook app as soon as this week. Seattle-based iLike and its new parent company MySpace aren’t wasting anytime testing Facebook.

But MySpace appears to be positioning itself to either force Facebook to boot iLike’s service and risk a public relations backlash, or allow MySpace, its main rival, to profit off of its audience. The situation has to be a little embarrassing for Facebook managers.

I don’t have it confirmed yet, but it appears iLike is preparing to integrate its new music download store into its popular Facebook application sometime soon.

So it makes sense that Partovi continued to pursue the licensing agreements even after MySpace’s acquisition of the company looked inevitable.

Months ago, iLike began discussing music licensing deals with the four biggest recording companies. Last week, CNET News broke the news that the start-up’s download store was opening.

If nothing else, the iLike deal should help morale inside MySpace.

What this says is that contrary to what some sources have told me, MySpace is interested in iLike’s traffic and music service and not just on some bits of its technology.

The iLike acquisition isn’t going to change much, but it is something for MySpace to cheer about. For a long time, Facebook has thrashed Rupert Murdoch’s troops in almost every area.

Something I couldn’t figure out when I first read that MySpace was trying to acquire iLike was why did iLike CEO Ali Partovi continue to pursue licensing deals in the weeks leading up to the acquisition. He must have known that MySpace Music already possessed rights to sell downloads. What would iLike need with its own agreements?

But the music licenses acquired by MySpace Music would not have covered iLike. Last year, iLike learned the hard way that every service has to cut its own deals with the labels. The start-up tried to acquire access to full-length songs from Rhapsody, the music subscription service. The labels put a quick stop to that.

Wouldn’t it be nice if you could find interesting things to read on the mobile Web much more quickly and easily?

The CBS Mobile Web site will display suggested articles in the form of “Your Headlines.” Because content suggestions are user-driven, they change throughout the day based on natural shifts in interest from morning news, to feature articles, to breaking stories and trends.

CBS hopes that by using the Aggregate Knowledge technology, which is already used on traditional Web sites like BusinessWeek.com and WashingtonPost.com, it will be able to deliver more targeted and relevant content to the people who visit the CBS Mobile Web site.

The companies plan to formally announce their partnership on Wednesday, and the new feature will appear on the CBS Mobile Web site starting this week.

“What we are really trying to do is make the discovery of content on the phone much easier and more relevant than it is today,” said Jeff Sellinger, executive vice president of CBS Mobile. “If we can make it easier to get to content that people want, they’ll have a much better experience and they’ll come back.”

Screenshot of the "Your Headlines" box.

CBS is using the technology initially to help direct relevant news stories to users. But in the future it could use it to also deliver targeted advertising to cell phone users.

Now, CBS Mobile says that it has just the feature on its mobile WAP site to help readers dig deeper into mobile Web sites and to find the stories they want to read much more easily. The media giant has partnered with a company called Aggregate Knowledge, which sifts through click-histories of every story on the site and looks at users in aggregate in order to find patterns in those clicks so that it can recommend the most relevant Web content based on what other people with similar tastes are reading and clicking on.

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For example, if someone is reading a story about new high-definition TVs, a link might appear next to the article that says, “People who read this article bought this Sony TV.”

Mobile phones are highly personalized devices. And the general consensus among mobile experts is that people want highly relevant content when they search the Web from a mobile phone. They are typically looking for something specific, and they don’t have the time or patience to click through several menus to find what they want.

The example Aggregate Knowledge uses is suppose a user reads an article about “super delegates.” He might be led to a story about the upcoming democratic primaries because others who read about the super delegates went on to read about the primary.

It will be interesting to see how well the technology actually works in this capacity. Also, once you throw advertising into the mix, mobile operators will likely be looking for their cut of the revenue. So it could take awhile for CBS Mobile and others to hash out a deal to include targeted advertising. Even though mobile operators say they want to offer advertising, they have been slow to try it.

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If you can tell me what this is a picture of, and where it’s located, and be the first to do so (by e-mail to daniel–dot–terdiman–at–cnet–dot–com) you’ll win a prize.

So maybe that’s why, in the many trips I’ve taken over the past decade or so to states like Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and others, I’ve enjoyed seeing the crazy things that Mother Nature can do with her rocks, so to speak.

Update (Monday 10:09 a.m.): The answer is that this is the so-called “Mexican Hat,” just outside Mexican Hat, Utah.

During Road Trip 2009, I’ve driven by some amazing rock formations, but this one was definitely one of my favorites. Do you know what, and where it is? If you’re the first to tell me, you’ll win a prize.

If you can, please be sure to include the subject line, “Picture of the day, 7/24″ in your e-mail.

SIERRA MADRE MOUNTAINS, Wyo.–Coming from the San Francisco Bay Area, the incredible rock formations so familiar to people from throughout the Southwest and some northern states were not part of my childhood.

During Road Trip 2009, which has taken me thousands of miles through Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming, I’ve certainly seen my share: buttes, mesas, lava fields, and plenty of other outstanding geologic formations. And that’s led me to today’s Road Trip picture of the day challenge.

For the next few days, Geek Gestalt will be on Road Trip 2009. After driving more than 12,000 miles in the Pacific Northwest, the Southwest and the Southeast over the last three years, I’ll be writing about and photographing the best in technology, science, military, nature, aviation, and more in Wyoming and Colorado. If you have a suggestion for someplace to visit, drop me a line. And in the meantime, join the Road Trip 2009 Facebook page and follow my Twitter feed.

It’s called Prologue, and it’s a new theme for WordPress.com users and blogs running off hosted WordPress installs. The goal of the theme is to let anyone setup a microblog, either for themselves or as a group–both public and private. Users can post short, to-the-point messages to their blog without having to go through WordPress’ primary interface. It’s essentially doing what Twitter can’t, which is letting people create their own private groups and tag their posts for sorting later on.

Automattic (the creators of WordPress) has created a microblogging service, but it’s not for everyone–and that’s the point.

In an introductory blog post, WordPress creator and former CNET’er Matt Mullenweg noted that “many” Automattic employees were already using Twitter, but wanted something with a little more versatility and with more privacy controls, which led to the creation of Prologue. The one thing that’s still missing is a first party mobile front end. Despite the strong efforts from many third party developers to create their own, there still isn’t a simple way to get it done unless you’ve got your own hosted blog with the right plug-ins, something competitor Movable Type has been a little more proactive about.

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Besides its privacy and tag controls, the real power of Prologue is that any WordPress user can adopt it on top of their current blog. It’s also got a leg up on the competition by letting other users comment on a Prologue post like they would a normal blog post, complete with conversation threading and a permalink in case you feel like sharing that conversation or single comment with someone else. Sounds an awful lot like a forum to me, but considering Automattic is aiming this at “small groups” it’s nice to directly reply to someone without an @username that they have to fish out later on.

Skip WordPress' powerful blogging front-end and check out Prologue, a simplified microblogging front-end that lets you write small posts by yourself or with a group of others.

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Though Tuesday marks the global announcement of the new Vostro laptops, they won’t be available in North America until May 1 (and the Vostro 1710 isn’t expected until mid-May). We have a Vostro 1310 review unit in our offices, and so far, we’re pleased with its upscale looks and sturdy construction. We’re still putting it through the paces, though, so keep an eye out for a full review of the Vostro 1310 within the next few days.

Vostro owners also have access to a dedicated support line (with “small business trained” technicians), plus one year of free access to 10GB of online backup space and to the company’s Automated PC Tune-up, which regularly performs basic system maintenance. More details can be found on Dell’s site.

The low starting prices are part of the plan to appeal to companies with one to 25 employees who need business-level systems, but don’t have a full-time information technology staff. Hardwarewise, the laptops aren’t very different from Dell’s existing lineup; the key differentiator lies in security and support options. The Vostro line offers such niceties as a Trusted Platform Module, Webcam, and fingerprint reader, as well as a generous 30-day return policy that lets you take the laptop for a test drive without paying any restocking fees.

Dell announced Tuesday that it would introduce three new laptops in its Vostro line for small businesses. The 13.3-inch Vostro 1310, with a starting price of $749, brings a new form factor to the lineup. Meanwhile the 15.4-inch Vostro 1510 (starting at $599) and 17-inch Vostro 1710 (pricing not yet available) are refreshes of existing models.

Later in the week, MySpace plans to launch another site in another crucial tech market: India–which happens to be one of the hot spots for Google’s social-networking site, Orkut. Surrounding the debut of MySpace India will be a developer “hackathon” in Bangalore as well as a rock concert in Mumbai.

MySpace has more at stake with its Korean launch, too: The site hopes that by broadening its base in Korea, it can take advantage of the country’s tech talent as it attempts to catch up where rival social networks like Facebook have jumped ahead in innovation. More specifically, MySpace aims to win over Korean programmers to contribute to its OpenSocial-compatible developer platform, which launched last month.

MySpace Korea's homepage: a little bit more Web 2.0 than what we get here in the U.S.

The site’s official launch party, on Tuesday night, will be held at a design museum near Seoul’s Hongik university; later in the week, MySpace will be holding a conference for developers at which Travis Katz, general manager of MySpace’s international effort, will be speaking. Co-founder and CEO Chris DeWolfe has also traveled to Seoul to spread the word about the site launch.

Unlike its Korean counterpart, the beta site for MySpace India appears to be primarily English-language.

But in Korea, MySpace faces an extra snag: The small Asian nation is famously tech-adept, with broadband penetration and mobile technology seemingly light-years ahead of the U.S. (and here, MySpace doesn’t exactly have a reputation as a technology leader, though it remains the most popular social-networking site). Other social-networking sites, like the virtual world Cyworld, already have a lock on the youth market. So what is MySpace doing? It’s deliberately courting Korea’s high-tech and digital-creative crowds.

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News Corp.’s MySpace.com has launched the latest of its international editions, MySpace Korea. Like many of its other regionally focused portals, MySpace Korea includes popular music and video content and social-networking profiles. No surprise there.

MySpace Korea, as a result, has a sleeker design than most of its global brethren, as well as a few features created locally: a “Minilog” platform, which sounds a bit like Twitter-esque microblogging, and design “skins” created by Korean artists.

From iFixit’s photos, we see that the battery is the biggest internal component by far. It is held in place by nine screws, in case you were thinking about replacing it yourself. Like the iPod, the 80GB hard drive is protected by both a rubber bumper and a layer of foam (similar to what we found when replacing an iPod hard drive a couple of years ago). The custom Intel CPU is protected by an unusual thin aluminum heat sink–necessitated by the laptop’s slim design.

You can check out the dozens of detailed photos, and a piece by piece count of the 88 screws that hold it together, over at iFixit’s MacBook Air autopsy.

Leave it to the guys at iFixit to get a new MacBook Air and, instead of showing off at the local coffee shop (like us), they take the thing apart. The company specializes in
Mac and
iPod parts and repairs, but it is perhaps best known for taking every new Apple product and dissecting it. They then post step-by-step photos and a detailed analysis of the parts inside.

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He also said that BP is very optimistic it can make carbon capture and storage commercially viable because of its experience in oil and gas exploration. Carbon dioxide is injected underground to help oil and gas extraction.

Correction 10:20 a.m. PST: This blog misstated the day that BP CEO Tony Hayward spoke at the conference. It is Tuesday.

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A global system, where carbon allowances are traded around the world, would be optimal. But individual countries or regions should implement their own systems and then seek to coordinate with other carbon-trading markets, a process that would mimic how financial markets evolved.

Hayward spoke at the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC) 2008 where he called for more aggressive government policies to address both climate change and energy security, which he said were interlinked.

Specifically, he said that nations need adopt a market-based mechanism, called a “cap and trade” system, to limit greenhouse gas emissions, including carbon dioxide. He also said that government “transitional” incentives are required to speed up development of clean technologies.

BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward

“Nobody can doubt the financial markets are now global but they grew up in individual countries,” he said, noting that California has already begun the process of integrating with Europe’s carbon market.

BP’s primary business is oil and gas exploration but the company has been on the forefront of developing an alternative-energy business, even changing its name from British Petroleum to BP and adopting the tagline “Beyond Petroleum.” It has spent $30 billion on exploration since 2001 and intends to invest another $30 billion in the next six years.

It now has a wind and solar business and is partnering with universities to develop “next-generation biofuels” that do not use food crops and are better fuels than ethanol, Hayward said.

WASHINGTON–Amid rumors that BP will sell its alternative-energy business, company Chief Executive Tony Hayward on Tuesday said that the current scale of the clean-tech industry will not be enough to address the world’s energy challenges.

Altogether BP spends $1 billion a year in alternative energy; the company is rumored to be looking at a sale of that business. Hayward spoke last week at an investor conference, where company watchers interpreted his comments as a signal that it may choose to focus on its core oil and gas business.

“Even though clean tech is growing fast, we all need to be honest,” he said during a ministerial plenary session. “The scale that the industry is working at today is not going to have much impact.”

He said carbon regulations should put a price on pollution. Hayward favors a cap and trade system, where polluters can trade carbon emission allowances, over a carbon tax because it is market-based and provides more “environmental certainty.”

While revenue for global technology services rose 8 percent and software rose 12 percent, hardware revenue fell 10 percent. Signed services contracts totaled $12.7 billion, down 4 percent, while short-term signings rose 13 percent to $6.1 billion.

IBM’s revenue outside the U.S., where the company generates 75 percent of its business, rose 10 percent, he said.

The fact that new contracts declined slightly during a quarter that tends to be down is actually “an achievement” given the economic conditions and the Olympics taking place during the period, Djurdjevic said.

For the third quarter, which ended Sept. 30, IBM posted earnings of $2.8 billion, or $2.05 per share, on revenue of $25.3 billion, which was up 5 percent from a year ago. The numbers were in line with the preannounced results released by the company last week. The company has nearly $10 billion in cash.

“That alone is an indicator for how overstated and exaggerated the pessimism on Wall Street is,” Djurdjevic said.

“All these companies are global companies and most of them are driving growth from overseas markets, and not everybody is as sick as Wall Street,” said Bob Djurdjevic, president of Annex Research.

The news pushed IBM’s share price up 2.4 percent in after-hours trade to $93.71, while AMD’s price jumped 10.4 percent to $4.55 and Google’s rose 10.2 percent to $389.15.

In particular, IBM’s mainframe revenues growing 25 percent is a very positive sign given the fact that banks and financial companies are major customers, he said.

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IBM reported a 20 percent rise in third-quarter earnings on strong software and services sales, and said it expects to meet its 2008 outlook despite the economic downturn that has companies curbing spending.

IBM, Google, and AMD posted positive earnings reports on Thursday, lifting their stock prices in after hours and providing hope that things won’t be as bad for the tech sector as some feared.

“This is a tough environment but we were ready for it,” IBM Chief Financial Officer Mark Loughridge said in a conference call.

Asked what would have to happen in order for IBM to miss its expectations, Loughridge said: “We would have to have major markets fall off much more substantially and…we would have to see a dramatic slowdown in our emerging countries, but we don’t see that.”

In a statement, IBM Chief Executive Sam Palmisano wrote: “Our results demonstrate that the combination of a steady base of recurring revenue and profits, a range of products and services that deliver value to clients worldwide, and a strong and flexible financial foundation give IBM a competitive edge in good times and tough times. These strengths along with our strategy to manage for productivity in major markets and to invest for growth in emerging countries have enabled IBM to thrive despite an economic environment that no one could have predicted.”

Loughridge cited IBM’s ongoing actions to cut spending and margin performance as reasons for executives being optimistic about meeting its full-year 2008 earnings outlook of $8.75 per share.

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At the same time, Google beat analyst expectations with third-quarter earnings per share of $4.92 on revenue of $4.04 billion, and AMD posted a significantly smaller net loss than expected at 11 cents.

Here’s the problem with so many tech CEOs these days. They think and speak in PR-scripted monotones and sound like Stepford-like robot clones. Honestly, I’d prefer to rip out my brains with a plastic fork than suffer through most of these gasbag deliveries. But it’s earnings time, and if you want to learn what these clowns are thinking, it’s a cross we must bear.

Yahoo made the right decision but it’s going to cost more than a few shekels. But instead of honestly addressing the renegotiated contract, Yang ran a bunch of business-speak jive about how wonderful this all is. Yeah, sure, Jerry. (At least his CFO allowed that there would be a near-term hit.)

I know this is a niggling detail but why can’t Yang just come right out and acknowledge the truth? Everybody knows what happened here. AT&T has long wanted to rewrite the terms of an agreement that was heavily weighted in Yahoo’s favor. Yahoo wanted to continue the deal, but AT&T wanted a fairer deal–or else it would walk. No big deal. That’s the nature of business.

But more to the point: a great corporate leader shoulders the responsibility for making tough decisions. But did Yang mention anything in his prepared comments about the 1,000 or so people Yahoo is planning to fire? Nope. Again, he left that one to his lieutenant–the news came 39 minutes into the conference call.

So, I’m sitting at my desk listening to the Yahoo conference call, and Jerry Yang is droning on about how the restructured deal with AT&T will work to the great benefit of both companies. Oh brother.