Briefly Awesome 18: Detroit Needs a Hero - Video

Christina Warren and Dan Benjamin discuss the latest news in smartphones, the power of the cloud, Apple, and streaming media across your home. Also: Crowd-funded Robocop statues.

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Nokia admits it rejected Android; eyes "billions" in revenue from WP7 deal - GSMA Mobile Business Briefing Who's buying the Verizon iPhone - Apple 2.0 - Fortune Tech New MobileMe to Offer Wireless Access to iTunes Library? - Mac Rumors Verizon iPhone 4 case compatibility: a brief round-up | iLounge News HANDS ON: Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 A gift for movie lovers: Criterion Collection joins Hulu Plus « Hulu Blog ZFS+rsync = Time Machine in the Cloud | Strongspace Blog Follow Up of the Day - The Daily What HOW TO: Stream Your Media to Every Device in the House GALAXY Tab 10.1 - Samsung Mobile Sony Ericsson - Corporate - Products - Phoneportfolio - Specification - Xperia™ PLAY Palm USA | HP Veer Phone | Features, Details TouchPad | Laptop TouchPad, TouchPad Computer Tablet PC Nikon COOLPIX P300 Camera NoteSlate /// intuitively simple monochrome paper alike tablet device The King of Limbs : Where are you? Dell's 2011 smartphone and tablet lineup leaked: Android Ice Cream, WP7 sliders, and a slate running Windows 8 -- Engadget Steve Jobs, Eric Schmidt and Mark Zuckerberg to Meet With President Obama Thursday in San Francisco - Political Punch Google will launch iTunes music store competitor with upgrade to Android | Technology | guardian.co.uk Mac Growth Outpaces Market for 19th Straight Quarter | John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD Posterous by the Numbers: 12.3M Blogs and 9.2M Monthly Visitors | Liz Gannes | NetworkEffect | AllThingsD IBM Supercomputer Watson Wins "Jeopardy" | Arik Hesseldahl | NewEnterprise | AllThingsD Big Rumors About Little iPhone, MobileMe Revamp: Apple News, Tips and Reviews « Rackspace Cloud Revenue Keeps Rising, Tops $100M: Cloud Computing News «

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