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Jan 13 2009 8:41am EDT

First Bytes: Obama Turns to Tech

President-elect Obama is expected to name former Harvard Law School classmate and current technology advisor Julius Genachowski to head the F.C.C. [WSJ]

Forrester Research's tech spending predictions fall 6 percent for 2009. [Reuters]

Venturebeat expects Palm will play the phone game by offering its new Pre for $149. [Venturebeat]

Cnet lists BlackBerry-like devices that would be secure enough for the Commander in Chief to use, so that Obama won't have to quit his BlackBerry addiction. [Cnet]
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Laura Rich is a co-founder of Recessionwire, which provides news, advice, perspective and humor about the recession and the recovery.

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