POLITICS BUZZ: State-funded Iranian news is reporting that a “cyber-terrorist group” known as Kasper Hauser have hacked Obama's Blackberry and are releasing its contents to the world. You can judge for yourself how much of a threat Kasper Hauser is posing to national security with their new book .

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The Best Links:

1. Buy ‘Obama’s Blackberry’ on Amazon
2. Kasper Hauser’s Website
3. Original Fox News Story
4. Original PressTV Story
5. Via Maximumfun.Org

TECH BUZZ: You can finally stop searching for a way to read Hebrew text on your Blackberry with this third-party app. Sorry to break the news, tech-savvy Hasids: God has an iPhone.

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The Best Links:

1. Jewberry - Davening on your Blackberry!
2. Gotta Have Faith (On Vibrate)
3. Pray by PDA

TECH BUZZ: Blackberry’s newest phone features a clickable touch screen. With all of RIM’s enterprise features — edit Excel spreadsheets! works with Enxchange! — and a nice bright screen, this looks like yet another iPhone killer.

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The Best Links:

1. Verizon Officially Debuts RIM BlackBerry Storm
2. Blackberry Storm Gets A Full Review From Gizmodo
3. Big Blackberry Storm Feature: The Clickable Screen
4. Blackberry Storm Teaser Commercial
5. Photos: Hands On With The Blackberry Storm

TECH BUZZ: Of 6500 professional men surveyed by Sheraton Hotels, 35 percent of them preferred their Blackberries to their wives. Immediately, the wives responded, “Well maybe if you’d learn how to use your thumbs at the same time in the bedroom , we wouldn’t have this problem!” (Ba dum bum!)

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The Best Links:

1. The Poll Results
2. Are Ladies Just As Addicted As Men?
3. A Psychologist Can Salvage Your Relationship: “Turn It Off.”
4. Personal Digital Assistants Vs. Private Displays Of Affection
5. Is Your BlackBerry Ruining Your Sex Life?

POLITICS BUZZ: He’s copped to not using and/or understanding the internet, but he did bring mobile email into existence. McCain’s top economic adviser, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, was asked what the candidate did as chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee that broadened his understand of the U.S.’s financial structure. “He did this,” Holtz-Eakin answered, lifting up his BlackBerry. “[Y]ou’re looking at the miracle John McCain helped create and that’s what he did.”

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1. “It is horribly sad and offensive that even John McCain’s advisors, who are supposed to help him win this dumb election, cannot resist making him look like an asshole.”
2. John McCain, Inventor of the BlackBerry
3. McCain Helped Create BlackBerry!

TECH BUZZ: The first pictures of an (apparently) functional version of Blackberry’s touch-screen device have shown up on the web. The Thunder is Blackberry’s response to the iPhone, and they’re hoping to make the touch screen typing experience way better than what Apple offers — the screen will provide tactile feedback when you press a key, and there’s a lot more screen real estate dedicated to the keyboard.

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The Best Links:

1. Exclusive First BlackBerry Thunder Pics!
2. The Blackberry Thunder Will Be Exclusive to Verizon
3. Wall Street Journal Says the BlackBerry Thunder Will Be Out by September

TECH BUZZ: BlackBerry announces a shiny new device. Known more prosaically as the BlackBerry 9000, the new smartphone sports a new, bigger screen and faster connection and processing speeds. No firm sales date yet, but it should be available sometime this summer.

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The Best Links:

1. Hands-On With the Faster BlackBerry Bold
2. Very early, Very Brief BlackBerry Bold Review
3. BlackBerry Bold — Official Site
4. Should Be Available “This Summer”
5. John Mayer Blogs about His Blackberry Bold
6. Bluetooth Headset-Wearing Douchebags Rejoice at the News
7. BlackBerry Finally Gets Bold
8. Like Magic, It Appeared at Midnight
9. Bold Announcement Comes Along With a $150 Million Developer Fund for New Apps

TECH BUZZ: Photos of the first RIM clamshell flip phone have been unveiled. It will be out by the end of 2008. A novel flip phone seems kind of oxymoronic, but that’s what this phone is being touted as.

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The Best Links:

1. The Clamshell Flip Phone Unveiled for the First Time
2. The Photo Gallery
3. New Shots with T-mobile Branding
4. Get the Specs Here
5. Comes with Accessories like “Anodized Urban Nomad Tool”