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After Apple executive Tim Cook hinted about thinly-veiled threats of legal action over similarities between the Palm Pre and the iPhone, like multitouch and touchscreen gesture technology, Palm has just sent a clear message:

“Palm has a long history of innovation that is reflected in our products and robust patent portfolio, and we have long been recognized for our fundamental patents in the mobile space. If faced with legal action, we are confident that we have the tools necessary to defend ourselves” Lynn Fox, spokesperson, Palm.

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Well-done, Stanford students!  Students from Stanford’s Fall 1008 iPhone class CS193P (iPhone Application Programming) released a nice batch of apps that are now available or will be soon for the iPhone.

According to the the iPhone class students' site, all of these apps were final projects with the exception of Stress Bust, iDiscover, and Abodi, which were developed by CS193P students outside CS193P class.

Stress Bust
Stress Buster provides a video of soothing ocean waves, assisting the user in relaxing through a progressive muscle squeezing up through the body. pending App Store approval.

Qingwen
Qingwen is focused and streamlined Chinese-English and English-Chinese dictionary designed with the Chinese reader in mind. Lookup is meant to be fast and easy. Free.

iDiscover
iDiscover lets you discover new articles, videos, and applications customized to your interests. You and your friends can also easily share contents. get it on the App Store.

Heydar
Heydar is a fun new way to meet people. Get started by taking your own headshot. Then view headshots of nearby Heydar users.  pending App Store approval.

Site Saver
Site Saver allows you to save websites locally on your iPhone or iPod Touch. Save online references to train schedules, recipes, or product reviews to your device on the go. $2.99.

HaveASec
This is the useful application to create a short survey or poll to send out to your friends. get it on the App Store.

Abodi
Abodi allows you to search listings on Craigslist and save your favorite results for viewing access on the go. to be submitted by 01/26/09.

Air Guitar
Air Guitar provides all the fun of rocking out with none of the talent  required to play a real instrument. get it on the App Store.

Stanford iPhone Class Apps via TechCrunch

3GWeek posted a report about of Apple upcoming planto distribute iPhone 3G in Indonesia, the largest country in Southeast Asia region. Its tipster found a dedicated page for iPhone 3G in Apple Store Indonesia online site.

Previously, 3Gweek reported that Apple most likely has inked the agreement with Telkomsel, the country’s largest operator, to distribute the iPhone 3G in Indonesia.

Indonesia, the 5th largest country in the world in term of population, has more than 120 million cellular subscribers.

So far, Indonesia itself isn't appeared yet in the iPhone country list.

UPDATE (1):Telkomsel accepting seemingly employee-only preorders for iPhone 3G in Indonesia through its site:  http://www.telkomsel.com/tridentclm/ (Thanks, @aulia!)

UPDATE (2):Telkomsel Manager Corporate Communications, Suryo Hadiyanto, just informed me the offiicial URL for iPhone 3G preorder: http://www.telkomsel.com/iphone -- just need KTP (no need NIK CSDM!)

Just this last weekend there was the addition of not one but two utilities that enable TV output support for the iPhone. These little rays of sunshine wont be found in the App Market anytime soon, instead you have to have a jailbroken iPhone and search them out in Cydia.

The TVOut Project is an open source project brought to you by Backgrounder developer Ashikase. Released into the Big Boss repository you are now able to pick out the applications individually. Though this is available it is not without a few limitations, which is why Screensplitr comes into play.

Screensplitr is the other of the two applications that were released into the wild last weekend. This utility allows you to have full video mirroring which is available for the entire OS. This method however has a much slower framerate of only a few frames per second, which makes it very noticeable.  Just tap the icon to switch it on and tap again to turn it off. These utilities are really very fun to play around with so we suggest trying it out if you have the right cable at home.

Via Arstechnica