Will your cell phone dream of electric sheep?

With the advent of the iPhone, cell phones (in America) are finally stepping into the 21st century. This means a whole new generation of programming to turn these devices into something useful. The sale of the airwaves to Verizon and AT&T was a first step.

Next come the new platforms. Some say Google's open-source Android will do for cell phones what Windows did for personal computers.

Newspaper owners should be paying close attention to all of this.