Blackberry

Company insider Thorsten Heins has been named president and CEO of Research In Motion, Inc. (RIM), the company that markets the Blackberry, said Paul Carpino, RIM's VP of investor relations, on Jan. 23 in a conference call. Heins said RIM is currently in the process of recruiting a new CMO.

For the past eight years I have unsuccessfully tried to convince my mother to buy a new cell phone. Don't go back and reread what you just read (yes, eight years). My mother's Nokia is of the Zack Morris variety; it lacks a flip screen, a keyboard, a color screen, and it does not allow for Internet access.

All aboard the tablet bandwagon! Following in the footsteps of Apple's iPad, a BlackBerry tablet and a host of similar Android-based devices - by Dell, LG, Motorola and others -- are set to hit the market.