I got up really early to watch the Oscar announcements this morning. OK, not as early as the folks in L.A. who had to do the nominee announcing, but early enough for me.
Mickey Rourke nominated for Best Actor in "The Wrestler." Wow. Somebody made some money in Vegas this morning on that action.
Somebody's also making some money on the new, super secret Obama BlackBerry.
Yes, boys and girls, our new president isn't going to have his technological tether taken away after all!
People thought I was crazy saying he should be allowed to keep it.
It's dangerous, they said.
People will see his secret communications!
Foreign governments will monitor his every word!
Well, apparently the National Security Agency (NSA) thinks differently, and has come to Obama's BlackBerry rescue just in the nick of time. Marc Ambinder writes in his Atlantic political blog that the NSA "added to a standard blackberry a super-encryption package... and Obama WILL be able to use it... still for routine and personal messages."
He gets to escape the presidential bubble via technology, after all.
Scarlett Johansson, stand by for some more of those late-night missives!
With regards to instant messaging... well, sorry, White House staffers, you'll have to leave that GTalk and AOL Instant Messaging at home.
As to my own BlackBerryness, my recent TurboTech podcast went through all the fineries of why I went in the direction of the BlackBerry Bold: Download.
And very soon, Scott and I will also have a new TurboTech episode about the impact of social media on Inauguration Day and the technological proclivities of the new Obama Administration.
— Todd "Turbo" Watson, blogger for IBM's On Demand Business Website
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