With cell phones getting slimmer and slimmer, you might want to consider this story.

David Fitzherbert a British financial worker on skiing holiday in Switzerland nearly fell 700 feet to his death when he got trapped in an avalanche. The only thing saving his life was the extra 1/2 inches of his BlackBerry, which tucked into his breast pocket was just enough extra width to keep him lodged between two rocks.

Putting aside that he's rich and famous, Kevin Bacon has been really unlucky lately.

Last Thursday at 10:50am, a mugger grabbed Bacon's BlackBerry on the 53rd and 7th Avenue stop of the Manhattan subway. Bacon tried chasing after the guy, but lost him in the crush of the crowd.

Usually you can say, well at least nothing worse happened, but Bacon also had a fairly large amount of money invested with Bernie Madoff. This ain't his year. 

Apparently because there are only ten of them in the world.

To commemorate their 100th anniversary, London department store Selfridges commissioned 10 limited edition BlackBerry Bolds in pantone 109 yellow, the iconic color that's become Selfridges' signature. The pieces are individually numbered, have a leather back-plate, and also comes with VIP support for the store.

Via her official Twitter account, Disney star Selina Gomez has let it be known that her BlackBerry was stolen on april second. Because Twitter is Twitter this was orginally split up into two posts:

"someone stole my phone.. :( movie wrapped. Thank you Puerto Rico for another life-changing experience, but a special thanks to our PR fans! ... my phone :( r.i.p. blackberry" 

The Blackberry Bold is a hot topic for the wrong reason in the offices of NTT DoCoMo this week. The Japanese carrier launched the RIM smartphone about a week ago, and despite already selling 4,000 handsets has decided to pull the product, thanks to about 30 complaints from users that the keyboard area heats up while recharging.   

The secrets of Obama's new blackberry are finally out. Well, not really, but maybe you'll still be interested in checking out what the New Yorker suggests to be the complete function list to our presidents trusty Pall. Funny stuff, though not necessarily un-useful.

This is the kind of stunt that could only work in the freezing environment of a Canadian Winter. RIM's tribute ice sculpture to their own contribution to Canadian economy made it's debut at Ottawa's Winderlude festival, an annual February event centered around an ice rink celebrating all things below zero. 

Anyway, the Blackberry ice sculpture is on display until February 22 or until Ottawa experiences a heat wave... which ever happens first.