He's kept it no secret that if you want to take his Blackberry away, you'll have to pry it from his cold, dying hand, but now Barack Obama is telling Barbara Walters that him getting to keep his Blackberry as president is for your own good: 

It's not a 100% clear, but contrary to a slew of articles out today I believe the answer is actually yes. 

You see because of something called the Presidential Records Act, which requires that all of the President's correspondences to be transparent to the public, his legal advisers are telling him that he probably won't be allowed to indulge his Blackberry addiction for the next four years.

It's one of those typical good news/bad news things. Yes RIM is delaying the Blackberry Storm's November 14th release date because of a software glitch, but tipsters are also insisting that they've decided take the expected $499 price tag of the Blackberry Storm and lop $300 off it. 

It looks like there's a new cell phone king in America, and a new first runner up in the international cell phone market.

Samsung has finally overtaken Motorola, as the number one cell phone supplier domestically, taking 22.4% of the American market share. Motorola, which had been milking the slow death of the Motorola RAZR for years fell to 21.1; a swan dive from their 32.7% share of the market a year ago. 

The day everyone's been waiting for has finally arrived - the much delayed is Blackberry Bold is finally being released today on AT&T's website.

(What did you think there was some other anticipated news story going on today?) 

Well it looks like the Blackberry Bold, the cell phone equivalent of the album Chinese Democracy is finally going to be released on AT&T November 4th for $299.

The Bold, first announced in May, was supposed to come out in June, but a series of delays tied to this being Blackberry's first 3G, kept pushing the release date back further and further.