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An aggressive "buy-one-get-one" campaign by Verizon Wireless helped RIM's BlackBerry Curve overtake Apple's iPhone to become the best-selling consumer smartphone in the first quarter of 2009, according to a report by The NPD Group. RIM's consumer smartphone market share increased 15 percent to nearly 50 percent of the smartphone market in Q1 2009 versus the previous quarter, as Apple's and Palm's share both fell 10 percent.

The Presidential Blackberry. Wouldn't you love to get a glimpse of what's on it? That's precisely the problem, former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Joe Hagin told Murdok. While President Bush travels generally incommunicado--that is, unthinkably for most us, sans mobile phone--the President-Elect is in a very public argument for retention of his pre-election smart phone.

The new BlackBerry storm mobile device hit store shelves on Friday and sold over 100,000 units over the weekend according to InformationWeek. Not all of us are so eager to plop down our hard earned money without getting to know a device a little better though. Thankfully, there are plenty of people to review it and give us walkthroughs of the device's capabilities, five of which are the subjects of this article.

The nickname "CrackBerry" seems more appropriate than ever today as not one, but two major companies have turned their attention to the device.  Google Mobile App for BlackBerry comes from one corner, while a search deal is reportedly in the works between Microsoft and RIM.

We all know that BlackBerry users can become just a tad bit absorbed in their devices, but that trait aside, they’ll now have less of an excuse for being late - Superpages.com just launched a local mobile application specifically for the BlackBerry.

Who needs a birth certificate when you've got Twitter, Flickr, and Ustream to document the blessed event? Who's ready for Birthing 2.0?

Since servers for the addictive Blackberry wireless mail service reside in places like the United States, some government workers in France have been told to eschew using those devices.

 Blackberry's recent "Share Your Stories" campaign was inspiring for me, though probably not in the way they intended.  I actually love my Blackberry, but their entire "Share your Story" campaign just struck me as lacking in any of the lessons many other marketers have learned about Web 2.0 marketing and what works in social media.