Obama says he will keep BlackBerry – here’s how, perhaps

Despite questions about how the BlackBerry can comply, given Research in Motion’s security level, with the 1978 Presidential Records Act, President-elect Obama says he will keep the device.

Having just gotten done reading James Bamford’s “Shadow Factory,” where he described how RIM reached a “work-around” with the Indian equivalent of the National Security Agency, here’s a tentative prediction.

Somebody – perhaps Narus or Verint of warrantless wiretapping assistance fame – will put a Top-Secret level splitter inside the device.

Google iPhone knockoff just around the corner — a skeptical look

The gPhone, powered by T-Mobile, is just around the corner, priced to move, and slap Apple in the face, at $199. The phone is platformed on Google’s open-code Android software.

The one critique so far is that it lacks the iPhone’s attractiveness quotient.

And, as far as slaps in the face, Research in Motion and the Blackberry may be in Google’s sights more than Apple.

Flip side of skepticism on gPhone?

Will the Android program, like Chrome, turn out to be another version of Google as Big Brother?

Let me put it this way — I wouldn’t bet against that.

Flip side of skepticism No. 2?

Google doesn’t always get things right. And doesn’t always do a good job of fixing what it didn’t get right in the first place.