On Monday, September 27th, RIM made an announcement that we had been expecting for some time. They unveiled their new tablet. We had speculated a couple months ago that this was coming and had thought we might see them name it the BlackPad. Fortunately, they went another direction, naming it the PlayBook.
I have to admit, I was surprised at what I saw with the device. RIM seems to have fallen a little behind the times of late with their hardware and lagging OS, but the PlayBook seems like a pretty nice leap ahead for them. The OS is not your typical BlackBerry operating system. This device will employ the BlackBerry Tablet OS designed and created by QNX which was recently acquired by RIM.
After only a couple weeks of having been deployed, the facebook “like” button is now reportedly on more than 100,000 sites across the web. It appears that facebook’s power as one of the most trafficked sites on the web as well as the fact that it has over 400 million members are key reasons that people are adopting it as a part of their websites. When you click on a website’s “like” button, it posts a link notifying anyone that might see it, that you like the site, page, or item that the “like” button is attached to.
