Although most of the people I work with carry the damn thing, I personally have no use at all for a Blackberry. The laptop and cell phone give me sufficient access to the world and, quite frankly, I really don’t need to improve people’s access to me. Given the choice I’d rather reduce it.

Anyway, that doesn’t mean I haven’t been following the Blackberry patent infringement case which is quite interesting and Dan Morgan argues why in the wake of this affair the US will need some patent reform. He may be right about that although I will argue that a reduced ability to patent new ideas will adversely affect investment in new technologies.