FREE the ObamaBerry!

That was the latest cry on the Internet this past week as reports came in that the US President-elect may have to give up his BlackBerry for national security reasons once he is in office. Many Netizens were sorry that Mr Barack Obama will soon be cut off from his private wired world.

It is indeed ironic that the most tech-savvy presidential candidate - who reached out to voters through social networks, blasted his speeches on YouTube and raised record sums of funds online - will have to relinquish his trusty communication device in the White House.

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