The cell phone thing is already out of hand. I use a Blackberry that belongs to my employer and a few days ago I happened to notice a new icon that had appeared for Bing search engine. After questioning, I was informed that Blackberry had struck a deal with Microsoft’ and the “upgrade” had been automatically pushed to all their devices.

We’re not even talking about the wireless carrier here; RIM was able to access my business phone (which contains confidential and frequently sensitive emails) without permission and install unwanted software without my consent or knowledge.

Think about the implications of that. If I owned the company, I’d be having some second thoughts about using Blackberries.