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Government By BlackBerry?
Over at the Washington Post's Story Lab, Michael S. Rosenwald is convinced that Washington is a BlackBerry town. "Everywhere you look in the region -- if you can take your eyes off your smartphone -- people seem to be on BlackBerrys," he writes. "But everywhere you look in other big cites -- such as New York -- people are on iPhones."
Blame it on the government, Rosenwald says. He declares "it's all BlackBerry --- largely for security reasons," and wonders whether "government's dominance in the BlackBerry world spread like a virus to other employers around the region that interact with bureaucrats."
What say you? Does BlackBerry rule the halls of government? Myself, I'm a committed Droid user.
Tom Shoop is vice president and editor in chief at Government Executive Media Group, where he oversees both print and online editorial operations. He started as associate editor of Government Executive magazine in 1989; launched the company’s flagship website, GovExec.com, in 1996; and was named editor in chief in 2007.
