Is Obama able to keep his BlackBerry...!!!

caption: A Secret Service agent moves to retrieve the president-elect's BlackBerry at Reagan National Airport on January 16, 2009.

(Credit: AFP PHOTO/Mandel NGAN)

According to a source, it is heard that Blackberry's gadgets are Obama's favorite gadget, and he was rarely without it during the 2008 campaign. In 2001, George Bush famously gave up e-mail, and there was plenty of speculation that Obama would too, either for privacy or open-government reasons. Last week, they suggested the Sectera Edge as a secure PDA-phone, it's rated for SECRET data and TOP SECRET voice, that might do the trick.

Now we're hearing from a report on The Atlantic's Web site that Obama will be able to keep his BlackBerry after all. Apparently it's been outfitted with encrypted software secure enough for routine personal messages, meaning, if this report is well, there will no Microsoft Windows Mobile in the president's immediate future.

We're still waiting, by the way, to hear back from the National Security Agency. They said they'd be happy to entertain questions from us, and it's been over a week. We're not holding our breath.