Obama's BlackBerry: Tiny Contact List, Dull Mail, No Fun

When President Obama first took office, he pressed hard to keep his beloved BlackBerry and ultimately won permission to carry a model with beefed-up security features. Turns out he didn’t really win much. Appearing on ABC’s “The View,” Obama said only 10 people have his number, and their email conversations are really boring. “I’ve got to admit, it’s no fun because they think that it’s probably going to be subject to the Presidential Records Act, so nobody wants to send me the real juicy stuff,” he said. Other tech notes from the interview: Obama said that the contents of the presidential iPod runs from Jay-Z to Maria Callas, and that “I don’t tweet on a regular basis….I think there’s an official president’s tweet, but some 20-year-old is doing a lot of the tweeting.”