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we got bruised berries hot cast made simple and no lie there's cake at the end I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update it's a grim day for blackberry maker research in motion in its earnings call the company gave some pretty bad news and it was worse than many expected blackberry 10 devices won't be ready until the first quarter of next year it was supposed to come out sometime before the holidays the company is also cutting 5,000 jobs almost a third of its employees it has to do something after suffering a heavy operating loss some see this as blackberry on its deathbed Apple quietly released a new standalone podcast app that doesn't require iTunes it gives you a way to find your favorite shows like cnet update outside of the typical ipod music app but some have found it to be not so simple to use if you're interested in trying out some other podcast apps be sure to check out downcast insta cast or stitcher radio which is like a Pandora for podcasts if dangerous weather conditions are heading your way your smartphone can tell you the National Weather Service is sending severe weather alert warnings to smartphones it'll look like a text message but it's not it uses GPS to send warnings only two people near the danger zone and it's not limited to whether other departments like Homeland Security and FEMA can also send threat alerts if you're interested in Google's new Nexus 7 tablet the 16 gig version for two hundred fifty dollars is being sold at gamestop and that means you can throw in some game or gadget trade-ins to lower the price you still have to head over to Google's Play Store though for the eight gig version and start saying goodbye to the blockbuster express DVD rental machines redbox bought the machines for a hundred million dollars and the brand new Android 4.1 operating system will not be certified to use flash flash has always been one of the big features that helped Android stand apart from Apple but adobe says it's not going to work on flash for mobile anymore everything is moving to html5 it's the five-year anniversary of the device that changed our world the iphone so happy birthday iPhone I remember your first year you know you weren't perfect with the 18 th networking you couldn't send photo texts my the junior memory was so tiny but you taught us concepts like swiping and double tapping and pinch and zoom and on the 3g you showed us apps and you made us so proud when you graduated the 3gs and finally did your first video recording and you also could cut and paste you were some trouble to deal with though at four with your awkward and tana face but then you made some new friends with verizon and sprint and you introduced us to a nice girl named Siri ah time does fly that's your tech news update for today for more in the stories in today show visit sina.com / update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey